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  1. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Lets do the elevator next. Its basically a repeat of the stab itself.
  2. BalsaDust

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    You will love it. I have not been disappointed with any twisted hobbies plane I have flown.
  3. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    So change of plans on the stab. Decided it would be better if it was done more truss like. Was easy enough. Just deleted the mirrors and extrusions and modified my original sketch.
  4. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Note that I have only been drawing one half of the stab the entire time. H7- Lets start making actual parts. Use the extrude tool to extrude the LE and TE parts and set to new body. H8- Remember after the first extrude Fusion will automatically turn the sketch off so we need to go back and...
  5. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Lets get back to this project. First off as I had said before be sure you have created a second save point for your project now that the solid model is complete. So lets start with the tail bits as they are pretty simple. H1- I have just sketched on the bottom of the horizontal stab solid. I...
  6. BalsaDust

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    Yeah this kit currently is a tank. the box with everything in it weighs 5 pounds. I know not all of it will stay but i think if built bone stock after all the electronics went in it would be pushing 7ish or more pounds. I plan to remove a lot of weight. Would be nice to get it to be right at 5...
  7. BalsaDust

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    Couple things followed me home this afternoon.
  8. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Will get back to the tutorial with the ugly stick here soon. Got side tracked working on the solid model for a different flavor.
  9. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    This is where I got it from. It is an AutoDesk product which autoCAD is...
  10. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Go for it. It's quite fun and rewarding once you figure it out.
  11. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Once you get started in it, it becomes pretty straight forward. I'm to the point now that if im not sure how to do something i can look it up on youtube and generally don't have to watch the entire video, rather just enough to point me where to look.
  12. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Last bit of advice at this point before we go to the rest of the design. In the browser expand the bodies tab. Right click on the word bodies and create a new group. then right click on that new group and rename as you see fit. I named it Solids. Now all the bodies that have been created you can...
  13. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Last thing to do and the Solid model is complete. AF1 First go ahead and turn on the work plane that was created to do the wingtip outline. Sketch out the aileron and in this case I'm gonna go ahead and do flaps as well. You can set the sizes of it all however you would like. I set 3mm gap...
  14. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    I was wrong decided to get the rest of the solid model finished up today. Here we will use a new command to help in doing the wing tip shape. Tristock pic. It got inserted at the end of this group. Basically just sketch onto the wing tip and draw a simple triangle with a 45 deg bevel. Extrude...
  15. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Next lets fix the wing. WE1 I don't like the wing sitting slightly proud of the fuse like that. Would rather it be a nice smooth transition. WE2 under the sketch browser find the original wing profile sketch. You can right click on it and click edit sketch. WE3 Now I forgot to do it before...
  16. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Ok first I think I'm going to stop inserting full images as I feel it's cluttering things up. If yall would prefer I still do just let me know and I will change back. Lets now address an item I forgot in after doing the fuse solid and that is the firewall. We need to add some right thrust. So...
  17. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now lets extrude one half of each part. Note in the previous picture the arrow wanted to extrude down so I had to type in -6 to go up. Also note in this picture since it sees the fuse there as soon as I change it to a negative number it auto changes the operation to cut. For this I do not...
  18. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now for the Horizontal stab and elevator. Lets sketch on the bottom of the fuse solid and project that outline using construction lines. Now start sketching the outline with the line tool. We are only drawing half of the stab so when you select the line tool go hover over the projected line...
  19. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now onto the vertical stab. I went ahead and projected the top and rear profiles of the fuse. I did them as construction lines but it really doesn't matter for this one. Next I first use the line tool draw the bottom of the vertical which will stay right on the projected line since I did it as...
  20. BalsaDust

    Airplane Design Fusion 360

    Now you can finish the sketch and start to extrude. for the first action we will select the rib profile, use "symmetric" as the direction, "all" as the extent type, and "cut" as the operation. This will cut through everything currently visible in the path. Now we have a nice wing saddle cut...
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