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Blended wing bodies in Freecad

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lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 05/10/2018 at 07:401 Comment

Got a somewhat acceptable wing by creating 4 profile sketches, then lofting them. Freecad can't create a solid from a surface, so you have to create 2D slices for the lofting operation, with matching curve & line segments. Freecad did manage to interpolate the sketches into a smooth curve. Suspect this process would be much easier to tweek & give smoother results if it was built up from equations rather than paw sketching, but the reference design is going to change. The automated version would have to use a constant number of line segments for each profile sketch instead of curves.

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pmmspace wrote 09/14/2018 at 17:47 point

What was the wingspan of your render? Did you find an official source for the wingspan?

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