jon.harman
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Back in April when we went into lockdown I started a blog on my website, www.rc3dprint.com/blog walking through how to design a Cessna 337 for 3Dprinting. I have been asked on another thread to do another tutorial. I have a quiet few weeks at the day job so I thought I would oblige!
This time we are going to build a Rutan design. With so many amazing aircraft out there by this design legend it was tough to settle on one. I have chosen to do the Quickie, a lightweight, single-seat (originaly), taildragger with a tandem wing arrangement. The first design was drawn up in 1977 with a 2 seat version to follow later on. The aircraft was a gem, cruising faster than a Cessna 150 with considerably better fuel efficiency, around 100 miles per gallon.
The last time I did this I presented screencasts of what I was doing but without commentary - this time, I have included a commentary of what I am doing, the videos are in real time so they are going to be longer but hopefully a bit easier to follow.
Follow this link to the blog post. Or this link to go straight to the screencast on YouTube.
As with last time, we start by positioning and calibrating the canvases, side, from, and top view. In this episode I have then carried on until we have a general outline of the fuselage and vertical stab. To get the far I have only had to use the sketch, sweep and split functions. Watch the screencast to see how.
If you find the tutorials useful, leave a comment and hit subscribe so you don't miss out on further instalments in the series.
This time we are going to build a Rutan design. With so many amazing aircraft out there by this design legend it was tough to settle on one. I have chosen to do the Quickie, a lightweight, single-seat (originaly), taildragger with a tandem wing arrangement. The first design was drawn up in 1977 with a 2 seat version to follow later on. The aircraft was a gem, cruising faster than a Cessna 150 with considerably better fuel efficiency, around 100 miles per gallon.
The last time I did this I presented screencasts of what I was doing but without commentary - this time, I have included a commentary of what I am doing, the videos are in real time so they are going to be longer but hopefully a bit easier to follow.
Follow this link to the blog post. Or this link to go straight to the screencast on YouTube.
As with last time, we start by positioning and calibrating the canvases, side, from, and top view. In this episode I have then carried on until we have a general outline of the fuselage and vertical stab. To get the far I have only had to use the sketch, sweep and split functions. Watch the screencast to see how.
If you find the tutorials useful, leave a comment and hit subscribe so you don't miss out on further instalments in the series.