Gee Bee R2

[Flying Farm Kid]

This is my brothers design he is just using my account to post it.
This is my first attempt at a master-series style aircraft, I have made a couple of other planes before, but none in cad. It's going to be a 50 inch span and run a power pack C and will be fully foamboard apart from a few 3d printed pieces. Hopefully by the end of this summer we will have a functioning Gee Bee!

Ps - if anyone knows of a software that can unwrap skins from Onshape, please tell me

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

As you can see I already have most of the Cad done - mainly waiting on foamboard now.

 

[bisco]

that's gonna be a beauty!

 

[Mr Man]

Do you have plans yet?

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

Do you have plans yet?

Not yet

 

[Mr Man]

Keep us updated

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

Cad is completely finished, just have to unwrap the skins and wait for erc parts

 

[Mr Man]

Nice!

 

[vhandon]

I used the Pepakura Designer once. I believe it was the demo of version 5. It worked out ok.

Pepakura Designer – Craft Your Imagination – Pepakura Designer: The Gateway from 3D to Paper Artistry

tamasoft.co.jp

I also found this one but have not tried it.

Ultimate Unwrap 3D - UV Mapping Software

Ultimate Unwrap 3D, UV Mapping. Ultimate Unwrap 3D is a standalone UV mapping software for unfolding and unwrapping 3D models.

www.unwrap3d.com

I ended up switching to Fusion 360 which has a built in sheet metal fold/unfold feature.

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

I used the Pepakura Designer once. I believe it was the demo of version 5. It worked out ok.

Pepakura Designer – Craft Your Imagination – Pepakura Designer: The Gateway from 3D to Paper Artistry

tamasoft.co.jp

I also found this one but have not tried it.

Ultimate Unwrap 3D - UV Mapping Software

Ultimate Unwrap 3D, UV Mapping. Ultimate Unwrap 3D is a standalone UV mapping software for unfolding and unwrapping 3D models.

www.unwrap3d.com

I ended up switching to Fusion 360 which has a built in sheet metal fold/unfold feature.

We have tried pepakura and fusion and cannot get them to work could you share how you did it?

 

[vhandon]

We have tried pepakura and fusion and cannot get them to work could you share how you did it?

I honestly do not remember how I got pepakura to work. I remember not loving the results so I tried Fusion instead.
Here is the video I used to learn how to do the unfolding.

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

I honestly do not remember how I got pepakura to work. I remember not loving the results so I tried Fusion instead.
Here is the video I used to learn how to do the unfolding.

Ok thanks

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

Alright guys, it's been a while but I think I got pepekura to work, I have been testing it on a little mig15 project and it seems to be going well so far. Hopefully I'll have more Gee Bee progress soon, but the mig is what is being worked on rn. Let me know If you want to see a thread on it.

 

[Mr NCT]

Alright guys, it's been a while but I think I got pepekura to work, I have been testing it on a little mig15 project and it seems to be going well so far. Hopefully I'll have more Gee Bee progress soon, but the mig is what is being worked on rn. Let me know If you want to see a thread on it.

Absolutely would love to see your progress, specially how you're using pepekura.

 

[Flying Farm Kid]

I just posted a thread on the mig so you can go check that out.