Start UP! - a FREE 3D printable airplane

[Dr. Looping Looie]

I detached the motor and went slope soaring! Works much better than I expected!

 

[Dr. Looping Looie]

New upgrade:

A 3D printed foldable propeller. It worked very nice and actually increased gliding performance, especially at high speed.

It survived a few flights with no problems, but today, it randomly exploded, but the plane itself landed safely without damage.

 

[gerhard_the_great]

Hi, Great model! I printed out all the fuselage pieces and that went great but I got stuck with the rear canopy. Cura says there are bits missing! Any ideas?

 

[Dr. Looping Looie]

Hi, Great model! I printed out all the fuselage pieces and that went great but I got stuck with the rear canopy. Cura says there are bits missing! Any ideas?

Maybe surface mode is not active. Does the 3D model appear correctly in the preview?

 

[jpot1]

Cura says that but it printed fine for me.

 

[gerhard_the_great]

When I open the model in cura a message popup "The highlighted areas indicate either missing or extraneous surfaces. Fix your model and open it again into Cura." I'm using 4.13.1. I'm sure it's something small. It's weird though I opened up the fuselage in Simplified 3D and managed to get awesome prints with a great surface result.

 

[gerhard_the_great]

here's a couple of pics! I did the free eclipson model a as well.

 

[gerhard_the_great]

Would it be possible to add your g-code files with the other files? I'm not getting the slicer going. It's easier for me to just edit the g-code files with my printer settings and print out the parts that give hassles. It will be much apprciated! Thank you!

 

[Marťan]

I am currently designing a beginner friendly 3D pritable airplane. It can be printed from PLA and lightweight PLA. You can already download a few parts, and when I finish new parts, I will add them. That way, you will have a new plane by christmas. Think of it like some kind of advent calendar, but not strictly daily.

It comes with two different wings, one with dihedral and without ailerons and one with ailerons for speedier flying. There is also a detachable landing gear so you can hand launch and belly land if there is no paved runway.

It is also easy to print and to build and does not require carbon fiber, screws or magnets. All you need is 2-4 9gramm servos and Electronics in the range of A-F-Pack. maximum motor diameter is 28mm. Use A- pack if you print out of light filament and F-Pack if you print out of standard PLA.

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The first parts already are already done:

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You can download the files here, just click on the section in the discription and it should download:


General instructions for printing my airplanes are in the attached files section.


Have fun!

I just assembled my (your first rough v-tailed powered glider... First fly and first crush, not experienced flyer. Broken left wing. Realisation: my plane is too heavy and battery 2S not powerful enough to keep it in the air... It was a prototype. Roughly assembler to see it. Fuselage of PLA, wings LW PLA.
I have to learn how to print with LW PLA to make it light ...
- still love these smooth lines!

 

[Baron VonHelton]

I spy with my little eye........IL2 Sturmovik, WW1 version!!

 

[Marťan]

I am currently designing a beginner friendly 3D pritable airplane. It can be printed from PLA and lightweight PLA. You can already download a few parts, and when I finish new parts, I will add them. That way, you will have a new plane by christmas. Think of it like some kind of advent calendar, but not strictly daily.

It comes with two different wings, one with dihedral and without ailerons and one with ailerons for speedier flying. There is also a detachable landing gear so you can hand launch and belly land if there is no paved runway.

It is also easy to print and to build and does not require carbon fiber, screws or magnets. All you need is 2-4 9gramm servos and Electronics in the range of A-F-Pack. maximum motor diameter is 28mm. Use A- pack if you print out of light filament and F-Pack if you print out of standard PLA.

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The first parts already are already done:

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You can download the files here, just click on the section in the discription and it should download:


General instructions for printing my airplanes are in the attached files section.


Have fun!

Hi, I have built the first generation trainer and naturally crashed on first takeoff
Overweight and small 2S battery didn't helped to keep in the air.... Broked wings and some repairable cracks on fuselage.
Is it possible to get files on your curved non aileron wings as on your pictures?
Thks?
Martin/ Montréal QC
martin.pernicka@gmail.com

 

[Marťan]

I am currently designing a beginner friendly 3D pritable airplane. It can be printed from PLA and lightweight PLA. You can already download a few parts, and when I finish new parts, I will add them. That way, you will have a new plane by christmas. Think of it like some kind of advent calendar, but not strictly daily.

It comes with two different wings, one with dihedral and without ailerons and one with ailerons for speedier flying. There is also a detachable landing gear so you can hand launch and belly land if there is no paved runway.

It is also easy to print and to build and does not require carbon fiber, screws or magnets. All you need is 2-4 9gramm servos and Electronics in the range of A-F-Pack. maximum motor diameter is 28mm. Use A- pack if you print out of light filament and F-Pack if you print out of standard PLA.

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The first parts already are already done:

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You can download the files here, just click on the section in the discription and it should download:


General instructions for printing my airplanes are in the attached files section.


Have fun!

Hey sorry for my first messy message - added bunch of pictures not in subjects...
Possible to remove now???
Any help here??? Thks!!!

 

[gerhard_the_great]

What software do you use to create your files?

 

[AIRFORGE]

Hey sorry for my first messy message - added bunch of pictures not in subjects...
Possible to remove now???
Any help here??? Thks!!!

Yes. You can edit the post and add/remove as needed.

 

[Marťan]

The last few days were extremely busy. Lots of printing and test fitting, but I am very happy so far. This is by far the most complex plane I ever did, it consumed hundreds of hours of CAD design and I even spend two evenings running vortex lattice simulations to calculate the optimal CG and angles of attack. So of course I have extremely high hopes, and Im very excited. Tomorrow I need to print the landing gear and install the electronics.

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Exiting looking good! Keep us posted! I want one!🙂

 

[Dr. Looping Looie]

@gerhard_the_great I sliced the surface parts for you with the Ender 3 preset for LW PLA. I dont like to add the Gcode to my files because every printer and material prefence is different. Cura 1.13 had a bug that made slicing surface models impossible. This bug is now removed. I use 1.11 and it works great. I use Fusion 360 for my 3D models.

@Marťan As I said in post #25, the curved wing did not fly at all. Its best to print it entirely out of light PLA for the best flight characteristics.

 

[Bo123]

I went through the order process . Silly me.

 

[Bo123]

Hey the files are not the type I can open with my slicer, can I have the STLs please?

 

[gerhard_the_great]

@gerhard_the_great I sliced the surface parts for you with the Ender 3 preset for LW PLA. I dont like to add the Gcode to my files because every printer and material prefence is different. Cura 1.13 had a bug that made slicing surface models impossible. This bug is now removed. I use 1.11 and it works great. I use Fusion 360 for my 3D models.

@Marťan As I said in post #25, the curved wing did not fly at all. Its best to print it entirely out of light PLA for the best flight characteristics.

Thank you @Dr. Looping Looie, I really appreciate it!

 

[gerhard_the_great]

@gerhard_the_great I sliced the surface parts for you with the Ender 3 preset for LW PLA. I dont like to add the Gcode to my files because every printer and material prefence is different. Cura 1.13 had a bug that made slicing surface models impossible. This bug is now removed. I use 1.11 and it works great. I use Fusion 360 for my 3D models.

@Marťan As I said in post #25, the curved wing did not fly at all. Its best to print it entirely out of light PLA for the best flight characteristics.

So i loaded Cura 11 and it works! I am printing the canopy as we speak!