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NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

Interesting find! Thanks!

Regards, Wil Taylor

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RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

Not cad program site... cad program article, thanks for the mislead.

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

you can just click the link down the bottom to download it...

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

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That's what I did... not into aircraft, but seems like a really neat program.

Dik

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

This is neat, but... "Modeling typically begins by importing a .jpg file of a target plane's top and side views."

Seems like an odd approach to aircraft design, at least it does from a structural perspective.  Sounds like more of a reverse engineering tool.  Or maybe it makes sense for use with conceptual aero/cfd models to fill in the rest?  

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

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I've designed nose tetherings for 747's (Boeing doesn't recommend, but they have information for it) and that's about as close to aircraft design I've come... done a bunch of hangars, pavements, elevated loading gates, etc... I'd likely over design the aircraft so badly that it would never fly, anyway...

I figured, since it came from NASA, that there would be some relevance... but, I honestly don't know what's involved with aircraft design.

Dik

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

No offense intended.  Its a good post and a neat program.  

I'm just wondering why NASA is using tax dollars to create what basically looks like a reverse engineering tool.  To my eyes, this would be a great tool for someone in a developing economy to scab together knockoffs of popular small aircraft.  On the other hand, it could be pretty useful for home builders as well.

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

For giggles... other free CAD SW packages...

Google SketchUp...http://sketchup.google.com/download/

DS DraftSight free 2D CAD SW download...
http://www.3ds.com/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/

Solidedge free 2D CAD SW download...
http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/products/velocity/solidedge/free2d/index.shtml
 

Regards, Wil Taylor

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RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site

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Young Turk...
No offense taken... didn't read you note in any negative sense...

Dik

RE: NASA Aircraft Design CAD Program Site


"I'm just wondering why NASA is using tax dollars to create what basically looks like a reverse engineering tool.  To my eyes, this would be a great tool for someone in a developing economy to scab together knockoffs of popular small aircraft.  On the other hand, it could be pretty useful for home builders as well. "

How many great aircraft have started on a napkin, or from a sketch.

My A/C design course included lots of looking at 3 views of other A/C.

Raymer's Aircraft design, a conceptual approach has a few examples, config is roughed out in sketches. I'm sure a scanned sketch is not the only way to start a model in there as well.

 

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