Designing a plane, wanting to do so in Draftsight
I am starting an ambitious design project for a dual build project. By that I mean that there will be 2 airplanes with very much in common. Common fuses, engine nacelles and the root sections of the wings with a common plan form (but different airfoils). One to be RC and one to be CL (a rather large Cl).
I have made two 1/2 scale drawings the old fashion way with pencil and paper. But I would really prefer to use Draftsight. I have installed it and downloaded the GETTING-STARTED-GUIDE, some videos. Still struggling to define the drawing boundaries.
The plane(s). Tri motor bi planes. 78" upper wing span 72" lower span. 10" chords for a total of 1500" square. Power three .25s two strokes.
The drawings I have made are really crude as I could not scan anything that big and the only way I could take a picture was to trace over everything with a felt tip marker.
Setting up my drawing boundaries in Draftsight is giving me fits.
Well as crude as the drawings are I will post them. This design is going to under go some major changes.
Ken