How to creat an airfoil with solidworks???
11-27-2007, 09:51 PM
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How to creat an airfoil with solidworks???
I would like to draw an airfoil with solidowrk, but it seems to be very dificulty drawing an polylilne from point to point.
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I´m thinking make a Vlisp program to import airfoils from dat files...
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VMoreira
Thanks for all sugestions ???
I´m thinking make a Vlisp program to import airfoils from dat files...
Regards
VMoreira
11-27-2007, 09:53 PM
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RE: How to creat an airfoil with solidworks???
Will Solidworks import a DXF or DWG file? If so then I'll point out that Profili2 can export DXF files from the print preview screen.
11-28-2007, 10:32 AM
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RE: How to creat an airfoil with solidworks???
I've found that exporting from Profili to dxf and importing to SolidWorks works, but the imported geometry is a bit dodgy. A better way, in my opinion, is to use SolidWorks' "Curve Through XYZ Points." From Profili, export the airfoil you want to draw to a .dat file. This will create a file of XY points for a "unit airfoil" (i.e., an airfoil with a chord that is 1 unit). I import this file into Excel and multiply each and every value by whatever I want the chord to be. I also add a third column of all 0's for the Z values. After saving the manipulated values to a text file, they can be imported into SolidWorks via the Curve Through XYZ Points.
