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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ericmsil » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:23 pm

fluidity wrote:
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Did anyone manage to save an STL free??
Hi fluidity.

I saved it with .3dm and then converted it to .stl, because the option to save to stl was not enabled

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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ericmsil » Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:42 pm

ZachMoves wrote:
Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:26 am
Absolutely! All you need to do to access the foil import + export features is create a free account. I've enjoyed your thread and think WingHopper is a perfect compliment to your software!

from https://www.winghopper.com/faq:

Import foil section .dat files by changing their file extension from .dat to .txt. WingHopper wings are modelled with 3 sections per wing, for the root, midspan, and tip locations. This allows for sections to be optimized for the local flow patterns.

Would love to look at ways to combine forces + collaborate if you're interested :D
hi Zach,congratulations for the initiative I have not yet worked with the winghopper I just touched some parameters I was already used to this system, because here in the kiteforum there is a similar to karoro only for kites design. I miss a button undoing each modification.

in the download options only the .3dm and .xml format are enabled?

I tried to export an .xml file to xlfr5 and I couldn't find it to enter xlfr5.

there is some option in the winghopper to change the direction of the wing in front view, but in parts. And not entirely from the wing tip to the wing tip?



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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby PrfctChaos » Wed Apr 14, 2021 10:30 pm

Good stuff, I'll check it out!

For a collab. I'd be keen. I'm planning / busy moving my program out of excel, to make it easier to use as a website interface for example. Will give a shout when it's all done.
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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby salvatoreone » Thu Apr 22, 2021 11:52 pm

That's soo good, soon everyone will be making foils, it's becoming so easy with your tools guys! :D

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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ZachMoves » Sun Apr 25, 2021 12:55 am

ericmsil wrote:
Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:23 pm
fluidity wrote:
Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:18 pm
Did anyone manage to save an STL free??
Hi fluidity.

I saved it with .3dm and then converted it to .stl, because the option to save to stl was not enabled

best regards

Ericmsil
I just realized the problem with this and will be fixing it this week, thanks for the heads up.
Keep the feedback coming!

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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ericmsil » Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:32 pm

ZachMoves wrote:
Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:26 am
Absolutely! All you need to do to access the foil import + export features is create a free account. I've enjoyed your thread and think WingHopper is a perfect compliment to your software!

from https://www.winghopper.com/faq:

Import foil section .dat files by changing their file extension from .dat to .txt. WingHopper wings are modelled with 3 sections per wing, for the root, midspan, and tip locations. This allows for sections to be optimized for the local flow patterns.

Would love to look at ways to combine forces + collaborate if you're interested :D

hi zach.


I tried to import the xml file into xlfr5 and gave the following message:

attached image.

tks

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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ericmsil » Mon May 10, 2021 2:04 pm

ericmsil wrote:
Sun Apr 25, 2021 3:32 pm
ZachMoves wrote:
Wed Apr 14, 2021 9:26 am
Absolutely! All you need to do to access the foil import + export features is create a free account. I've enjoyed your thread and think WingHopper is a perfect compliment to your software!

from https://www.winghopper.com/faq:

Import foil section .dat files by changing their file extension from .dat to .txt. WingHopper wings are modelled with 3 sections per wing, for the root, midspan, and tip locations. This allows for sections to be optimized for the local flow patterns.

Would love to look at ways to combine forces + collaborate if you're interested :D

hi zach.


I tried to import the xml file into xlfr5 and gave the following message:

attached image.

tks

Ericmsil
hi zach

did you ask the users to give their feedback and do not answer?

best regards

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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ZachMoves » Thu May 20, 2021 6:20 pm

Hey Eric! Sorry for the late reply. you need to import the wing in the wing definition menu - it is not an XFLR5 polar file, it is a wing file. Polar files just contain 2D section results.

Wing and Plane analysis -> Define a new Plane -> Main Wing -> Import

Let me know if you have any more questions! I will update the FAQ to include this. Thanks for the feedback!
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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby salvatoreone » Sun May 23, 2021 9:06 am

Hey ZachgMoves, I've come back to your tool to create a simple stab to one of my front wings and I thought it would be great to have a small "library" of ready wing designs that you can choose as a starting point and just modify to your liking. Just a few simple shapes that you can click on and start changing parameters. That's just because your tool has so many options that it can be a bit confusing sometimes :lol: :lol:

Also, I've tried uploading a wing profile taken from the airfoiltools.com with no success :( could you let me know how to do that? I'm copying the dat coordinates and saving to txt file but I'm getting some computation time error.

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Re: WingHopper - free wing design/CAD web app

Postby ZachMoves » Mon May 24, 2021 10:32 pm

Salvatoreone - I totally agree, having some templates ready to go is a great idea. It's in the pipeline already! The tool is definitely somewhat overwhelming so I'm working to make it more useful with features like this - thanks for the suggestion!

You should be able to upload any .DAT foil file by changing the file extension to .TXT - no need to copy and paste into a new file. Keep the airfoil name in there are the top as well. Let me know if you have any more trouble!

Zach


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