Did you guys use the LS-1 canard and the standard wing airfoil?
I'm going to scale it to 150% as I have 400mm height max 3D printer.
Im interested in Low Reynolds airfoils and possibly changing it if needed.
P.S. I found the instructions, they are AWESOME! If you want to make it easier for us lazy folks, maybe can you put those instructions in the download? Anyway a minor thing I picked up. So much work has gone into this it is very impressive.
They are “solid bodies” but no you certainly don’t print them solid with 100% infill. In the manual I recommend 2-3% infill depending on the model and what’s more, I also suggest doubling the print speed of the infill lines which makes them very thin. The spars and ribs are created by the 3 dimensional infill. The quickie also uses carbon spars through holes in the wings.You can see the “ribs” created in this way in the photo.The term “solid bodies” refers to the fact that they are water tight shapes as opposed to “surface or hollow bodies”. In “surface” case the printer has to interpret a surface with no thickness and print it as a 0.4mm width line. The Dragon is the only model that utilises surface mode on my site at the moment but others designers use it. It’s not for me though.
So cool Jon, thanks!
Did you guys use the LS-1 canard and the standard wing airfoil?
I'm going to scale it to 150% as I have 400mm height max 3D printer.
Im interested in Low Reynolds airfoils and possibly changing it if needed.
P.S. I found the instructions, they are AWESOME! If you want to make it easier for us lazy folks, maybe can you put those instructions in the download? Anyway a minor thing I picked up. So much work has gone into this it is very impressive.
They are “solid bodies” but no you certainly don’t print them solid with 100% infill. In the manual I recommend 2-3% infill depending on the model and what’s more, I also suggest doubling the print speed of the infill lines which makes them very thin. The spars and ribs are created by the 3 dimensional infill. The quickie also uses carbon spars through holes in the wings. You can see the “ribs” created in this way in the photo. The term “solid bodies” refers to the fact that they are water tight shapes as opposed to “surface or hollow bodies”. In “surface” case the printer has to interpret a surface with no thickness and print it as a 0.4mm width line. The Dragon is the only model that utilises surface mode on my site at the moment but others designers use it. It’s not for me though.