Hey everyone,
I'm Karan from India and have been involved with drones for around 3 years now.
I'm the sub-coordinator of the Aero Dynamics club here. We are a bunch of highly motivated people who love building planes and see them soaring high up in the sky. You can check it out here:
For almost one year I worked on designing a solar powered UAV capable of theoretical perpetual flight so I have an in depth knowledge of multi-disciplinary optimization since you have to individually make each part efficient and as a system too. But sadly the project stalled due to lack of funds. I hope I'm able to pursue it further sometime in future.
I have worked extensively in Aircraft CFD analysis and control systems (way point navigation). I have been working on these domains exclusively since the past 3 years.
I have worked on multiple autopilot systems and have designed completely autonomous multi-copters. I have also worked on aircraft design and completely constructed a 4-axis CNC machine for foam cutting (airframes) and test rigs with my mates here.
I've been in talks with Wayne Garris and hopefully we'll soon be working together on the next techpod along with the complete drone community. (if the design becomes open source)
Really excited about this, would be a great learning opportunity working withprofessionals like Wayne.
Looking forward to working with you Wayne.
Do check out the attached pictures.
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http://caddrones.com/techpod If you folks at Techpod make accounts on CADDrones.com I can give you exclusive admin access and editing of the TechPod Open Source page.
http://caddrones.com/techpod Our team is going to be working all night building your open source haven! :)
running fine on my system, no lag. for reference:
asus sabertooth 990 fx
AMD FX-8150 3.6 ghz ram
16 gb ram
2x ssd in raid1
2x 560ti in SLI
1000 watt psu
Don't believe the hype against the FX8150 it smokes the competition when it comes to CAD/FE just don't expect it to open a zip file as fast.
karan, lets talk on the discussion group.
.. and don't forget you are welcome to modify the file yourself, just follow the license. Share and attribute;-)
I have found that STL does not work well with the compound curves involved. an iges copy is found under the the "render" folder on grab cad. You will want to have a good computer to run it on, it is a complex design.
It has been my experience is that the best file type depends entirely on the two programs involved. For instance with openFoam ,obj files work way better then stl or stp.
I am adopting CAElinux as the development environment. you can download the 2013 version based on ubuntu and jump right in. It has a vast array of open source CAD,CAM, FE/CFD tools all pre-installed with the distro and ready to run.
Thanks.
I didn't know FreeCAD existed till you mentioned it. I think STEP or IGES is a more universal format, since even FreeCAD can use it. If you can release a STEP file, that'd be welcome by more than just myself, I'm sure!
Joshua, ya, still plan on posting the files there.
Andrew,
I published it in the FreeCAD format so anyone can download FreeCAD and the file and convert it to their needs. I guess I did not make that clear on grabcad. If that does not work for you, let me know.
Any chance of a real format, Wayne? Like STEP? ;)
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