Helicopter Main Rotor Head Working Animation | Solidworks

RC Helicopter Main Rotor Head Mechanism Animation (Including Swashplate) in Solidworks
This Helicopter Main Rotor Head/Blade System All Parts Design, Assembly and Motion Study/Animation are Entirely Created in Solidworks Software. This video is a simple demonstration of How Helicopter Fly/Works & how Swash plate mechanism is used for changing the Rotor Blade Pitch Angle in order to control the Collective and Pitch, that helps a helicopter in take off, landing and moving forward-backward-left-right.
This RC Helicopter Main Rotor Head Mechanism Consists of:
1. Base ( with Bearing & Anti-Rotation Bracket)
2. Servo Motor
3. Control Links (controls Swashplate Movement)
4. Pitch Links (controls Main Rotor holder)
5. Swashplate (used to transmit pilot's commands like Pitch Control,Roll, Collective to the Main Rotor Blade of the Helicopter. This way Helicopter can be moved Up-down, left-right, forward-backward.
6. Main Rotor Housing
7. Main Rotor Blade Holder
8. Shafts & Necessary Fasteners
9. Rotor Blades
1. Part -1 RC Helicopter Main Rotor Head All Parts Design Tutorial in Solidworks
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2. Part-2 RC Helicopter Main Rotor Head Assembly Tutorial in Solidworks
• Helicopter Main Rotor ...
3. Part-3 RC Helicopter Main Rotor Head Motion Study/Animation Tutorial in Solidworks
• Helicopter Main Rotor ...
4. Helicopter Swashplate Parts Design and Assembly in Solidworks
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[@raouldemer2300]

The best video about rotor head I have never seen

[@АртемЛуспарян-з9е]

Почитал комментарии , видно что ещё есть грамотные люди . Не всё ещё потеряно . Анимация отличная за исключением мелких ошибок . Благодарю всех 🙏👍

[@lucacaleffi9396]

It is so complex that it's a miracle every time an helicopter flies without crashing on the ground.

[@stumpusMaximus]

Just think that Leonardo da Vinci had drawn the first helicopter in the 15th century

[@nosefirst]

That miracle is called a "Pilot".

[@nathanvandusen2166]

Its amazing how your fan works without crashing😂

[@ChadDidNothingWrong]

​@@stumpusMaximus I mean yeah, sort of....still nothing quite like this...he designed a pretty basic crank powered air screw.. State of the art at the time, but just this rotor alone is about as complex if not more. With DaVinci, the complexity of the engineering wasn't that impressive, but rather it was the genius of developing the concept itself to begin with, being so unfathomably unique for the time. It was impressive what he did, but IMO, had he not been quite the isolationist and could have collaborated with some people more skilled in materials and engineering at the time, he may well have created something that excelled on all fronts...not just concept.

[@EugeneChavez-i8z]

Oh how lovely come on Fabricates res Fantastic!

[@TV-yq5be]

I'm a senior researcher at Heimkeeper Co., Ltd.Our company has an idea to reduce propeller noise and vibration of helicopters and drones.We're done with the experiment.We have applied for a utility model and a patent As a result of several experiments with small propellers, the current noise and vibration reduction effect is about 30%. Looking forward good news from you soon

[@amram1017]

Beautiful! A work of art.

[@chrismofer]

In most RC helicopters the ball joint at the blade fork is on the leading edge, not the trailing edge. this inverts the operation of the collective: in your diagram the swashplate goes down to increase pitch, in most RC helis the swash raises in order to increase pitch. Also, your head rotates counter-clockwise from above wheras the convention is to rotate clockwise. you can solve both problems at once by simply installing mirror image blades.

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

Really excellent work, you even got the 90 degrees out of phase for blade lag. One minor comment. Your blafe pitch was the wrong way around, collective up, all blades pitch up, yours go down. Easy enough fix. Blades are generally symmetrical on helicopters, except for the Chinook.

[@jimthomson1892]

His model has trailing edge pitch horns. With this configuration, collective control up would have to cause the slashplate to move down, pitching the blades leading edge up. This would be reversed for leading edge pitch horns. It would have been better to refer to swashplate movement- up and down for collective pitch and tilting for cyclic pitch-as there is no connection between the cockpit controls and the rotor head in this model.

[@edadriano9426]

I agree. Blade grip linkages should have to be installed forward the blade grips. His configuration inverses the Pitch up with collectives sticks all the way down.

[@hocinetouer5897]

بحثت عنك كثيرا و اخيرا وجدتك عمل رائع اخي استمر و لك من اطيب التحيات .

[@malhark748]

Thank you so much! I have always wanted to know how the blade pitch control worked on a helicopter.

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

welcome! Glad to know that it helped.

[@diegoteclas]

i KNEW IT ALREADY, BUT VERY NICE DONE 3D ANIMATION!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thanks!!

[@nobertkazingizi9878]

Yes the complexity is amazing!

[@jacobfriday4482]

I want to start this in my school, as a project.

[@321GhostRider123]

Finaly i saw a video that explain's how it work's. I was asking my self the last year's and was thinking how it could work but was to lazzy to google it. Look's like it was pretty similar how i thougt it would work. Thx oh whise YT alorithm for recommending me that xD

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Glad to hear that! Thank you so much!

[@clementidemudo6006]

make sense. this is a good work. bravo!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thanks a lot!

[@jakerabinz9411]

Lot's of people here wanting to make their own helicopter from a simple animation that shows 3 axis push/pull interactions. But in the real world there is something called friction, and another thing called resonance, and inertia, and gyroscopic force, and mechanical moments. And about 20 other factors that need to precisely balance to overcome gravity without dropping yourself 4 meters and crushing your spine, or having your body sliced into primal cuts of meat by a whirling blade that goes out of track due to a miscalibration, or one of multiple fasteners flying apart because just one of those failed. Come to think of it. Building your own helicopter, could help solve global overpopulation.

[@trincobroadcastingcommitte7528]

Thanks for your valuable information I'm from srilanka

[@403.FORBIDDEN]

Great video and animations as always but I wish it portrayed the helicopters motion relative to the swashplates position better.

[@loflight75]

lower servo arm => increased pitch in animation

[@TS-mq1fj]

WOW!, Excellent explanatory animation. Thank You!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

glad you liked it, thanks!!

[@МаксМаксимыч-ц9л]

Автомат перекоса - гениальная штука!

[@mxcollin95]

Very cool! 🤙

[@benimadhabsarangi2334]

You are genious solid work Praveen

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thank you so much!!

[@sugengtvofficial3376]

nice....greetings from Indonesia ( Sugeng TV official ) good luck!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thanks a lot!

[@sugengtvofficial3376]

@@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh Terimakasih, minta video pembuatan Blades

[@buditarigangersang3692]

Wou keren sir teknologi

[@sdckumara2755]

Thank you bro i made it 🎉🎉❤

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

That's great! Glad it helped you 😊

[@justaninja1]

Pretty cool 👍

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thanks!

[@crazy_istanbul_cat]

I could not understand how it go backwards and front but i think i understand it now :)

[@rongarza9488]

Excellent video. The multi-rotor (quadcopter) Drone technology has really simplified this now, but this was the technology for its day. Of course, this needed a tail prop to compensate for the drag and help in steering.

[@geoffbuttsworth]

The most modern helicopter around (the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity) uses this type of control system. So it's not dead yet!

[@jkleylein]

The tail rotor is mainly used to compensate for torque produced by the main shaft trying to spin the helicopter body in the opposite direction of the rotors. This is why a heli with a damaged tail rotor spins out of control.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@@jkleylein I don't understand why there isn't some kind of emergency gyro or something for failure of the tailrotor.

[@chrismofer]

@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 how do you envision this gyro working?

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

@@chrismofer I don't know, that's for the engineers to figure out.

[@corderodembry1723]

Cant wait!!!!!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thanks!! Full Tutorials will be available just in a week.

[@SnitchyCat]

Sweet!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Glad you liked it!

[@mdbryan9525]

Now do one showing how a coaxial rotor system works especially in regards to how the anti torque pedals work. Thanks

[@mdbryan9525]

@@kenrobba5831 Right. I knew that. What do you call the foot pedals now? Foot pedals?

[@alexndreazevedo]

Excellent video: self-explanatory. The song is also great

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thank you very much!!

[@mohdshafiuddinbidri845]

Superb video with explanation.

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thanks a lot!!

[@20spray1]

thank you for this video!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

welcome!

[@purytutorial7809]

Oww .. sungguh canggih bos.. Aku suka.!

[@dgb5820]

Fantastic job very effective

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thanks!!

[@donalfinn4205]

Well done!👍☘️

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thank you!!

[@wernerschulte6245]

Very well done ! However, I never saw rotor blade holder with a screwed lever. My helicopters do have this in one piece. Is it an engineering idea of you or did you reverse engineering at an existing model ?

[@jayantakumardebnathspring2698]

It's a really excellent video.

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Many many thanks

[@omsingharjit]

Great work .

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Many thanks

[@markjacobsen605]

Turned sound off when music started... Great video. Except for the music.

[@bohan9957]

2:16 Swashplate moving up should give you positive pitch, not negative pitch.

[@TheBigFatHairyCheese]

Often yes, but not for this design. This rotor head is using a negative advance angle, so the swashplate must be LOWERED to increase the pitch angle. Long explanation: - Negative advance angle: the pitch horn attaches to the trailing edge (rear) of the blade: LOWERING the swashplate pulls the back of the blade down, raising collective pitch. - Positive advance angle: the pitch horn attaches to the leading edge (front) of the blade: raising the swashplate lifts the front of the blade up, increasing collective pitch. Some real helicopters (e.g. the B105) use a negative advance angle, while others (e.g. the R44) use a positive advance angle.

[@alanwhitfield1907]

The vast majority of helicopters have the pitch change links connected to the leading edge of the blades so that raising the swashplate causes increase in blade angle of attack. The only types that I know with the pitch change links connected to the trailing edge are the Bolkow 105 and the Hughes 269. The rotor head from the 269 was also used on the McUlloch J2 autygyro, and possibly on a few other autogyro designs.

[@variousvideos554]

I see your are perfect engineer and also you are alone understand the soildworks is perfect! as engineering not cad skills

[@DrernieGDNP]

Thank you !

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Welcome!

[@GenKirby]

I'm confused; I'm seeing the blades pitch down when the collective is raised on a counterclockwise rotating system. . .? I understand this is supposed to be an RC helicopter, but either I'm crazy or the blades are not pitching correctly.

[@govindasemasinghe7744]

Grate work !! Can I have these cad files if don’t mind?

[@user7amoud34]

Wonderful video Thanks a lot

[@JB73691]

This makes my RC heli roll pitch and yaw.

[@girleudogarcia2718]

I need a project like this, I'm going to build my helicopters

[@rahulchoure8035]

good job

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thanks

[@christianalcala5383]

have you had the donwload link?

[@marianaemily7128]

I like it so much, it's really a great work. I would like to have this project. Could you share it with me with more details?

[@armaganalkan1661]

there should be 2 rotating scissors for dynamic stability(vibration)

[@pepopa7014]

Good job!!

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thanks!

[@kartoffelsack362]

Very nice animation. You did your job very well

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thank you very much!

[@ezaken1099]

Cara

[@kasifyldrm1981]

Merhaba kolay 3 adet servoyu aynı anda hareket ettirip sonra ayrı ayrı birbirinden bağımsız hareket ettiren bir sistem varmi teşekkür ediyorum

[@doymotorspeed]

Gambarya kurang jelas mas broo, tutoril nya good,👍👍

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

full tutorial links are there in the description box of the video

[@hossamabdelrahman7343]

What is the RPM of a helicopter rotor? How fast do helicopter blades spin?

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

in this animation, 10 RPM was taken.

[@alanwhitfield1907]

The majority of helicopters have a rotor speed around 200rpm. The Westland Gazelle has 380rpm and the Westland Scout and Wasp have rotor speed of 400, with a potential 410 maximum. I believe that this is the highest rpm of any helicopter design. Most helicopters have some means for the pilot to adjust rotor RPM within a few percent of the nominal.

[@EdgarMorales-vw2wr]

Is interesting how described this function, when I was a child forever ask me, what did the blade do to move? Interesting

[@indrajitmajumdar8590]

Recommended CPU configuration for smooth running of solidworks please.

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Basic requirement: i5 (or higher) 500 GB Hard disk or SSD (for high speed SSD is preferred), RAM 8 GB (16 GB- if dealing with analysis & large number of parts), Graphics Card 4GB ( NVIDIA Quadro K2200 or any SW Recommended)

[@indrajitmajumdar8590]

@@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh Thank you very much. So its a costly system.

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

yes it's costly But! if u don't need to use SW for any heavy projects ( including more than 100 parts & lots of analysis involved ) then this configuration is still enough: i 3 or i 5, 500 GB Hard disk, 4-8 GB RAM, 2GB Intel Graphics Card

[@indrajitmajumdar8590]

@@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh thanks mate, I really really appreciate that. And what kind of gpu? Quadro I guess. Will the same config work on maya, inventor, 3dsmax etc too?

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

GPU ( it's useful when u have to work on very complex project & render any simple or complex animation) , otherwise CPU is sufficient. For Maya, 3dsMax You will need GPU to quickly bake & render high quality animation.

[@philam1973]

I used ti work with a company that did a lot if work with helicopters. I used to provide support in 2 different helicopter factories. Learned a lot how they flew. Your pitch lower section works fine but I fail to see the upper blade movement following the same inclined plane. Am I correct?

[@barbaryasbarbar4986]

good expression

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thanks

[@manuelsilva8528]

Any idea about rigid rotor design?

[@labhanshkr8424]

Aaj pehli baar samaj main aaya ki helicopter 🚁 kyse udta h.. 👍

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thank you bhai 😊🙏

[@viswanathanramakrishnan7613]

It's an eye opener for me to know the rotor blades of a helicopter is being controlled. Is it possible to to 3D print these parts of required dimensions to incorporate the same in a model. Is the STL files of the parts provided in the video since I am watching this in my android mobile.

[@princess5252]

Saya ingin belajar membuat helly copter sederhana gimana sih dari awal nya

[@lakkingbakler3716]

Great works that's good but please which software did you use to make animation after motion study with many sequences

[@viral2031]

Plz I need software or emulator to test the motor of the helicopter

[@iskendersefaylmaz4963]

Absolutely perfect video, however, the deficiency in the video is the voice of a human. I think it should not be too hard to explain it in words instead of silly heading. This deficiency prevents me from watching this video.

[@AkidilCocugu]

Can I have this design so that we can really manufacter it? I will appreciate and will certainly pay for it.

[@vikirabat5091]

Can i use it to make my own helicopter

[@sampathhappawana2334]

If possible to show the parts separately easy to make them to us.

[@girleudogarcia2718]

Top

[@tuanho9520]

I need a detailed drawing. Please thank you so much

[@rasavelupillai3615]

Hi super

[@jimthomson1892]

Great video. The part you label “Rotor Holder” is actually called a “Blade Grip.”

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thanks a lot!

[@vigisbigtm]

Is there a place where I can download the parts, I want to do this mechanism in Catia.

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Currently not, but a series of full tutorials of design, assembly and motion study are there on the channel.

[@pp_septipurfitasari3966]

What about 3 blade?

[@note.inspace]

how to create animation like this ?? too good

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Created in Solidworks software. This animation is a combination of works created using Solidworks Animation & Motion Analysis. Thank you so much!

[@note.inspace]

@@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh please make a tutorial on how to create solidworks animation like how in the starting all the components were joining together.

[@jbpark8719]

But RC heli rotor rotate direction is 'clockwise'. look at the 2.17's rotor direction. it's opposite. and 2.31 too.

[@mnetronics6431]

yes helicopter lore

[@arafat877]

Could you share with me the schematic of this system please ???

[@budipirang2694]

Wow l like it

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

Thank you so much !

[@anilrathod5976]

bro can you make animation on rotary index table

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

yes, will do.

[@anilrathod5976]

@@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh thanks i wll b waiting for video

[@sagarpawar4068]

Can you give use the files of part design and assembly dimension files

[@kashyappandya7047]

Please make same for coaxial rotors helicopter ( kamov 226t )

[@adverspace]

Hmm now I can think clearly

[@mostafasaadinasab7284]

#awesome

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

thank you so much

[@sagarpawar4068]

Can you plz give use the dimension files of the assembly and all part

[@georgepbriles696]

I'm not big on helicopters, I got pretty good at flying them in the simulators though, yeah I don't like those rotor heads, they look really problematic and dangerous to me with a lot of possible failure points, what kind of lifespan do they get out of those things? Yeah that main rotor shaft has to endure the entire weight load of the vehicle and everything it's lifting along with aerodynamic forces against the rotors and the body of the helicopter, with all those little moving parts around that thing seems really dangerous and something you typically try to avoid doing in engineering.

[@damodargarh2238]

Sir ap kha se hai

[@weiaungweiaung]

yes👍👍👍👍

[@Ammar.Singh.Randhawa]

hay can you share this SW model with us

[@VinodKumar-ff5li]

If this thing shown on real helicopter it would be more useful

[@amamulkhan7551]

Oki

[@segerpramono617]

Good afternoon healthy al ways greetings everyone thankyou🙏

[@doymotorspeed]

Bering lotor hlyy copter what is the name, broo??!!...

[@D-B-Cooper]

My brother use to do testing on helicopter parts, he showed me a bolt, about 3/8”, that held the blades on. Here we have two, very good expensive bolts, but makes you worry about counterfeit parts.

[@jayakrishnans2785]

Thanku

[@SolidworksFunPraveenSingh]

welcome

[@jesuschris3181]

I need to buy