How to design foam board RC planes in Fusion 360

[@lokaero]

I was looking for this so long. KZbin’s algorithm is worst not recommending this amazing video.

[@Markevans36301]

I've been begging for this video. The algorithm just now found it for me. Thanx for making it even though I've mostly worked it out myself it was still good to see how you do it.

[@russianhabibi3723]

Amazing! Just what I was looking for

[@TheThumbsUpChannel]

I've been looking for so long to find this video, thanks so mich

[@RatherFlyRC]

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@luis_st_john]

Thank you for sharing, I tried this, but I am trying to create a trapezoidal wing to no avail, just the conversion to sheet metal fails to infer the thickness, when using a square wing it works fine; any idea, suggestion how to make it work with a trapezoidal wing?

[@lskaling]

It's finicky, I've had that happen a number of times. Ensure the body isn't connected on the back side, and you give a large and constant bend radius on both sides of the wing profile. Perhaps from the square wing try to slowly alter the shape to get closer to the trapezoidal profile until it breaks.

[@emmanouelisaac]

This video was amazing! I wanted to ask what foam are you using? And do you mind posting the sheet metal rule?

[@lskaling]

I'm using Flight Test foam, but any craft foam sheet would work just as well. Mine was 5mm. The material is flexible enough that the sheet metal rule isn't super important (just setting it to aluminum would work), but if you want to be precise the K factor would be close to 1 since the foam compresses much more than it stretches when bent. Thanks for your feedback!

[@ignasanchezl]

I guess learning blender was kinda useless. Not found a way to flatten say a curved top plate to make a laser file out of my model

[@sixdegrees6434]

Why not build in balsa? Do you really prefer the low poly look and feel? Not hatin, just curious

[@vedpatel8365]

cause balsa is heavy and foam is much cheaper and easier to work with.

[@lskaling]

I've never built a full balsa plane (only wings). From my experience balsa planes take much longer to fabricate and assemble, so I've stuck with foam for the majority of my projects.

[@sixdegrees6434]

@@lskaling Give it a try. It's a rewarding experience

[@BlueSparrow13]

Late to the party, but balsa plane 100$ in materials Foam plane 2-5$ in materials Hard not to use foam :p

[@ignasanchezl]

ok so as soon as I added the offset I got a ton of fillet errors and yeah

[@jmollick1]

i wish i understood this LMAO, id love to print out decent plans that i made myself

[@phoenix-z6g1v]

am i the only one who came from google?

[@veronikedearmore1347]

*Promosm* 🌷