topic Re: Airplane Wing with "Winglet" - How to design? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Airplane Wing with "Winglet" - How to design?

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:27:54 GMT

Hi guys,

After doing a few hours trying and browsing on internet tutorials I was unable to find a really effect way about how to design a airplane "winglet". As a reference you guys can see this picture:

I do really appreciate any help on this design. If is not asking too much, if you can refer to some video reference will be great.

cheers,

Galeno

Re: Airplane Wing with "Winglet" - How to design?

dghylin — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:46:38 GMT

First, I'm still exploring a lot also but I think you could loft that wing using rails. Create a plane and a sketch with the root rib. Create a plane and sketch with the tip rib. Then create a plane perpendicular vertically to the leading edge, also one for the trailing edge. In these sketches draw your rails.....I did a little very rough test to see if it would work....jpg attached. I just hacked in a rail but it does work. .HTH but expect a lot of failures and much head scratching......:)

Re: Airplane Wing with "Winglet" - How to design?

etfrench — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 02:16:36 GMT

Do a search on 'wing' in this forum. You'll get at least 10 pages of threads. It's probably the most popular thing to model with Fusion 360

Basic workflow: Create the airfoil beginning and end shapes. Create a rail that maps the bend between the main wing and the winglet. Loft between the airfoil beginning and end shapes using the rail. It would probably work best if you modeled the entire wing instead of just the winglet.