CopterCAD drone designer version 0.5 now available!

Here are some of the improvements: -fixed propeller duct height correlated to electric motors per drone arm issue-added ability to load stl files and selected objects to object library-drone parametric generation performance improvements-booleans don’t crash so much anymore-added drone motor support aspect ratio parameter-added new CAD object: prism with rounded corners – good for aircraft […]

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CopterCAD version 0.3 now available!

The ongoing revolution in drones and Urban Air Mobility Vehicles presents a staggering diversity of configurations. No longer are aircraft following the classic formula of wing plus engine up front or rotor over the fuselage. Freedom to design is limited only by imagination! Here is where CopterCAD, our free web-based VTOL design app , comes […]

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Quick tutorial for getting started with pythonOCC

pythonOCC (http://www.pythonocc.org) is a wrapper for the free geometry library OpenCASCADE (https://www.opencascade.com/). It allows the programmer to leverage the extensive libraries and ease of use of the Python language with the powerful CAD tools of OpenCASCADE. The steps of this tutorial were performed in Windows, but it should work similarly under Linux after the first […]

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