10.5281/zenodo.3752258
https://zenodo.org/records/3752258
oai:zenodo.org:3752258
Scholz, Dieter
Dieter
Scholz
0000-0002-8188-7269
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Sousa, Tahir
Tahir
Sousa
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
OpenVSP-Connect - Visualize Your Aircraft Sizing Results with NASA's Vehicle Sketch Pad
Zenodo
2013
EWADE2013
aircraft
design
sizing
conceptual
open
sketch
interface
Excel
NASA
teaching
education
research
Europe
workshop
2013
Prof. Scholz @ Zenodo
2013-09-19
Presentation
10.5281/zenodo.796593
https://zenodo.org/communities/profscholz
https://zenodo.org/communities/ewade
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
A 3D visualization is missing for many aircraft preliminary sizing tools. NASA’s Open Vehicle Sketch Pad (OpenVSP) is easy to use, but lacks an interface to input consistent aircraft data. Such an interface has been programmed and is called OpenVSP-Connect. Aircraft are sketched from about 50 parameters. If these are not known to the user, the interface calculates them as good as possible based on simple equations from aircraft design or statistics. Taken this to the extreme, a decent looking aircraft is drawn from as few as two or three input parameters.
http://EWADE.AircraftDesign.org --- http://ProceedingsEWADE2013.AircraftDesign.org