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Airfoil Sketch from File

Le Bear CNC

Airfoil Sketch from File

Le Bear CNC

Generate sketch profiles from any CSV or DAT file in Autodesk® Fusion®.

Free

Very simple to use, an existing construction line on a sketch need to be selected, then the file from which to generate the airfoil is selected. You can choose to have the airfoil name added as text on the sketch.

Features:

  • Use an existing sketch line as a chord reference for the profile. Can be of any length, at any angle with horizontal.
  • Accept CSV files, with either comma or semi-colon as a delimiter.
  • Accept DAT files, either in the Selig format or the less common Lednicer format
  • For Dat files, the name of the Airfoil can be added to the sketch, if desired.
  • Leading edge is always where the line started to be drawn.

Details

Operating system

win64-platform-icon

Release date

Apr 12, 2018


Last updated

Oct 4, 2024


Version

1.2


Language

English

Compatible with

FSN-icon

FSN

Capabilities

Learning

General utilities

Visualization

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Included with this add-in are a few airfoil files, to show the different file formats accepted:
-Fad24.dat, E203.dat and Abrial17rev.dat are .dat files in the standard "Selig" Format
-FX60126.dat is in the Lednicer format

-Eppler203.csv is a semi-colon delimited CSV file
-ClarkY.csv is a comma-delimited CSV file

If you get errors with an airfoil file, check that it matches properly one of the format examples before reporting an error.

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