The conceptual aircraft designer is faced with a dilemma, how to strike the best balance between productivity and fidelity? Historically, handbook methods have required only the coarsest of geometric parameterizations in order to perform analysis. Increasingly, there has been a drive to upgrade analysis methods, but these require considerably more precise and detailed geometry. Attempts have been made to use computer-aided design packages to fill this void, but their cost and steep learning curve have made them unwieldy at best. Vehicle Sketch Pad (VSP) has been developed over several years to better fill this void. While no substitute for the full feature set of computer-aided design packages, VSP allows even novices to quickly become proficient in defining three-dimensional, watertight aircraft geometries that are adequate for producing multi-disciplinary meta-models for higher order analysis methods, wind tunnel and display models, as well as a starting point for animation models. This paper will give an overview of the development and future course of VSP.
Vehicle Sketch Pad: a Parametric Geometry Modeler for Conceptual Aircraft Design
48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting ; 2010 ; Orlando, FL, United States
2010-01-04
Conference paper
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English
VEHICLE SKETCH PAD: PARAMETRIC GEOMETRY FOR CONCEPTUAL AIRCRAFT DESIGN
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