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Re: Cannot Hollow Out Airplane Wing in Onshape
martin_kopplow said:Yeah, that's a difficult shape. It might be a good approach to surface-model that, maybe keep top and bottom separate at the chord for now, and then thicken, unite.
I'm with martin on this one. Start with inside profile, loft as a surface, and then thicken. With airfoil shapes, I can tell you the problem issues always seem to show up at the trailing edge ( usually in the form of self-intersecting profiles). working from inside to outside will eliminate most of these issues ( but not always). Also use guide curves with lofts - this seems to make lofts more stable. And as Nick states - model with tiny radii on trailing edges.
Keep going, you will get there. Just wait till you try propellers lol.
Re: Cannot Hollow Out Airplane Wing in Onshape
Maybe make it so that it doesn't come to an absolute point. I suspect there are zero manufacture-able wings that end in a point like yours does.
MDesign
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
"…If we can't use expressions, it really limits the amount of automation we can achieve…."
100% agree.
Which is why I've not understood why simply supressing a feature with an expression is not possible yet? yes there are some work arounds, but why not have "suppress feature" convert to expression option like you do with Booleans?
