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julian_ciszek
julian_ciszek Member Posts: 4 EDU
in Student Discussion

I am trying to design a remote control plane, and I have been at it for a while, but I have not found any dedicated tutorials for how to do such a thing in Onshape, so I would love if another set of eyes could look over it and give me pointers. This plane is designed to be a pusher UAV similar to small military surveilancsurveillance UAVs to operate with a small brushless engine. Thank you for checking it out!

Here is the file:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/81d49067701a75b34c7061f8/w/e7311ddad620a56559123e97/e/ffce275bb3b5b13cf4fbf8e1

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  • S1mon
    S1mon Member Posts: 4,451 PRO

    You might enjoy these:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVV71gpNSq8
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZVIfquMF4&t=16s

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-VRYm3kMDA

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  • MichaelPascoe
    MichaelPascoe Member Posts: 2,938 PRO
    edited April 2025

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    Pretty sweet design over all, nice work!

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    Here are some things I noticed:

    • This fillet seems to be particularly bad. Try using blend face here instead.
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    • 155 seems like a lot of features for how simple and clean the drone design is. I imagine you could do this in 60 features or less.
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    • When taking a section view along the purple rods:
      • There is an interference with the wing and the wing rod.
      • The loose fit tolerance for the purple rods may be too loose. I usually use 0.005in for a loose fit that still allows for glue.
      • Where the purple rod meets the tail fin area, there are open gaps where the rod holder doesn't properly meet the tail fin.
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    • The tail fin corners need some work, the curvature is bad there. Perhaps try a different method or use guide curves.
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    • The right fin didn't get the boolean operation for the rod clearance.
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  • julian_ciszek
    julian_ciszek Member Posts: 4 EDU

    Thank you very much for the feedback! It has been really helpful, especially seeing that this is my first real model.

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