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Designing Propellers

Hello,
I am trying to design a custom propeller for a quadcopter. I have found that I need the propeller to have a diameter of about 3 inches and the propeller must have a pitch greater than 4.8 inches. How can I design this propeller and be sure of the measurements?
I am trying to design a custom propeller for a quadcopter. I have found that I need the propeller to have a diameter of about 3 inches and the propeller must have a pitch greater than 4.8 inches. How can I design this propeller and be sure of the measurements?
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HWM-Water Ltd
Me, I'd loft a surface to get the blade's pitch. Probably do another for the blade's bottom allowing me to easily make them different (top not the same as bottom). I'd then trim both back to some normal profile sketch. I'd then create a transition surface patch from top to bottom. I'd then enclose them all together and then create the mounting points using solid commands.
I'd probably be careful when creating the loft sketches allowing me to drive with configurations. I could then have 'high lift blades' or 'efficient blades'.
I'd probably try to get @philip_thomas to help and get a dose of propeller design theory.
This is how I'd do it.
But, without a little more help from you, like @owen_sparks says, it's kinda hard to help you out
https://www.google.com/search?q=propeller+onshape&oq=propeller+onshape&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j0.3940j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
I found this link (http://www.propellerpages.com/?c=articles&f=2006-03-27_manual_pitch_measurement) on how you can measure the pitch of an actual physical propellor with protractors and by drawing some propellors. However, I want to be able to take the the pitch measurement in Onshape before I go to 3-D print it. Can someone tell me how I could replicate the procedure in the link above in Onshape?
Thanks!