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Airfoil Design With SolidWorks

This document provides instructions for designing an airfoil in SolidWorks using an airfoil data file. The steps include: 1) Downloading an airfoil data file from a website in .dat format and converting it to .txt format. 2) Using the Curve by X,Y,Z Points tool in SolidWorks to import the airfoil coordinates from the .txt file and create an airfoil curve. 3) Creating a sketch on the front plane and converting the curve to an extruded surface from the middle plane. 4) Optionally moving, rotating, and resizing the surface body as needed before creating the final solid airfoil body.

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Airfoil Design With SolidWorks

This document provides instructions for designing an airfoil in SolidWorks using an airfoil data file. The steps include: 1) Downloading an airfoil data file from a website in .dat format and converting it to .txt format. 2) Using the Curve by X,Y,Z Points tool in SolidWorks to import the airfoil coordinates from the .txt file and create an airfoil curve. 3) Creating a sketch on the front plane and converting the curve to an extruded surface from the middle plane. 4) Optionally moving, rotating, and resizing the surface body as needed before creating the final solid airfoil body.

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Airfoil Design with SolidWorks

choose and find an airfoil design file


Get it from the web :
http://airfoiltools.com/ has a nice database
o choose yours
o download the dat file
o change the file type from ".dat" to ".txt"; for exemple : "fg2.dat" "fg2.txt"
o edit (text editor) the file to remove the comments and add a 3rd column of 0 for
the z axis;
Using our profile with solidworks
o open SolidWorks and create a new part
o use the curve by x,y,z points from the curve sub-menu of the insert menu

o use the curve by x,y,z points from the curve sub-menu of the insert menu
o use the .txt file you just made
You should now have an airfoil curve in the x,y plane

Sketch drawing:
o enter the sketch drawing mode on the front plane
o select the curve and use the convert entity button
For an easy work it's best to create an extruded surface
from middle planewith this sketch

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Now you can move/rotate/resize your surface body to match what you want
Ex:

I moved the surface to have the middle chord on the origin


I scale the surface to 15 mm (as usually the .dat file give a 1 unit chord airfoil)
I rotate the airfoil to 15
I usually use the body delete on all used surface so later my CFD soft will not use them
create the solid, 2 methods :
a) using surfaces
o close the surface with planes
both sides
o sew the faces and try to make a solid
b) using solids
o enter the sketch drawing mode on the front plane
o select the surface and use the intersection button
o extrude to get your solid with
or
if you serch for non rectilign and/or twisted
airfoil
Et voila!

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