Aero Design

Meaning you will be looking to use someone’s aero CAD skills free of charge, no matter the time taken and the number of updates you’d want performing during the ‘tweaking’ stages. But then again, seeking a CAD designer who charges for their time, as should be the case, ignoring BS rule 11, wouldn’t encourage you to do what’s morally correct. Good luck in finding ‘FOC area design services’.

@Chris Well Said.!

What might be your pet project, may utterly bore somebody agreeing to take on the FOC works. It’s the boredom that often stops designers half way through, then causing you to get irritated as the designers fails to fulfil the FOC, gentleman’s agreement contract, meaning you feel justified in trolling the designer through some twisted logic. Been there, done that, wearing the tee shirt, never again, no matter how nice you come across as first. That tends not to last.

An RC hobbyist would share in the spoils as well as sharing another excellent business proposal that I have Mr Cynic. I have skills on offer too.

I’m intrigued by your proposal. I use Autodesk Inventor pro primarily for machine design. However, as you can see from some of my models on GrabCAD I’ve dabbled in some designs that may be beneficial. I have a good amount of experience with CNC so I understand the process from start to finish. I’ve built and flown many RC aircraft over the last 45 years. Mostly internal combustion powered airplanes and helis. I would consider myself an advanced builder but only an average flyer.

The model you propose seems to be designed more for fantasy and fiction rather than airworthiness. While it would be rather easy to select an airfoil and CG location, that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be aerodynamically stable. Has this ever been attempted or have any aerodynamic studies been done? Why do you want to model this particular aircraft?

How much documentation do you have? Hopefully you have, or can generate, some detailed cross sections that can be converted to 3D.

I generally finish a design down to the last fastener before starting the fabrication of the first part. How do you envision the design process? Develop the bare minimum for core generation or flesh it all out complete?

I work full time so would have limited time to invest. I’m not looking for financial reward nor any other type of compensation. I’m looking for taking part in a project where the reward is the successful completion of the project itself. There are other sometimes intangible benefits gained along the way such as increased knowledge and new friends. Obviously if the the finished design is marketed or the model kitted I would expect reasonable compensation.

What is your timeframe? How committed are you to completing this? Have you completed similar projects? Do you foresee any scenarios where it would be in our best interest to abandon this project or redirect our efforts.

An obvious issue is that we are on opposite sides of the globe. That may not be much of an issue during development but it will certainly be difficult to share in the final outcome. Then again maybe it’s time for a return trip to Australia.

Just looked at your projects on GrabCAD Bob. Very impressive. I’ve pm’d you.