At 3:30 I begin adding diagram canvases, if you want to scale your design to an exact dimension, watch this video I published on how to calibrate a canvas in F360 👉 ruclips.net/video/ui-rieDDdTQ/видео.html
The fact that you did this and made a video to help people impressed me. But after watching you do this on a trackpad and not with a mouse is actually amazing and my hat is off to you sir.
Thank you AJ for the kind comment! Yeah, many are shocked that I use a track pad. I switched many years ago from a mouse. My wrists would end up hurting badly after just a short while. It was tough switching, but now with all of the gestures built in, it's second nature to me.... A mouse feels strange now 😁 - thanks again for taking the time to leave a nice comment!
I did all my engineering school using a glass multitouch trackpad MacBook Pro. A mouse felt like a downgrade. Especially with native Mac CAD software that supports gestures.
For decades I have been working more bad than right in 2D and have made countless attempts to learn the design in 3D. Today everyone prints in 3D or creates parts on portal mills ... and I want to be able to do that too. All my attempts with Rhino, Freecad or Turbocad always failed but with your channel I finally dare to hope. Getting started with Fusion 360 is not as hard as I thought, you explain absolutely great, your tutorials are perfect, exactly what I want to do and for the first time I'm making progress. It will take time, but finally I see a chance to design my childhood dream .. a C-119 Boxcar ... and that before my retirement ;-) Thank you so much for sharing your skills and I sincerely hope that you will produce many more videos like this.
Hi Lars! Thank you so much for such a thoughtful and generous comment! CAD can be a very challenging thing to learn. In the past I had given it several tries and also failed. For me, it took a while to grasp the concept of working on a two dimensional screen in 3 dimensions. I'm happy to hear that the way I laid things out in this video series has been the very thing you needed to get over the hurdles CAD can present! Cheers to that! The C-110 Boxcar looks like a beautiful aircraft! There is another fellow I know of who is also designing a twin boom military airplane. There are some interesting design challenges there, but you'll get it figured out ;) -- I've got many more videos in the pipeline, all the way to maiden flight.
@@RCCAD2VR Yes, that's it and designing in 3D is a hard topic to teach to oneself. You are really the first one who paves the way to this fascinating world in a step by step and understandable way. Now I'm sitting in front of my results of the last weeks with Fusion360 and can't believe I did it. :-D ok, but to be honest, I realized that it's better not to start with the most complex machine like a C-119 ... but my C-123 in 1:12 scale instead is already making very good progress so the C-119 out of the Film "The Flight of the Phoenix" from 1965 comes later ;-) The more I learn with your help, the more fun it is.I love it. Thank you Terrance :-)
With that very very clear technique of explaining im able to learn with 0 experience before on 3d building 😮 if everything was that easy in school also will be great
Loved the video and the way you talk and explain! Very few people have this skill of keeping the audience hooked! Thank you for taking out time to make this playlist!
I already design build & fly rc planes but always wanted to design planes in 3D, few years back I had installed the Fusion 360 but never got started..I hope to start now... your video is very helpful.. good job
That's awesome! Fusion 360 's learning curve, if you're new to 3D modeling or CAD, is a bit steep. Glad to hear this is inspiring you to give it another go! I've got several more videos planned. Let me know how your project comes along as you start making progress. Which planes have you built?
@@RCCAD2VR I build sports, Aerobatic & F3A planes, my passion is flying precision aerobatics & 3D flying. For many years I have been using coreldraw to design planes, but I always wanted to design planes in 3D. I mostly love to design & experiment on better aerobatic designs..
hello; thanks for all your work!! as a french, i really appreciate the way you speak, i mean slowly. it's very important for french guys.....your videos are very helpful
Hi Emmanuel! It's exciting to hear that you are able to follow the video and that my delivery is intelligible! Happy to know I've been helpful, despite the language barrier! 🇫🇷 C'est excitant d'apprendre que vous êtes capable de suivre la vidéo et que ma livraison est intelligible! Heureux de savoir que j'ai été utile, malgré la barrière de la langue!
This is a magnificent series. I just built a Mig15 from an old, inaccurate plan, and I had to spend an age, figuring out a ton of stuff and guestimating it. Now I can use this to get it absolutely correct. top marks, Sir!
@@RCCAD2VR It's only a 24" span rubber-powered job, but it took me two years - on and off - to finish due its complexity. I enlarged an old plan, which greatly exaggerated the inaccuracies. I only needed the outline but guesstimating the diameter and hand-drawing the circular laminated formers, so that the longerons ran perfectly true, took ages. One was 1mm out, so there is a 0.5mm kink in the fuselage at that point. It's almost invisible, but it looks like the Grand Canyon to me! I wanted to stretch myself, so I had already chosen the hardest colour scheme I could find - big rectangles that are symmetrical both left to right and top to bottom - which left nowhere to hide if the aircraft wasn't built perfectly symmetrical. It came out pretty well in the end but, oh boy, do I wish I had a CAD drawn plan to start with! I will definitely be putting my next build, an E.E. Lightning, onto Fusion360. At some point, I will make a video of the Mig15 when I have some flying footage, and post it on my channel. Many thanks, again. I can't wait for the next installment.
There are many good tutorials on the internet and RUclips, but this was a cut above the rest. Excellent work, excited to binge the series! Most helpful for me was that you were using Fusion360, and modelling a scale RC aircraft.
Огромное спасибо за столь подробную наглядность и практику. Для новичков в проектировании это потрясающий урок. (Thank you so much for such detailed visualization and practice. For those new to design, this is an amazing tutorial.)
This is really, really amazing! I'm by no means a F 360 expert but I do know of a better way to build and extrude those fuselage formers/bulkheads. I traced out the sketch just like Terrence but I used the trim tool on the sketch to get rid of all the intersecting lines. After that you can select the whole shape without having to select each piece of the model to extrude it.
Just what the doctor ordered! Kidding aside, I am designing a CL-415 and was trying to use FreeCAD, but as helpful as that community is, having a good set of introductory material is simply more efficient. And then I discovered your video's. So Fusion360 it is ;-) Thanks for taking a huge chunk out of the learning curve!
The CL-415 is Awesome! That will be a really fun project. I've also considered building that one. Welcome to the F360 RC Modelers crew! I haven't worked with FreeCAD, so can't say anything about it but I think you'll enjoy working with F360 once you learn some of its idiosyncrasies. So happy to hear that the videos are helping you get through some of the steep learning curve that comes with 3D modeling. Keep me posted on your progress with the Superscooper! Would love to see how it comes along. Cheers
Hey Thomas, thank you for the Huge Compliment!! Glad to hear the rave review on this video... Lots more videos to come! Hope the others that I have on my channel so far works as well for you! Cheers!
Absolutely loving these videos, so so helpful. I've been looking for a new CAD program for designing my rc aircraft for a while now. Seeing you explaining each step is saving me hours of research and fascinating to watch. Great work, please please keep them coming 👍
Hi Mark! So happy to hear you're loving the videos and best of all saving you time! I'm really trying to do my best to demystify and bridge the knowledge gap for everyone interested in Model Building, seems like I'm on the right track from your feedback! What CAD software were you using before?
Hi. Awesome project. Trying to follow along but not getting the same results. First I have never used fusion 360 or any cad program. I have been involved with model RC well over 50 years. Built thousands of kits and thousands more scratch build the scratch builds were from scaling very detailed models. What ya doing is great. Great job. I don’t know why my canvas doesn’t work out.
Hey there! It's awesome that you are giving Fusion 360 and CAD design a go! Happy to hear you're enjoying the project. What issue are you having with the canvas? Just a tip as well, each episode has a companion webpage that I release at the same time that tries to answer many of the questions I get to help clarify anything in the episode. For this episode check out this page. www.rccad2vr.com/rc-airplane-design-build-episodes/how-i-designed-a-rc-airplane-in-fusion-360 Let me know if that help any. Cheers.
I'm not making any type of plane designs but really enjoyed this video. I've been using Fusion 360 for a few years now off and on to design parts for my antique car, 1940 Ford. I will check out your website. Thanks, Peter
That's awesome Peter! It's nice to hear that others outside of the airplane world are able to get something valuable from the videos I produce! Cheers!
Thanks! I stopped using a mouse years ago thanks to them hurting my wrist. I'm so used to using a track pad now I don't even think about it, all muscle memory.
I was just thinking about getting my boy started with CAD'ing up an RC plane. Will probably use SolidWorks though...I would think it is easier than Fushion 360. Regardless, should keep him busy for a long time! 3D printing would be our goal.
I am designing a rc p51 for a final project because it doesn’t have a big circular tube would I create a base for the widest part (canopy) and then follow the nose video or would I do something else? Great video though
Just found you , it’s refreshing to see true engineering. This is the hobby, today’s foam cup planes has made everyone a pilot. And the whole five screws the use makes them flight specialists. All these video’s praising foam planes was making sick. Excellent work, I’m watching every episode to see how she comes out. Beautiful I’m sure. 😊
SUBSCRIBED!!! I’ve even in the past searched for RC F360 stuff and never got recommended your channel. Really appreciate you doing this as I want to scratch-build a plane and use F360, 3-D printing and balsa/ply to build it. Also hoping to get my small UV-diode laser, to if-not cut the wood, at least mark it and make it easy for an X-acto blade to follow. So, pretty jazzed about what you’re doing 😊 Thanks!
Thank you for this, I started printing planes from plans I purchased online and then the bug bit me. I want to stared designing and creating my own plans from scratch. This is exactly what I needed. I'm hoping that I can design planes to scale and then cut them on a laser. If you can think of any shortcut like where to find already completed plans that I can just cut so I can try my laser before learning cad that would me great too. Thanks
Thanks! Happy to hear you're excited for more! I have a series coming up this weekend on how to start designing the wings. After that I will get back to the fuselage and show how to add longerons and stringers! Stay tuned. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and tap the notification bell so that you know as soon as those videos are up! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!
I'm interested in the topic of rc-plane design, and an experienced F360-user. Your use of existing drawings is excellent. Your way of adapting / editing & mirroring the vertical supports seems very UN-intuitive, over-complicated and slow. I wonder why you choose this process. Perhaps all will become clear. >> suggestion[s] 1. Make sure your timeline is turned on 2. ALWAY start off by making every distinct part a 'component'; They are easier to align etc. at a later stage 3. Make your first 'component' called assy [assembly] 4. put all canvasses under this 'assy' component just like you did Make a new component called RIB and activate it [if need be] 5. make your first drawing just like you did using the canvas 6. extrude the first 'rib' just like you did >> make it a new COMPONENT 7. move the first rib in position just like you did 8. create a pattern just like you did 9. go back in the timeline >> open the rib-sketch 10. draw ONE vertical support where you need it 11. WHILE STILL IN THE DRAWING: mirror vertical support in the drawing using the vertical plane as you reference >> finish the drawing 12. go back in the timeline >> edit the rib-extrude 13. ctrl-click new vertical supports to include them in the rib >> they too will be extruded now >> ALL IS WELL WITH YOUR RIBS NOW. All you need is a bit of BBQ-sauce
Hey there -- As with any design software there are 100+ ways to get to a result. Sounds like you found a way that works for you! The tips you provided are excellent. Thank you for sharing!
Great video! I'm especially excited for the episode on wings. I've been designing and building RC planes for years and I'm capable with 2D CAD, but I'm trying to build my 3D modelling skills so I can take my designs to the next level. This will be the perfect video series to help me. Thank you
Thanks Thomas for taking the time to pay a nice compliment! Much appreciated. It's rewarding to hear that you are able to get something from this video to help you with your future building projects! The wings episodes are going to start coming out this coming weekend. Having to break them down into 3 parts to keep them consumable. Lots of ground to cover. Hope you enjoy them as much as this one. Cheers! 🍻
excellent work sir ..I've been following you since you posted first picture of this project on Instagram. i appreciate you sharing this with us. keep them coming... :)
Thank you! So happy to hear you're enjoying my work on Instagram enough to also keep up with how it goes here in RUclips. Much appreciated, will do my best to keep them videos coming.
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you could have used the "trim" tool and trimmed out the intersecting lines in that first shape so that it was just one body before you extruded it also.
just wanna start learning how to improve my skill in Autodesk Inventor, I want to make a RC airplane hope fully your video will make me clear if I have a problem,thank you
XYZ origins for your lines layout is typically the theoretical apex at the nose, not to be confused with the actual tip of the radome. Also max extents or trailing edges are defined as theoretical vertices, not to be confused with manufacturing constrained limits of material boundaries. From these points all else is measured, calculated, analyzed etc. At least in the McDonnell Douglas and Boeing and Japanese world's. Not sure about Lockheed and Airbus, or the non-free world.
I really like ur explanation and step by step video, but i want to ask u something u designings and planes are all passenger planes, can u make us different kind of plane designing and building, such as aerobatic or jets!! 🙏 keep doing bro
Hey there! Thank you for the request. Have you seen the tutorial I did on the Nose or Empennage sections, the method that use there would apply to design a boat hull. Let me know if that helps!
Just subbed. Nice work! I am wanting to design an Argus CP-107 as plastic model kits are so expensive. I'd like to design one and 3d print it. I'll be watching these vids.
Hi Thank you very much for your tutorial. This is a very good tutorial. I wonder if the master can publish the modeling process of Gulfstream G650, thank you
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the production value... It's one big learning experience. And thank you for the vote of confidence, hope to be helpful for many RC hobbyist.... Also keep up the good work with your channel. Looking forward to the next episode.
Great video!:) What did you use to make the rendered photos of the model in this video? Did you use the internal render in fusion 360, or another program?
Terrance, do I need to add the rear-view canvas to my Cessna 182? I finally have the LH, RH, and front right now, all matching perfectly. Haven't done the foot-print (top) view yet. Fingers crossed!!
Why not have history enabled? Seems a lot of making and deleting could be avoided. Hiw are you managing the nonsymetrical fuselage as the thickness and shape is not consistent as you drew it?
during my working life is used 2D CAD and you video has encouraged me to get to grips with Fusion360 and draw out a HP42 which I started to build 50 yrs ago but never finished it. Im getting to grips with it but have found another problem I don't seam to be able to get around. I how do I copy the sketch of the from the front former of the fuselage to the back so I can made the profile changes need before I loft the skin?
Hi Laurie - Sounds like a great project that deserves completing! The way that you transfer from one sketch, or body to another sketch is by using the projection tool. This is covered in the following episodes. Let me know if you can't get it figured out and I will do my best to help out. Cheers!
Thank you & welcome to the channel! Happy to hear the vids are working for ya! I had no idea that HobbyKing posted the video. I just went looking for it and didn't see it on their page. Do you remember where you saw it? Would love to thank them for sharing.
Ahhh, ok. That was very nice of him. I'll have to thank him for sharing! I appreciate you letting me know. It's really cool knowing guys out there are diving into designing and sharing the videos so guys like you can also get into designing planes. 🙌🙌 That's what it's all about. Cheers!
You’re content is stunning. I really appreciate your time to do, edit an explain every single thing. Regards from aircraft and design lover and respect from Toronto.
Hi Felipe! Thank you for taking a moment out of your day to leave this awesome compliment. It's always a good feeling when people out there notice the work I've put into making a video. Do you do any airplane designing?
So happy that I found your instruction video. This is right the thing what I've been searching for. Subscription and bell activated :-) Will there be also a closing video how to export e.g. the ribs to a cnc milling software? In my case I use a fairly unknowm Software called Galaad. It's a AllInOne 2 1/2D CAD/CAM solution from France for isel cnc machines. It's able to import dxf, stp, igs, nc and other data formats. Regards from Hamburg/Germany
Hello! Welcome to the Channel, happy you found it. Yes, there is a closing video that is available, here is the link ruclips.net/video/FwBBkbOv8-M/видео.html Cheers!
Thanks! Fusion has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, most things are fairly straightforward. I've not worked with Maya, so can't comment on the difference, but sounds like Fusion fits the bill for you. Thanks for taking the time to add a comment!
That was amazing! I would like to follow along in fusion 360 on my PC. Could you please provide links to the airplane images? I looked around now but cannot find the exact ones.
Thanks Carl! Welcome to the channel! I have provided the diagrams on my website in the right column here: www.rccad2vr.com/rc-airplane-design-build-episodes/how-i-designed-a-rc-airplane-in-fusion-360 I try to keep most of the commonly asked questions and tips that I mistakenly left out of the videos on the site. Each video has an accompanying page. I hope that helps. Let me know if you run into any issues. Have fun, Cheers!
Great videos I've been watching for a while and has inspired me to try and design my own plane im going to learn how to use the software on a boeing 777. I only have one problem. When I split the body of the first former and then try to delete the second half it just replaces it with the whole body again. They only way I seem to be able to do it, is buy removing the body not deleting it. Wouod this have any affect on the rest of my design in the future?
Hi Craig, super happy to hear that the vids have inspired you to start working on a 777! I remember flying on one when they first came out and I just remember how quiet they were back then. Nice Planes. Sorry to hear you're having this problem. Without seeing what you are working on it's really hard to tell what can be happening here. The first thing that comes to mind is that you may have two bodies in the same place that are over lapping one another. Check the component browser to see if there is an extra "phantom" part. Hopefully that helps.
Excellent video.. I do have a bone to pick with Autodesk (who make fusion 360), as at one time, they had a free version of fusion, which I liked, so used it to develop some work, over a years worth. My work at that time was saved in an account at Autodesk, without any easy way to save it locally. Autodesk decided to force users to pay for use, and in the process, my years work vanished. Since than, I discovered Design Spark, which is a later development from somebody else and has a free version, which has a much more common approach, thus making it much easier to learn, and saves locally in many different formats and is at least as solid as fusion as a program. I am just saying be careful with your time as in my case Autodesk could care less. They appear to have gone back to a free version, but that does nothing for me.
Thanks for the videos, very well done and informative, yet still easy to follow. I just have one question on your workflow, I see you are modelling the internal structure to follow the blueprint, but what about the skinning material? Either balsa or composites, they will inevitably end up out of scale or did I miss something?
Hey there! Happy to hear you're getting something out of the video! Since I was working with fairly low quality 3 view diagrams of the L-1011 I was not as concerned about being 100% accurate to scale since it would be next to impossible. Also I did not set the fuselage diameter to match the real airplane. It's a near approximation, so you did not miss anything 🙂 The skin will most likely be balsa and fiberglass. I have yet to experiment to see what will work best. Thanks for the comment and questions!
I can see that my learning curve with Fusion360 is gonna be a little steep. I'm coming off of 4 semesters of SolidWorks and some of the processes you did (like mirroring) are not intuitive. Great video though and thanks for making these.
Hi John, thanks for the comment. Sorry to hear it's not as intuitive, hopefully that's not too much of a drag of your transition. There are many ways to do the same thing. This is just how I prefer to work. It's easier for me to see and reason the plane working on one side. Another way may work better for your designing style. Best of luck on your transition!
This is awesome but alas I'm not this smart can you help me out I'm trying to get templates for the dumas dragon rapide to make a rc plane to cut and trace on foam
Was the purpose of the video to introduce a complete CAD novice to Fusion 360? Some of your viewers may get a tad frustrated without a basic working knowledge and understanding of CAD and the Fusion 360 environment. I did learn a couple of tricks, and thanks for that, but that's cause I've been messing with Fusion for a while and have some decent 2D CAD as well as CAM experience. I'll keep following, cause I'm sure I'll learn something. However, I do recommend for the neophytes to explore some very basic tutorials, just to grapple with navigating the software.
Hi Joe... All great points! You are correct, some basic understanding of CAD and Fusion 360 would certainly help. My intention with this series of videos is to give more of an introduction and behind the scenes peak into how I am going about designing my aircraft, rather than a full deep dive into CAD and Fusion 360, since I've been getting a lot of instagram questions about it. This being my very first video, I've learned a few things on delivery, so I'll be splitting the next set of Fusion 360 videos into more bite sized chunks with a little more detail to fill in some of the gaps. Your feedback definitely helps. Thanks for subscribing, I very much appreciate it! Glad you were able to get a couple of nuggets from this one as well. Cheers 🍻
14;46 when you select patern and rectangular pattern I'm stuck off I try to follow all the steps but I can't go forward to copy the circle I selected on 10 pieces like you do I hope my language is specific enough to be understandable
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At 3:30 I begin adding diagram canvases, if you want to scale your design to an exact dimension, watch this video I published on how to calibrate a canvas in F360 👉 ruclips.net/video/ui-rieDDdTQ/видео.html
I realize I am pretty off topic but do anyone know of a good place to stream new series online ?
@Ephraim Musa lately I have been using FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)
@Quinn Jorge yup, been using Flixzone for years myself :D
@Quinn Jorge Thank you, I went there and it seems like a nice service :D I appreciate it!!
@Ephraim Musa happy to help :)
The fact that you did this and made a video to help people impressed me. But after watching you do this on a trackpad and not with a mouse is actually amazing and my hat is off to you sir.
Thank you AJ for the kind comment! Yeah, many are shocked that I use a track pad. I switched many years ago from a mouse. My wrists would end up hurting badly after just a short while. It was tough switching, but now with all of the gestures built in, it's second nature to me.... A mouse feels strange now 😁 - thanks again for taking the time to leave a nice comment!
I did all my engineering school using a glass multitouch trackpad MacBook Pro. A mouse felt like a downgrade. Especially with native Mac CAD software that supports gestures.
Best Fusion Tutorial I have seen yet. Thank you!
Awesome! happy to hear it's helping you out. Cheers!
For decades I have been working more bad than right in 2D and have made countless attempts to learn the design in 3D. Today everyone prints in 3D or creates parts on portal mills ... and I want to be able to do that too. All my attempts with Rhino, Freecad or Turbocad always failed but with your channel I finally dare to hope. Getting started with Fusion 360 is not as hard as I thought, you explain absolutely great, your tutorials are perfect, exactly what I want to do and for the first time I'm making progress. It will take time, but finally I see a chance to design my childhood dream .. a C-119 Boxcar ... and that before my retirement ;-) Thank you so much for sharing your skills and I sincerely hope that you will produce many more videos like this.
Hi Lars! Thank you so much for such a thoughtful and generous comment! CAD can be a very challenging thing to learn. In the past I had given it several tries and also failed. For me, it took a while to grasp the concept of working on a two dimensional screen in 3 dimensions. I'm happy to hear that the way I laid things out in this video series has been the very thing you needed to get over the hurdles CAD can present! Cheers to that! The C-110 Boxcar looks like a beautiful aircraft! There is another fellow I know of who is also designing a twin boom military airplane. There are some interesting design challenges there, but you'll get it figured out ;) -- I've got many more videos in the pipeline, all the way to maiden flight.
@@RCCAD2VR Yes, that's it and designing in 3D is a hard topic to teach to oneself. You are really the first one who paves the way to this fascinating world in a step by step and understandable way. Now I'm sitting in front of my results of the last weeks with Fusion360 and can't believe I did it. :-D ok, but to be honest, I realized that it's better not to start with the most complex machine like a C-119 ... but my C-123 in 1:12 scale instead is already making very good progress so the C-119 out of the Film "The Flight of the Phoenix" from 1965 comes later ;-) The more I learn with your help, the more fun it is.I love it. Thank you Terrance :-)
Absolutely love the fact you are documenting everything and will to share.
With that very very clear technique of explaining im able to learn with 0 experience before on 3d building 😮 if everything was that easy in school also will be great
A symmetrical body is a perfect body and to replicate a design, mirror is the greatest strategy in all CAD designs.
holy ghost can teach like this . buddy very patient and spoken slowly and well. excellent teaching method. amen .thank you.
Loved the video and the way you talk and explain! Very few people have this skill of keeping the audience hooked! Thank you for taking out time to make this playlist!
I already design build & fly rc planes but always wanted to design planes in 3D, few years back I had installed the Fusion 360 but never got started..I hope to start now... your video is very helpful.. good job
That's awesome! Fusion 360 's learning curve, if you're new to 3D modeling or CAD, is a bit steep. Glad to hear this is inspiring you to give it another go! I've got several more videos planned. Let me know how your project comes along as you start making progress.
Which planes have you built?
@@RCCAD2VR I build sports, Aerobatic & F3A planes, my passion is flying precision aerobatics & 3D flying. For many years I have been using coreldraw to design planes, but I always wanted to design planes in 3D. I mostly love to design & experiment on better aerobatic designs..
hello; thanks for all your work!! as a french, i really appreciate the way you speak, i mean slowly. it's very important for french guys.....your videos are very helpful
Hi Emmanuel! It's exciting to hear that you are able to follow the video and that my delivery is intelligible! Happy to know I've been helpful, despite the language barrier! 🇫🇷 C'est excitant d'apprendre que vous êtes capable de suivre la vidéo et que ma livraison est intelligible! Heureux de savoir que j'ai été utile, malgré la barrière de la langue!
This is a magnificent series. I just built a Mig15 from an old, inaccurate plan, and I had to spend an age, figuring out a ton of stuff and guestimating it. Now I can use this to get it absolutely correct. top marks, Sir!
Thanks Man!! Much appreciated, love hearing that the vids are helping, that what it's all about! How'd the MiG-15 turn out?
@@RCCAD2VR It's only a 24" span rubber-powered job, but it took me two years - on and off - to finish due its complexity. I enlarged an old plan, which greatly exaggerated the inaccuracies. I only needed the outline but guesstimating the diameter and hand-drawing the circular laminated formers, so that the longerons ran perfectly true, took ages. One was 1mm out, so there is a 0.5mm kink in the fuselage at that point. It's almost invisible, but it looks like the Grand Canyon to me!
I wanted to stretch myself, so I had already chosen the hardest colour scheme I could find - big rectangles that are symmetrical both left to right and top to bottom - which left nowhere to hide if the aircraft wasn't built perfectly symmetrical. It came out pretty well in the end but, oh boy, do I wish I had a CAD drawn plan to start with! I will definitely be putting my next build, an E.E. Lightning, onto Fusion360. At some point, I will make a video of the Mig15 when I have some flying footage, and post it on my channel.
Many thanks, again. I can't wait for the next installment.
There are many good tutorials on the internet and RUclips, but this was a cut above the rest.
Excellent work, excited to binge the series! Most helpful for me was that you were using Fusion360, and modelling a scale RC aircraft.
I work with naval design, but your video is helping me a lot with this tool. Thank you very much
Very cool man! That's awesome to hear. What naval design are you working on?
Fusion on a touchpad...your a madman...lol Awesome video.
😄 it's second nature to me these days. Thanks for the compliment, glad you enjoyed the video!
Огромное спасибо за столь подробную наглядность и практику. Для новичков в проектировании это потрясающий урок. (Thank you so much for such detailed visualization and practice. For those new to design, this is an amazing tutorial.)
This is really, really amazing! I'm by no means a F 360 expert but I do know of a better way to build and extrude those fuselage formers/bulkheads. I traced out the sketch just like Terrence but I used the trim tool on the sketch to get rid of all the intersecting lines. After that you can select the whole shape without having to select each piece of the model to extrude it.
U are a mad genius and thank you I have been wanting to learn fusion to build a sport jet “turbine”
Thanks Dustin! You've got an awesome project ahead of you. Glad to know these tutorials are helping you get started on it! Cheers!
I love you my brother. Thats exactly what i am looking for. As i understande by first video that tutorial is magnificent.
Thank you so much for making these. Just downloaded the program and three views for possible projects!
Thanks!! That's great to hear! Let me know if you need any help as you learn along!
Just what the doctor ordered!
Kidding aside, I am designing a CL-415 and was trying to use FreeCAD, but as helpful as that community is, having a good set of introductory material is simply more efficient. And then I discovered your video's. So Fusion360 it is ;-)
Thanks for taking a huge chunk out of the learning curve!
The CL-415 is Awesome! That will be a really fun project. I've also considered building that one.
Welcome to the F360 RC Modelers crew! I haven't worked with FreeCAD, so can't say anything about it but I think you'll enjoy working with F360 once you learn some of its idiosyncrasies. So happy to hear that the videos are helping you get through some of the steep learning curve that comes with 3D modeling.
Keep me posted on your progress with the Superscooper! Would love to see how it comes along. Cheers
You'll have to get the paid version as they've just limited the model size, and stripped the majority of functionality, out of the free version!
@@RCCAD2VR I have only just switched to Fusion360, so there is not much yet. But I do keep a build log at starbase55.com/cl415.
@@simonbaxter8001 NOT True!
Great start to the series! Watched it in entirety and motivated to download Fusion 360 and apply steps learned. Looking forward to the next one!
That's so awesome to hear! Glad you were able to get some inspiration from this first introduction into designing your own airplane!
this is the absolut best Video about Fusion 360 I've ever seen!!
I thank you very much and I hope you make many many more!!
Hey Thomas, thank you for the Huge Compliment!! Glad to hear the rave review on this video... Lots more videos to come! Hope the others that I have on my channel so far works as well for you! Cheers!
Thank you sooo much! I am in the process of trying to make a roomba plane and this is very helpful!
Awesome man! Good luck on your build!
@@RCCAD2VR thanks!
Absolutely loving these videos, so so helpful. I've been looking for a new CAD program for designing my rc aircraft for a while now. Seeing you explaining each step is saving me hours of research and fascinating to watch. Great work, please please keep them coming 👍
Hi Mark! So happy to hear you're loving the videos and best of all saving you time! I'm really trying to do my best to demystify and bridge the knowledge gap for everyone interested in Model Building, seems like I'm on the right track from your feedback! What CAD software were you using before?
Hi. Awesome project. Trying to follow along but not getting the same results. First I have never used fusion 360 or any cad program.
I have been involved with model RC well over 50 years. Built thousands of kits and thousands more scratch build the scratch builds were from scaling very detailed models.
What ya doing is great. Great job. I don’t know why my canvas doesn’t work out.
Hey there! It's awesome that you are giving Fusion 360 and CAD design a go! Happy to hear you're enjoying the project. What issue are you having with the canvas? Just a tip as well, each episode has a companion webpage that I release at the same time that tries to answer many of the questions I get to help clarify anything in the episode. For this episode check out this page. www.rccad2vr.com/rc-airplane-design-build-episodes/how-i-designed-a-rc-airplane-in-fusion-360 Let me know if that help any. Cheers.
I'm not making any type of plane designs but really enjoyed this video. I've been using Fusion 360 for a few years now off and on to design parts for my antique car, 1940 Ford. I will check out your website.
Thanks, Peter
That's awesome Peter! It's nice to hear that others outside of the airplane world are able to get something valuable from the videos I produce! Cheers!
Well done. A very good explanation of Fusion processes. Keep up the good work.
Thanks you! Nice to hear my approach works for you
Great Video - Thanks for Publishing and Sharing.
Ma man out here doing cad without a mouse. Mad man. Jkjk really appreciate your work man
Thanks! I stopped using a mouse years ago thanks to them hurting my wrist. I'm so used to using a track pad now I don't even think about it, all muscle memory.
Godly Tutorial!!! Keep up the good work!
I was just thinking about getting my boy started with CAD'ing up an RC plane. Will probably use SolidWorks though...I would think it is easier than Fushion 360. Regardless, should keep him busy for a long time! 3D printing would be our goal.
I am thrilled highly and have enjoyed this video by excitement and I want to give 1000000 likes from my side by I cannot .
I hit subscribe almost immediately. Thank you for the information sir!
Awesome! Welcome aboard.
Thank you very much, just followed this tutorial and found it very clear and concise, excellent work. Looking forward to doing the next ones.
That's awesome man!! Glad to hear this was a straight forward tutorial for you to follow! Cheers.
I am designing a rc p51 for a final project because it doesn’t have a big circular tube would I create a base for the widest part (canopy) and then follow the nose video or would I do something else? Great video though
Just found you , it’s refreshing to see true engineering. This is the hobby, today’s foam cup planes has made everyone a pilot. And the whole five screws the use makes them flight specialists. All these video’s praising foam planes was making sick. Excellent work, I’m watching every episode to see how she comes out. Beautiful I’m sure. 😊
Great video, tried other tutorials and programs but your video is by far the best.
Extra points for the relaxing background music !
Thank you Friso! Glad you are enjoying the tutorial and that it has been helpful!!
Cheers!
@@RCCAD2VR it's more than helpful, finally get to learn the next steps in designing rc planes thanks to your tutorials. Keep up the amazing work !
@@frisovandevijver8893 That's fantastic! Will do my best as the videos progress.
Don't stop! thank you!!!
SUBSCRIBED!!!
I’ve even in the past searched for RC F360 stuff and never got recommended your channel.
Really appreciate you doing this as I want to scratch-build a plane and use F360, 3-D printing and balsa/ply to build it.
Also hoping to get my small UV-diode laser, to if-not cut the wood, at least mark it and make it easy for an X-acto blade to follow.
So, pretty jazzed about what you’re doing 😊 Thanks!
Glad you found the channel, welcome!! Good luck with your build!
thanks for your awesome Video's, hope you inspire a young generation to follow.
Thank you for this, I started printing planes from plans I purchased online and then the bug bit me. I want to stared designing and creating my own plans from scratch. This is exactly what I needed. I'm hoping that I can design planes to scale and then cut them on a laser. If you can think of any shortcut like where to find already completed plans that I can just cut so I can try my laser before learning cad that would me great too. Thanks
Excellent production quality, thank you. The video is more of an F360 tutorial than a design tutorial.
Thanks though. Cool software.
Tried to hit two birds with one stone...sounds like I may have missed the mark a bit for ya. Glad you still appreciated the video. Cheers.
Bravo c'est vraiment bien expliqué car je suis novice sur fusion 360 et j'arrive quand même a comprendre !!! encore bravo et merci
De rien! Heureux d'apprendre que vous apprenez des vidéos! Merci pour le compliment!
@@RCCAD2VR c'est très gentil de m'avoir répondu car je regarde vos vidéos très loin de chez vous à l'île de la REUNION dans l'Océan Indien
Tats amazing. Kindly show building longerons
Thanks! Happy to hear you're excited for more! I have a series coming up this weekend on how to start designing the wings. After that I will get back to the fuselage and show how to add longerons and stringers! Stay tuned. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe and tap the notification bell so that you know as soon as those videos are up! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!
I'm interested in the topic of rc-plane design, and an experienced F360-user. Your use of existing drawings is excellent. Your way of adapting / editing & mirroring the vertical supports seems very UN-intuitive, over-complicated and slow. I wonder why you choose this process. Perhaps all will become clear.
>> suggestion[s]
1. Make sure your timeline is turned on
2. ALWAY start off by making every distinct part a 'component'; They are easier to align etc. at a later stage
3. Make your first 'component' called assy [assembly]
4. put all canvasses under this 'assy' component just like you did
Make a new component called RIB and activate it [if need be]
5. make your first drawing just like you did using the canvas
6. extrude the first 'rib' just like you did >> make it a new COMPONENT
7. move the first rib in position just like you did
8. create a pattern just like you did
9. go back in the timeline >> open the rib-sketch
10. draw ONE vertical support where you need it
11. WHILE STILL IN THE DRAWING: mirror vertical support in the drawing using the vertical plane as you reference >> finish the drawing
12. go back in the timeline >> edit the rib-extrude
13. ctrl-click new vertical supports to include them in the rib >> they too will be extruded now
>> ALL IS WELL WITH YOUR RIBS NOW. All you need is a bit of BBQ-sauce
Hey there -- As with any design software there are 100+ ways to get to a result. Sounds like you found a way that works for you! The tips you provided are excellent. Thank you for sharing!
Superb tutorial 👍
Thank you for taking a moment to leave a nice comment! Glad to hear you enjoyed this tutorial!
Great video! I'm especially excited for the episode on wings. I've been designing and building RC planes for years and I'm capable with 2D CAD, but I'm trying to build my 3D modelling skills so I can take my designs to the next level. This will be the perfect video series to help me. Thank you
Thanks Thomas for taking the time to pay a nice compliment! Much appreciated. It's rewarding to hear that you are able to get something from this video to help you with your future building projects! The wings episodes are going to start coming out this coming weekend. Having to break them down into 3 parts to keep them consumable. Lots of ground to cover. Hope you enjoy them as much as this one. Cheers! 🍻
I'm going to watch all of your videos on airplane design but my objective is to 3D print the parts. I'm going to try to do the King Air 360.
excellent work sir ..I've been following you since you posted first picture of this project on Instagram. i appreciate you sharing this with us. keep them coming... :)
Thank you! So happy to hear you're enjoying my work on Instagram enough to also keep up with how it goes here in RUclips. Much appreciated, will do my best to keep them videos coming.
For whatever is holy to you _please_ consider investing into a 6-DoF 3D Workspace Manipulator like the *3DConnexion SpaceMouse* Series ( or anything equivalent ) 😐
Thanks for the recommendation!
Jst amazing technology of model making.
Cheers! Happy to hear your appreciation for the work.
you could have used the "trim" tool and trimmed out the intersecting lines in that first shape so that it was just one body before you extruded it also.
Thanks for the Tip!
awesome stuff ...thanks
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Very clear and concise, thanks for that.
Hey there - Glad to hear it! Thank you for watching, hope you enjoy rest of the series!
just wanna start learning how to improve my skill in Autodesk Inventor, I want to make a RC airplane
hope fully your video will make me clear if I have a problem,thank you
Hey there - I hope the videos are helpful for you as well. Coming from inventor should be helpful as it's in the Autodesk family. Best of luck!
XYZ origins for your lines layout is typically the theoretical apex at the nose, not to be confused with the actual tip of the radome. Also max extents or trailing edges are defined as theoretical vertices, not to be confused with manufacturing constrained limits of material boundaries. From these points all else is measured, calculated, analyzed etc. At least in the McDonnell Douglas and Boeing and Japanese world's. Not sure about Lockheed and Airbus, or the non-free world.
I really like ur explanation and step by step video, but i want to ask u something u designings and planes are all passenger planes, can u make us different kind of plane designing and building, such as aerobatic or jets!! 🙏 keep doing bro
Hey there! Thanks for the request. As of right of right now my focus is on civil aviation. I may venture into aerobatics in the future 🤫
You are the best!
Thank you Stefano!
Amazing love your tutorials!! Please make one on a deep V boat hull I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the front.
Hey there! Thank you for the request. Have you seen the tutorial I did on the Nose or Empennage sections, the method that use there would apply to design a boat hull. Let me know if that helps!
Excellent
Just subbed. Nice work! I am wanting to design an Argus CP-107 as plastic model kits are so expensive. I'd like to design one and 3d print it. I'll be watching these vids.
That's awesome! A very belated Welcome to the channel!
Awesome tutorial!!!
Can anyone give me advice on where to find the three view (or 3 plans) drawings?
its amasing i love it thank you
Happy to know you like it so far. Best wishes as you work through the tutorials to create your own design. 🙌
nice just what i wanted
Hi Thank you very much for your tutorial. This is a very good tutorial. I wonder if the master can publish the modeling process of Gulfstream G650, thank you
Hey there -- I will do some research into this plane. May be a good project to work on. Thanks for the request!
Very nice video Terrance! Very well produced and edited and nice content! Big thumbs up, your channel will do well on RUclips :)
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the production value... It's one big learning experience. And thank you for the vote of confidence, hope to be helpful for many RC hobbyist.... Also keep up the good work with your channel. Looking forward to the next episode.
Great video!:) What did you use to make the rendered photos of the model in this video? Did you use the internal render in fusion 360, or another program?
great great job!!
Merci beaucoup!
Terrance, do I need to add the rear-view canvas to my Cessna 182? I finally have the LH, RH, and front right now, all matching perfectly. Haven't done the foot-print (top) view yet. Fingers crossed!!
Why not have history enabled? Seems a lot of making and deleting could be avoided. Hiw are you managing the nonsymetrical fuselage as the thickness and shape is not consistent as you drew it?
Terrance thank you for taking the time to put this together. This is so great content and clear. I was wondering how i going to do this.
Thanks! Happy to hear you are appreciating the series!
very nice video
during my working life is used 2D CAD and you video has encouraged me to get to grips with Fusion360 and draw out a HP42 which I started to build 50 yrs ago but never finished it. Im getting to grips with it but have found another problem I don't seam to be able to get around. I how do I copy the sketch of the from the front former of the fuselage to the back so I can made the profile changes need before I loft the skin?
Hi Laurie - Sounds like a great project that deserves completing! The way that you transfer from one sketch, or body to another sketch is by using the projection tool. This is covered in the following episodes.
Let me know if you can't get it figured out and I will do my best to help out. Cheers!
Hobbyking post your vid on facebook .
Im hooked already , awesome .
Big salute from the uk..👍👍😉🇬🇧
Thank you & welcome to the channel! Happy to hear the vids are working for ya!
I had no idea that HobbyKing posted the video. I just went looking for it and didn't see it on their page. Do you remember where you saw it? Would love to thank them for sharing.
@@RCCAD2VR I'll will have a look again for you..👍👍
@@RCCAD2VR My apology, it was a gentle man called Neil Frisby who posted on the Hobbyking web page.
😉😉👍
Ahhh, ok. That was very nice of him. I'll have to thank him for sharing! I appreciate you letting me know. It's really cool knowing guys out there are diving into designing and sharing the videos so guys like you can also get into designing planes. 🙌🙌 That's what it's all about. Cheers!
You’re content is stunning. I really appreciate your time to do, edit an explain every single thing. Regards from aircraft and design lover and respect from Toronto.
Hi Felipe! Thank you for taking a moment out of your day to leave this awesome compliment. It's always a good feeling when people out there notice the work I've put into making a video. Do you do any airplane designing?
@@RCCAD2VR I’m looking forward to build a plane using only my Creavity ender 3, do you have any intention to do so?
Respect once again!
fantastic!
Thanks Jason! Much more to come.
Next video how to build a fuselage for rc jets like hal tejas f22 etc and how to mount single edf double edf love your videos
Thank u sir fr this tutorial..
If you ever need some plastic or aluminum proto parts machined pro-bono let me know. I would love to contribute. Love watching.
Thanks for the offer Paul! That's really awesome of you. If I run into challenges there, I'll look you up! Thanks for watching!
good one
Thank you! Much appreciated.
made my day:)
Great video man!! It really helps. Can i have the blueprint?
So happy that I found your instruction video. This is right the thing what I've been searching for.
Subscription and bell activated :-)
Will there be also a closing video how to export e.g. the ribs to a cnc milling software?
In my case I use a fairly unknowm Software called Galaad. It's a AllInOne 2 1/2D CAD/CAM solution from France for isel cnc machines. It's able to import dxf, stp, igs, nc and other data formats.
Regards from Hamburg/Germany
Hello! Welcome to the Channel, happy you found it. Yes, there is a closing video that is available, here is the link ruclips.net/video/FwBBkbOv8-M/видео.html Cheers!
Great thanks 👍
it's a very useful video and similar to how it could be done in Maya. looks less fuss in this software though
Thanks! Fusion has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, most things are fairly straightforward. I've not worked with Maya, so can't comment on the difference, but sounds like Fusion fits the bill for you. Thanks for taking the time to add a comment!
That was amazing! I would like to follow along in fusion 360 on my PC. Could you please provide links to the airplane images? I looked around now but cannot find the exact ones.
Thanks Carl! Welcome to the channel! I have provided the diagrams on my website in the right column here: www.rccad2vr.com/rc-airplane-design-build-episodes/how-i-designed-a-rc-airplane-in-fusion-360
I try to keep most of the commonly asked questions and tips that I mistakenly left out of the videos on the site. Each video has an accompanying page. I hope that helps. Let me know if you run into any issues. Have fun, Cheers!
@@RCCAD2VR thank you I see what you mean. Ah nice, I will look around there when I get stuck. Thank you so much!
👍 you're welcome man, anytime.
Great videos I've been watching for a while and has inspired me to try and design my own plane im going to learn how to use the software on a boeing 777. I only have one problem. When I split the body of the first former and then try to delete the second half it just replaces it with the whole body again. They only way I seem to be able to do it, is buy removing the body not deleting it. Wouod this have any affect on the rest of my design in the future?
Hi Craig, super happy to hear that the vids have inspired you to start working on a 777! I remember flying on one when they first came out and I just remember how quiet they were back then. Nice Planes. Sorry to hear you're having this problem. Without seeing what you are working on it's really hard to tell what can be happening here. The first thing that comes to mind is that you may have two bodies in the same place that are over lapping one another. Check the component browser to see if there is an extra "phantom" part. Hopefully that helps.
@Craig Sweeney, I am encountering ths same result. Were you able to resolve this issue?
Excellent video.. I do have a bone to pick with Autodesk (who make fusion 360), as at one time, they had a free version of fusion, which I liked, so used it to develop some work, over a years worth. My work at that time was saved in an account at Autodesk, without any easy way to save it locally. Autodesk decided to force users to pay for use, and in the process, my years work vanished. Since than, I discovered Design Spark, which is a later development from somebody else and has a free version, which has a much more common approach, thus making it much easier to learn, and saves locally in many different formats and is at least as solid as fusion as a program. I am just saying be careful with your time as in my case Autodesk could care less. They appear to have gone back to a free version, but that does nothing for me.
I'm with you on Autocad purchase approach....not happy with loosing all my stuff and couldn't get it back after the paid sunscriptions
Nice
Thanks for the videos, very well done and informative, yet still easy to follow. I just have one question on your workflow, I see you are modelling the internal structure to follow the blueprint, but what about the skinning material? Either balsa or composites, they will inevitably end up out of scale or did I miss something?
Hey there! Happy to hear you're getting something out of the video! Since I was working with fairly low quality 3 view diagrams of the L-1011 I was not as concerned about being 100% accurate to scale since it would be next to impossible. Also I did not set the fuselage diameter to match the real airplane. It's a near approximation, so you did not miss anything 🙂 The skin will most likely be balsa and fiberglass. I have yet to experiment to see what will work best. Thanks for the comment and questions!
I can see that my learning curve with Fusion360 is gonna be a little steep. I'm coming off of 4 semesters of SolidWorks and some of the processes you did (like mirroring) are not intuitive.
Great video though and thanks for making these.
Hi John, thanks for the comment. Sorry to hear it's not as intuitive, hopefully that's not too much of a drag of your transition. There are many ways to do the same thing. This is just how I prefer to work. It's easier for me to see and reason the plane working on one side. Another way may work better for your designing style. Best of luck on your transition!
thanks for these really great videos!! My question is, how do you create angles in blades such as the ones used in jet engines?????
Hey there, you'll want to use a method similar to the one I demonstrate in the wing design tutorial. Check it out and let me know if that helps.
Would you give tutorial how to make rc plane plan in scale of black bird SR71 or MIG 29, please...thank you in advance
Thanks for the request!
Hi Terence! These videos are really exciting! Thank you for your great work! Could you share the canvas images? Sorry, I didn't find that... :(
This is awesome but alas I'm not this smart can you help me out I'm trying to get templates for the dumas dragon rapide to make a rc plane to cut and trace on foam
cheers mate
Thanks man!
Was the purpose of the video to introduce a complete CAD novice to Fusion 360? Some of your viewers may get a tad frustrated without a basic working knowledge and understanding of CAD and the Fusion 360 environment. I did learn a couple of tricks, and thanks for that, but that's cause I've been messing with Fusion for a while and have some decent 2D CAD as well as CAM experience. I'll keep following, cause I'm sure I'll learn something. However, I do recommend for the neophytes to explore some very basic tutorials, just to grapple with navigating the software.
Hi Joe... All great points! You are correct, some basic understanding of CAD and Fusion 360 would certainly help. My intention with this series of videos is to give more of an introduction and behind the scenes peak into how I am going about designing my aircraft, rather than a full deep dive into CAD and Fusion 360, since I've been getting a lot of instagram questions about it. This being my very first video, I've learned a few things on delivery, so I'll be splitting the next set of Fusion 360 videos into more bite sized chunks with a little more detail to fill in some of the gaps. Your feedback definitely helps.
Thanks for subscribing, I very much appreciate it! Glad you were able to get a couple of nuggets from this one as well. Cheers 🍻
Sir can you post a video on landing gear mechanism design in fusion 360
Thanks for the request. Landing gear is a tough one, but I'll give it some thought and see what I may be able to do. Cheers!
14;46 when you select patern and rectangular pattern I'm stuck off I try to follow all the steps but I can't go forward to copy the circle I selected on 10 pieces like you do
I hope my language is specific enough to be understandable