@Pdwhite thanks, yes, focus on the kits please, I will need you when I want to buy the Motors, ESCs, Props and such from you (don’t forget to add that option when you are getting ready to accept orders for batch 3)
@asteronaut thanks for answering the questions, do you mind telling me which software you have used?
As mentioned, I have some amateur skills in Blender, but that isn’t a construction / CAD software
Do you have a more up-to-date CAD model of the front and back plates? As Tom Busey mentioned the holes for the arms and for the gooseneck bars are too narrow. If you don’t have the model at hand don’t worry about it, I’ll just move the holes.
Could you share the CAD model for these red (3D printed?) parts?
Is there an existing Bill of Materials for all of the bolts, spacers and nuts used in the project? If not I could work through the model and put a list together.
Can I ask why there are so many holes in the front and back plates? I’m just curious.
Thanks again for making all of this available Paul! @davek79 I made a pull request to the GitHub with the completed Solidworks assembly. I have experience with Solidworks, but if people have a preferred CAD program we can make a version of the model with whatever program people prefer.
Daniel,
Thanks for doing this. I was in the process of converting the .stl files to .prt files.
BTW, what version of Solidworks did you use, 18-19? I wasn’t able to open in 16-17.
Rob
Yeah that’s what I used. Unfortunately I only have the student version so I have to stay up to date or I lose access to Solidworks. Don’t use the STL files, use the STEP files that etienne linked above. They import right into Solidworks almost as well as a normal Solidworks part.
Edit: Nice! Let me know if you run into any problems with the model.
@Pdwhite, why don’t you share the latest/accurate models of the parts? We obviously have people who are keen to work on this project and help produce documentation/BOMs etc.and start sourcing parts but it seems rather pointless if we’re one step behind all the time. Isn’t this supposed to be an open source project?
@DanielArnett looking at the renderings the distance between the arms looks a bit narrow. I imagine this is just an effect of the perspective in the rendering. Is this distance correct? I mean, is it based on actual Paramotors? Can a good sized human being fit between the arms?
With the .SLDPRT parts found on GitHub (here), I identified another issue with interference in the parts while hinging the arms. See the image below. I will also open this as an issue on GitHub. Whoever updates the parts on GitHub, feel free to just close the issues I open up.
Also, if anyone wants to play around with the 3D model assembled to the best of my knowledge, here is a link to it in OnShape. The link should take you directly to the assembly online, no account needed. Onshape
This is perfect guys, thanks for using the github to file these issues. They will be way easier to track by using the “issues” in github, thank you. I’ll update when I get the latest files from @pdwhite. We’ll close as these get resolved.
That’s me. Yeah that’s the problem I was referring to. The holes are the root cause of that problem; widen the holes and you widen the red aluminum pieces.