NASA Open Sources Aircraft Design Software

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday January 15, 2012 @05:21AM from the build-a-plane dept.

First time accepted submitter sabre86 writes "At the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Nashville, NASA engineers unveiled the newly open sourced OpenVSP, software that allows users to construct full aircraft models from simple parameters such as wing span and fuselage length, under the NASA Open Source Agreement. Says the website, 'OpenVSP allows the user to create a 3D model of an aircraft defined by common engineering parameters. This model can be processed into formats suitable for engineering analysis.'"

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MakerBot compatible? by Anne+Thwacks · 2012-01-15 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Is the output Makerbot compatible? I want to use this to design a next generation super jumbo for my Makerbot!

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1. Re:MakerBot compatible? by Baloroth · 2012-01-15 06:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Wait, are you telling me we can download planes now? Sweet!
  Yes, RIAA, I totally would download a plane.
  
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