VLAERO OPRESEN NTATION NSUMM MARY

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 Youwillachievethepanelbelow. a

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 Youwillendupwithan notherlattice ecomponentofthesame nameandpa anel.Now,ren namethis duplicated dcomponent tbyrightclick kingonitand dchangingpu uttingitsnewnameinthetitlebox,as shownintheabovefig gures.Then,r rightclickthis scomponent again,selectcomponentt tools,andthe en willmirrorthe ecomponent tandyourwin ngstructurew willbenearly ycomplete. mirrorcomponent.Itw

 Thiswillm mirrorthecom mponentandyouwillendupwithafulllwing.

Reference eparametersmustbespecifiedtothesetwopanels s.Todothis,r rightclickononeofthelat ttice components,selectcomponenttoo ols,andthencalculateref ferenceparam meters.

 Whenyou udothis,youwillseeadialogboxwithvariouspara metersofthepanelsection.Clickapplyto a a e o model.

 Onlydoth hisfortheRIG GHTpartofth hemodel.VLA AEROdefines sthingsfrom righttoleft,soclickingap pply tomodelwillapplythisinformation ntotheentire emodelatt temptingthisontheleftla atticecompon nent workyouwillseeaplanfo ormareaofz zero.Rememb ber,rightside eonly. willnotw Onceyoudothis,youarereadyfor ranalysis.Ifyo ouapplynoa airfoil,thenth heprogramw willmodelthe e e.Toapplyan nairfoil,right tclickonthe airfoilsectio onstree,and dclicknew structureasaflatplate airfoil.Yo ouwillthens seeanunnam medairfoilund dertheairfoi lsectionstree.Rightclickthis,andsele ect editairfo oil.Youwillt thenseethee editairfoildia alogbox.

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 Fillinthetitlesectionw withwhateve ernameyouw wishtogivey yourairfoil,an ndclickokay. .Thisairfoilis snow defined.N Now,thisairfoilmustbeappliedtothepanels.Right tclickonyou urrightlattice ecomponent, ,and selected ditcomponen nt.Thennav vigatetothea airfoilsandtw wistsection,a andselectyourairfoilfrom mthe dropdown nlistfortheo outboardAND Dinboardsidesofthewin g.

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Thiswillc createanunnamedjobund derthestand dardjobstree e.

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 Toviewth hejobsumma ary,clickthejobsummary ybuttonitrevealstheinformationshown,suchastotal f CL,CD,ET TC.

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Itwillproducethebelo owplot:

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Youwillthenhavejobsateachangleofattackyourequire.E xecutethem, h s ,andgetthedata.

Thefinalu usefulfeature eistheexpor rtdatatool,fo oundunder:

Thiswilla allowyoutoc copyALLofyo ourjobstoex xcel,orexport tthedatatoafileforuseinwhateverway youchoos se.Forexcel,justselectth hecopytoclip pboardoption n(excel)optionabove,andthengoint to excel,and dpaste:

Thisisau usefulwaytoquicklyextractdata.

TofindthedCpforeac chpanel,first tsetupawinggeometryu usingthemet thodsdiscuss sedpreviously y.

SelectViewFullSolve erOutputaft terrunningaTotalForces sandMomen ntsjob.

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Toexport tthedatatoMicrosoftExcel,copyandpastetheDE LTACPdataintonotepad,andsaveasa.txt M c i , file.

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