Good evening,
I am in the process of designing a three bladed wind turbine and I have a few queries pertaining to the modelling in Pro/E.
The blades will be integrated into the nose cone for manufacture on an RP machine and I was therefore planning to create the nose cone as a revolved feature and from there set up a datum plane perpendicular to the radial direction at some point within the feature. The blades would then be modelled as a protrusion outwards from this datum plane with a series of airfoil sections. My main question relates to how exactly I should create the tip. Our preliminary design sketches give us aradius where the last airfoil is to be situated allowing us a specific dimension in which to design the tip. I have heard people suggesting datum curves but I have no experience of this. What would you guys suggest?
Finally, once the part has been modelled there is an issue in that there is a maximum size of part which can be manufactured in the RP. Therefore we intended to make an arbitrary cut at some point along the blade and then have the nose cone and part blade manufactured seperately from the other part blade and tip section. How would I go about doing this in Pro/E if I saw wanted to have a dovetail joint through the two parts?
Many thanks,
Michael
I am in the process of designing a three bladed wind turbine and I have a few queries pertaining to the modelling in Pro/E.
The blades will be integrated into the nose cone for manufacture on an RP machine and I was therefore planning to create the nose cone as a revolved feature and from there set up a datum plane perpendicular to the radial direction at some point within the feature. The blades would then be modelled as a protrusion outwards from this datum plane with a series of airfoil sections. My main question relates to how exactly I should create the tip. Our preliminary design sketches give us aradius where the last airfoil is to be situated allowing us a specific dimension in which to design the tip. I have heard people suggesting datum curves but I have no experience of this. What would you guys suggest?
Finally, once the part has been modelled there is an issue in that there is a maximum size of part which can be manufactured in the RP. Therefore we intended to make an arbitrary cut at some point along the blade and then have the nose cone and part blade manufactured seperately from the other part blade and tip section. How would I go about doing this in Pro/E if I saw wanted to have a dovetail joint through the two parts?
Many thanks,
Michael