3-View to 3D and Parts Service

What Is This Service?

This is my personal favorite and the way I've built most of the models. Three view drawings, like the one below, are very common and they make great references for making a 3D CAD model. We can use the 3-view drawing as a reference in our CAD systems to generate 3D CAD surface models. You can think of these surface models as the outer skin of the subject we're modeling. Once we have that skin, we can easily create the internal structure needed to build the model from regularly available materials (wood, foam etc) using regular building methods (bulkheads, keels, stringers etc).

THREE-VIEW

Perhaps you have a model that you can't find anywhere else and you just simply love the way it looks. If you have a three view, we can create the 3D CAD model for you and deliver you an electronic file of components that you, or we, can send to a laser or CNC cutting service. You'll end up with a kit of parts that will slot toegther very quickly and create a structure ready for sheeting and detailing. You'll be finished before you know it.

This is a great service for flexing your creative side. You'll be the envy of your peers at your flying field - unique and scarecly built models always pull a crowd. Remember also, you can have it as small or as large as you want. The final size of the model is your decission!

3D Renders of a silaplane and a power plane

The Three-View!

We have one final point regarding your three-view. Many three view pictures include fuselage/boom/nacel cross section shapes that really assist us in developing the correct cross sectional shape of the 3D CAD model. These are the fastest way of getting a model created and components available for Laser, CNC or hand cutting. Three-view drawings that DON'T have fuselage/boom/nacel cross sectional shapes on them take further research on our part to create the 3D CAD model. We'll use search engines and other resources we have at hand to determine the correct shapes needed for the model. If you have a three view without the vital cross sectional shapes, we will charge you a small research fee UNLESS you do the research yourself and provide us these references ahead of time. This is certainly the best way to go and with a little searching on the www, you should be able to find the data we need to create your model. Once you have this data, copy the picture to your hard drive or scan the picture from paper and add it as an upload with your three view.

Picture of three-view with and one without cross sectional shapes included

So How Do I Get Started?

As with many of our other services, the type of model you want to model and build will define the cost of the 3-View to 3D and Parts Service we offer. A simple single engine, single fuselage model will obviously be less expensive than a complex, multi-fuselage, multi-engined one. We have cretated a chart below that will allow you to select the type of model you want us to create for you.

Select the description that best fits the model type you're building. You'll be directed to a Papal payment screen and after completion of that transaction, you'll be directed to an upload page. Upload your 3-View and any other information you have collected and we'll take it from there.

Model Type

Single fuse with nose mounted propeller engine, single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, fixed undercarraige

Single fuse with nose mounted propeller engine, single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, Retracting undercarraige

Dual wing mounted propeller engines in nacels, single fuselage, single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, fixed undercarrage

Dual wing mounted propeller engines in nacels, single fuselage, single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, Retracting undercarrage

Dual fuse mounted propeller engines in fuse (Push/Pull), single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, fixed undercarrage

Dual fuse mounted propeller engines in fuse (Push/Pull), single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, retracting undercarrage

Three propeller engines (two on wings, one in fuse), single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer, fixed undercarrage

Three propeller engines (two on wings, one in fuse), single forward wing, single rudder/stabilizer. Retracting undercarrage

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