Blender Airfoil Plotter
A script by Fake (http://fake.yolasite.com). If you did not get it from there, please email me at simfake[dot]mapping[at]gmail[dot]com.
It takes a series of coordinates, as almost from the UIUC site download the .dat file for the airfoil you want.
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To get it into blender, just remove the junk lines before the coordinates, and the blank line between the sets of coordinates.
Since it now draws edges, just remove doubles and the big line down the center.
To change the file, just change the variable named file to what you want. Make sure you type an aboslute path.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/
Released 2009 by Fake (http://fake.yolasite.com or http://jak-o-shadows.users.sourceforge.net)
An example of what the program does:
From this (modified b29root.dat))
0.0000000 0.0000000
0.0082707 0.0233088
0.0132000 0.0298517
0.0255597 0.0425630
0.0503554 0.0603942
0.0751941 0.0739301
0.1000570 0.0850687
0.1498328 0.1023515
0.1996558 0.1149395
0.2495240 0.1230325
0.2994312 0.1272298
0.3993490 0.1253360
0.4993711 0.1130538
0.5994664 0.0934796
0.6996058 0.0695104
0.7997553 0.0445423
0.8998927 0.0207728
0.9499514 0.0098870
1.0000000 0.0000000
0.0000000 0.0000000
0.0061140 -.0208973
0.0062188 -.0210669
0.0087532 -.0247377
0.0138088 -.0307807
0.0264052 -.0416431
0.0515127 -.0548774
0.0765762 -.0637165
0.1016176 -.0703581
0.1516652 -.0801452
0.2016828 -.0869356
0.2516733 -.0910290
0.3016387 -.0926252
0.4015163 -.0905235
0.5013438 -.0834273
0.6011363 -.0728351
0.7008976 -.0591463
0.8006328 -.0428603
0.9003380 -.0235778
0.9501740 -.0122883
1.0000000 0.0000000
To this(with doubles removed and the line down the middle removed):
