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Drone Frame

quadcopter frame by topology optimisation

Design a 5-inch quadcopter frame around its parts: carve it from a flat plate, or optimise a beam frame and weave it into one solid.

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Drone Frame in Twinsys — screenshot of the running app
Screenshot of the running app.

Highlights

A question it answers

With this battery, stack and camera on a 58 mm motor offset, what does a 38 % carbon-nylon frame look like at 3 g, how heavy is it, and which parts end up hanging outside the frame?

What you put in

Components on or off (four motors, propellers, battery, 4-in-1 ESC, flight controller, camera, video transmitter, GPS, receiver — generic 5-inch reference envelopes and masses); motor offset, plate thickness, motor pad radius, stack pad size, bolt collar radius; material (carbon-filled nylon, PETG, PA12, aluminium — isotropic references); resolution, volume target, filter factor, iterations, projection; load factor and payload; surface threshold; for 1D beams: one or two layers, node spacing, inset, reach, mass budget, minimum and maximum diameter, and the weave settings (smoothness, junction, body, standoff, bolt boss radius).

What you get

The plate, locked collars, component envelopes, bolt heads and load arrows in 3D before the run; the density live during the run; afterwards the frame surface (full screen, XYZ gizmo, light and dark theme) with compliance, volume, triangles, watertightness, volume and frame mass; checks for locked share, bolt collar coverage, loads that sit outside the frame (with the distance they were moved), pieces cut off from every bolt, material not connected to a bolt and a run that stopped while still moving; the solver backend and its warnings; STL (Z up) and a hand-off to PolyNURBS; for 1D beams, the candidate members before the run and the sized members after it, clearance and Euler-load checks, and the woven solid with its mass and piece count, as STL or opened in Organic Lattice.

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