3D CAD Question: How to aply an airfoil shape on an iregular shape?

Like the title suggests, I have a question about CAD.

I want to make a boomerang. I have a 2D curved shape with irregular edges. Now I want to sweep an airfoil shap along the 2D plane to finish the boomerang but I can only find how to do that for straight shapes…

See attched foto for reference…

Anyone knows how to tackle this in Fusion360?

Well aparently this is not the forum to ask detailed 3D modeling questions :sweat_smile:

For anyone else having questions about 3D CAD software… I have found that you can ask Chat GPT just about anything you have issues with on Fusion360 (and I assume other CAD software) and it will spit out a detailed instruction on how to solve it.

Use it to your advantage.

Chat GPT can be found here

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So you ask the question, then later on you also provide the answer… which, incidentally, also turns out to be the solution… Funny thing…

Yes, I am my own best consultant aparently… With a little help from chat gpt…

I have designed my boomerang… Now lets see it works as expected and if it does I will publish it on Makerworld…

Maybe then you will see why this was difficult :grin:

Nothing is difficult as long as there’s a solution. Good luck with your testing.

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@Chris1974

wow - Holy s*** :heart_eyes: I asked the thing a few questions like: How to print TPU.

I don’t know if I should be scared - but it’s really cool :laughing:

Crazy? This goes much further.

It will become the case that you just give them the problem and you will get the finished solution drawed - just look at the e.G. static calculations from today - that would never have been conceivable in the past. The calculations and other analyzes that a CAD can spit out today - That would never have occurred in my wildest dreams some years ago.

Off topic:

Yesterday me and my wife saw a 1 hr. Film from NZZ, a very well-known media company. The title was: In Love with an AI Avatar… Mainly from people from the USA in contact with an A.I. and they know it’s an A.I. These things are answering more real than you think. Ok, you can easily recognize them in video chat (this may also be intentional in order to separate reality), but in a chat? There are also positiv examples such as a cancer patient gets permanent was helped a lot by constant encouragement. 24/7 whenever she have requested this without any waiting time. According to her, it was extremely helpful.

But A.I. are supposed to (may?) always be very likeable, so they want to wrap people around their fingers as much as possible - than more someone disagree, than higher is the chance that they are not an A.I. It simply capture it on an emotional basis and will always confirm you. So they don’t want to upset anyone and they are better on this as humans are - In these report it was amazing how the A.I. always found answers to make someone happy, even if they were very upset - so if someone upsets you it’s may not an A.I. :wink:

Based on a report seen a few weeks ago, A.I. used correctly, such as in cancer detection, which is already happening today is a good thing. Danger is may not the A.I. but the Super A.I. So if an A.I. which may become much more intelligent than we are creats the next A.I. and so on. And since we have all just crawled out of the trees and our imagination is still very limited, then we may will stand there like a humen will face the ingenuity of an earthworm… Hopefully the A.I. then have more respect for us than we do have for an earthworm… Or as Einstein once said: “Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, but I’m not entirely sure about the universe yet”

Now HankGPT is conversing with ChatGPT… we’re one step away from some real Skynet stuff here people.

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So this is the fruit of all my hard CAD work… Literally!

Let me know what you think…

It actually works!

You can find it here:

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I love it. The fact it actually works is seriously impressive.

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Thank you. I went through a few iterations before it worked to my satisfaction…

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