madesigner | Model Airplane Rapid Design Toolkit

madesigner is a Python library typically used in Manufacturing, Utilities, Machinery, Process applications. madesigner has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

One of the most satisfying things in life is to create something yourself. From sewing to landscaping to flying a rocket to mars: designers pour their heart and soul and creativity into clever and interesting designs. Even with common well known items, it is still immensely satisfying to design and build (or even fix) it yourself. In recent years we have made great strides in developing rapid prototyping tools. We have a variety of 3d design tools that have a dizzying array of features (often even more dizzying when you start trying to figure them out!) Once the design is drawn up in the computer, we now have a suite of tools from laser cutters, to CNC routers, to 3d printers which can create the actual parts accurately and quickly. All that remains is to assemble the parts and your design is finished. More recently that has been a big push to "open source" the production of hardware. Others can summarize what this means better than I can, but "open source" fabrication includes open-source designs, open-source manufacturing machines, open-source 3d models. There is still a cost to physically produce a part and distribute it, but the goal is to apply community open-source development and improvement techniques to part design and production. The end goal is to lower costs and make the whole process more accessible and more possible for even us little guys. We give up some concept of "ownership" of the design and the tools to create and build it, but we gain far more in the end. However, one of the big stumbling blocks to this whole process is the complexity and cost of the 3d computer design software itself. There can be a huge cost for advanced CAD software and also a huge learning curve to understand the software well enough to do anything useful with it. MAdesigner is an experiment to help address the cost and complexity of the design portion of the process; focused primarily on the area of model aircraft which is one of my life long interests. It will take some time to realize all the goals I can envision for this project, but I would like MAdesigner to reduce the time to design an entire model aircraft from scratch to just minutes. Select an airfoil, choose the basic layout of the model, tweak the scale and the dimensions, and then run the scripts. What should pop out are 3-view drawings; nested cut files for a laser cutter or CNC machine to make all the "hard" or "curvey" parts; full size plans; 3d cutaway models that you can spin around and look inside of; and even an assembly manual with practical build tips could all be fully automated. Even though a basic "cookie cutter" design can be produced quickly, the designer can spend time up front adjusting their aircraft, engineering the structures, selecting materials, adjusting the lines and the proportions, personalizing it, making engineering trade offs, and ultimately making the design entirely their own.