![]() The toolbar consist of six main buttons: ‘about’ button, ‘file’ button, ‘standard’ button, ‘advanced’ button, and ‘background’ button. Plane-Maker’s interface consists of a toolbar, a main window showing your custom aircraft, and a few textboxes at the bottom of the main window. Optionally, several third party 3D models can be imported into Plane-Maker as parts of your aircraft. In Plane-Maker, creating custom aircraft is done by constructing your aircraft model inside Plane-Maker and also inputting your aircraft’s parameter. Aside from aircraft, you can also created other flying vehicles such as airships and rockets or non-flying vehicle such as cars (although the simulation may be inaccurate). However, as the name suggest, Plane-Maker is actually intended to create custom airplanes or helicopters. This program is used to create custom aircraft for X-Plane. ![]() Plane-Maker is one of the three X-Plane’s supplemental programs. HLD and control surface parameter, such as its spanwise location, its chord fraction, and its type.Īircraft fuselage and other non-lifting bodies’ drawing, which includes the three view drawing and cross-section drawing at several station.Īircraft’s engine specification data which includes thrust value, thrust point location (the location where thrust force is applied), SFC, compressor area, etc.Īircraft’s weight and balance data which includes empty weight, MTOW, fuel weight, and CG location (most aft, most forward, and default CG location), etc.Īircraft’s landing gear parameter, which includes gear type and position, wheel dimension, strut dimension, etc. Planform parameter for all lifting surfaces (If your planform geometry is complex, divide it into several simple trapezoidal planform section), which includes span, root and tip chord length, incidence angle, dihedral angle, twist angle. Note that all required data below must be expressed in british unit for Plane-Maker (ft for length, lbs for mass and force).Īirfoil (afl files) for all aircraft’s lifting surfaces, rotor, and propeller (see How to Create Airfoil with Airfoil-Maker tutorial for the instructions about how to create airfoil for X-Plane). It is important that you have them all completely, so, you can go through all part of this tutorial without any obstacle. If you haven’t had your own aircraft design, it is recommended that you read the other tutorial, Creating Ample the Example Plane with Plane-Maker, to get a brief understanding in how to use Plane-Maker.īefore taking a further steps in this tutorial, you should prepare the items/data listed below. When this tutorial was made, it was made based on X-Plane 9’s Plane-Maker with Windows Vista 32 operating system. It is also assumed that you already have your own aircraft design, ready to be modelled on X-Plane. ![]() In this tutorial, you will learn how to create basic conventional aircraft for X-Plane by using Plane-Maker. ![]()
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