Combining geometry from two different *.vsp files
Dennis Haimerl
I've been making quit a bit of progress in the limited time I have to work with OpenVSP and have been seeing relatively good correlation of results to wind tunnel and real world data. Here are a couple of quick questions:
1. While learning the software I built the horizontal tail in a separate *.vsp file than the wing. Is there a way that I can combine the h-tail geometry with the wing geometry without having to build it again in the GUI?
2. Is there an obvious reason why my wing/fuselage (tailless airplane) will solve in Panel Mode but not in VLM?
3. I know this is in a video that Brandon or Rob made made, but I cannot find it again. They stated that there was a good location to keep notes about a model that can be accessed through the GUI. What place would that be?
Grant Hiller
Hi Dennis,
1. To combine them you can use File --> Import if it's a *.vsp file, or File --> Insert if it's a *.vsp3 file. I would recommend you have a play with using Sets if you haven't already, that way you can create different configurations for various tasks i.e. Set 1 could have the wing,, fuselage and tail, Set 2 could just be wing and fuselage. Then when you run VSPAERO you can specify which set to use. There are some good videos about sets on the OpenVSP youtube channel.