Component Database

Changes:

• All Radii are changed to Diameters for nose cones and transitions. Radii made sense internally, but diameters are more consistent with part specifications such as for body tubes. Existing models will be converted automatically, but once saved will not be compatible with previous versions of the workbench.

New Features:

• Extended Multi-unit support. All dialogs now allow you to specify non-metric units as per the rest of FreeCAD. Very useful for people living in technologically backwards countries with archaic unit measurement :D

• Parts lookup! A large selection of predefined parts courtesy of the Open Rocket database. There are still some minor import issues on a small number of parts, but it's very usable as is. I still want to add Rocksim part imports. No user defined parts at this time. Given that we use very different data, that's a larger project for another day.

Bugfix release

Fixed

• Issue #13 Cone and ellipse transitions throw errors when creating hollow transitions with shoulders

Release 1.0.1 bug fixes only

Fixed

• Issue #12 Editing a part resets its placement

Partially fixed

• Issue #13 Cone and ellipse transitions throw errors when creating hollow transitions with shoulders

Known issues

• Clipped elliptical transitions produce invalid shapes
• Clipped transitions where the forward radius is greater than the aft radius may produce invalid shapes. In this case, draw the transition in reverse and correct using placement.

V1.0 Release

Initial release of the Rocket workbench. This release has tools to create:

• Nose cones
• Transitions
• Body tubes
• Bulkheads
• Centering rings
• Fins

For more information on how to use the tools, refer to the wiki page https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Rocket_Workbench

IMPORTANT

These files expand into a folder called 'Rocket-1.0'. This must be renamed to 'Rocket' or you will be unable to see your icon files.