Free Global Hawk SolidWorks Model

I've had requests to share this file, so here it is...
http://www.mikejwilson.com/misc/global_hawk.zip

It's not much, just a quick mockup. Aim away from face when
launching.

Mike Wilson

 

so Mike, was it a plane,a drone, or a missile? my guess is that it was an
either an own goal or the Pentagon was hit with stolen defence hardware.

 

Kewl model, Mike!

FYI, the wings trim fails in SW2004sp4 so I did some knits prior to help
it trim..

File at.. http://zxys.com/misc/Global_Hawk-zxys.zip

Alldough da beta be good to it. 8^)

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!? ...it was ok here using sp4.

 

Well, Neil, welcome to the world of flaky trims...

I would not doubt that it may not fail for you because I've seen trims..
but this should fail!

In fact even my helped knits will fail again in "Trim Wings".

That's right, if you edit the "Trim Wings" in my part it will fail!

I've seen this before, SW is not able to trim this because the tail goes
in and comes out of the end of the fuselage so it creates a sliver or
region it does not know how to trim. Even though the faces are in the
selection list, it barfs!?!?

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BTW,... some of you using surfaces may have noted that in SW2003 and in
SW2004 trims failed because some dillweed at SW Corp changed the way it
handles the trim boundaries! What is really sucky, such as this
example, is the data seems to be ok but in reality is will not solve
when edited so in this example, you think, well, just do an extra baby
step trim (trim the tail wing) for it to solve right?? Well, actually
no, this example will still fail when edited..

Return to sender.... SW Corp!!

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Hey Mike, Thanks!

Nice model.
I hope this isn't to bold, but...I'm sending it back to you with a slight
mod.
I can't begin to tell you how your site and your models have helped me to
use SW more fully!

Thanks again,
Muggs

 

Yeah, that's what all of the conspiracy websites are arguing. I'm taking
the other side and going with the Boeing 757-200. I'm digging up all of
the 'genuine' facts I can find and building a presentation with it. Of
course
since there is no photographic evidence of a 757 hitting the building,
just a big fireball, I'll have to assume that part of it for now until
something
convinces me otherwise.

I've seen too many mistakes already in websites such as this one...

http://physics911.org/net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3

It's amazing to me how much work went into this website. I mean come
on? How hard can it be to solve this?

Maybe someone here can take what I have and go even further with it
than me. There are many engineers that can analyze things with greater
accuracy than what my limited software access/skills can do.

Mike

 

Thanks Paul. You are so right-on here. When I originally did the trim,
I assumed that little sliver wouldn't be a problem. It's not rocket science
trimming. But like you said, SolidWorks couldn't deal with it so I tried
it again, thinking I did something wrong and it worked (using SP4 BTW).

Obviously, SW still has that old problem where it works on one persons
computer, but not on another using the same SP.

I'm using Xeon processors. I hope it's not an Athlon problem.

Heh, Global Hawk, return to sender...

Mike

 

Sorry Mike,
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I didn't realize how big the file was. It's here if your interested:
http://home.comcast.net/~muggs828/solidworks/Global_Hawk.zip

Muggs

 

I saw a cool photo in the ZIP file, but the model looked the same.
I used EcoSqueeze with the "Remove Parasolid" option. It shrinks
down to less than a meg.

Mike

 

I didn't know about the "Remove Parasolid" option.

Under the "cockpit" area, the smaller "tube" swoops back down to the
fuselage instead of going straight back.

Muggs

 

I just uploaded another much smaller version (thanks again) with the changed
srfaces in GREEN.
Same name: http://home.comcast.net/~muggs828/solidworks/Global_Hawk.zip

Muggs

 

Oh now I see LOL. I was expecting a custom paint job or some military logos.
Yeah, that makes a difference. I just checked my photos and sure enough, I
forgot that part. Thanks Muggs.

Mike

 

Hey Mike,

Yeah, dares sumtin screwwy goin on dar and SW Corp continues to avoid
this.. maybe their competition can capitalize on this noting SW can not
resolve trims or continues to have problems with surface boundary
solving?

I have a P4 3.0, probably the standard for which most of their testing
is based on?

BTW, since you suppressed your sketch pictures (only), did you ever
notice when you unsuppress them that SW will rebuild the model?
Pretty lame programing!!

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I remember it taking a while just to unsuppress a picture. I don't see
the point. They should have made a 'Hide' command. That would
increase productivity!

Mike

 

Whether your aware of it or not, it will also fail in SW05.

It's cool though!!

Regards,
Scott

 

Thanks, Scott. Yeah, it fails in 05b4 as well. Sad, very sad.

Definitely a fun model which will be interesting to see in Mike's
counter conspiracy layout.

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If anything is flaky it is the fact that the "trim wings" feature ever
worked at all. If you look closely, the "tail" loft actually sticks
through the "tail end" loft in a way that can't be mutual trimmed. A
regular trim works, but the mutual doesn't, which makes sense when you
look at it. The error "One or more surfaces cannot be trimmed into
multiple pieces" describes what's going on as well as a generic error
message could be expected to. I don't see how the error that says that
the surfaces do not intersect applies, though.

Plus, in 05b3 the shell gives a warning which is not in 04sp3, saying
that the "shell engine" thickness is greater than the min radius, which
it is.

The software problems existed in 04sp3 and have been fixed and remained
fixed in later versions, including beta.

 

In all fairness, there is a "hide" command. If you hide the sketch, the
picture hides too. Still, I agree it shouldn't have to rebuild the part
just to unsuppress a picture.