MULTI-WINGED ORNITHOCOPTER

JOSHUA K DAKSLA
EMAIL: JKDAKSLA@students.everrettcc.edu

ENG T 193 -Intermediate CAD with CATIA 3D Experience

 DESCRIPTION
• A multi-winged ornithopter design,
intended in exploring the possibilities in
multi-winged flight.

• Each section of the ornithopter is

modular, meaning that the amount of
systems it has can change. Likewise, the
wing pattern can be changed at will.

• The CG (center of gravity) of each

system can vary, so an equivalent
counterweight is added.

• The gear/arm system can work with two

different configurations; two wing or four
wing.
FINAL PROJECT DRAWING
INITIAL DRAWINGS/CONCEPTS

The initial design of the ornithocopter had

two moters on each side of the aircraft. While
this provided some control, it was also too
heavy. A slimmer design was needed…
THE GEAR SYSTEM: RIGHT VS. LEFT SIDE MOTER
 RIGHT MOTOR SYSTEM

The right motor setup,

RIGHT MOTOR SYSTEM EXPLODED DRAWING
RIGHT MOTOR SYSTEM DRAWING
LEFT MOTOR SYSTEM
LEFT MOTER SYSTEM EXPLODED DRAWING
LEFT MOTOR SYSTEM DRAWING
THE GEAR SYSTEM: RIGHT VS LEFT SIDE MOTER
The main purpose of the gear system of an ornithocopter, is to provide
sufficient arm movement per rotation so that the supported wings can
generate enough upward thrust for flight. One way to improve the thrust, is to
reduce the aircraft's weight. Thus, the two-motor design was discarded and a
multi-geared, single-motor design was pursued.

Each part of gear system was created separately using the part design and
was brought together in assembly.

/\ LEFT /\ WORKBENCHES USED:

VS.
\/ RIGHT \/

\/ RIGHT \/ \/ LEFT \/
THE CONTOL BODY & SUP. BODY
 THE CONTROL & SUP. BODY CON.

Unlike the gear systems, the ornithocopter’s support WORKBENCHES USED:

and control systems were made in the wireframe
workbench before converted into part design using
thickness.
CONTROL SYSTEM
CONTROL EXPLODED DRAWING
CONTROL SYSTEM DRAWING
THE WING
 THE WING CON.

Like the control/support body structure of the WORKBENCHES USED:

ornithocopter, the wing is made using the wireframe
workbench and converted into a part using part design.

Fill, splines, circular and sweep tools were used

creating this sketch.
 CONCULSION
CONCEPTS LEARNED IN ENG T 193: • Edge fillet limiting with
• Creating fills, sweeps, blends, and multi-section surfaces when needed in certain custom surfacing
wireframe objects •
Circular and rectangle
• Extruding, revolving, mending, and breaking lines or sketchs patterns
• Creating offsets from surfaces •
Axis to axis
• Creating splines based on planes, work on supports and individual inputs •
Mirroring, symmetry, and
• On-the-fly creation of lines, points, splines, etc. rotation
• Joining different surfaces •
Tritangent curves
• Creating circles, corners, connected curves, and conic curves on different lines
• Projection and intersection from lines and surfaces
• Creation of cylinders and spheres from lines and points
• Healing broken sketches
• Creating boundaries from surfaces and support lines
• Helixes and spirals
• Ribs, stiffeners, and grooves
• Multipocket and multipad from given parts and sketchs
• Points and planes repetition on selected lines
• Creating isoperimetric curves from points/planes on a surfaces
• Thin solid pads
• Conversion from surfaces / joined surfaces to part by thickness Total hours spent on project: 60
• Pocket drafting and multi pocket with fillets
• Slots (not the gambling kind)
• Custom surface cutting Total hours spent in class: 150
• Variable radius / angle fillets and chamfers