{"id":392,"date":"2015-11-18T05:37:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/?p=392"},"modified":"2015-11-18T05:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T05:37:19","slug":"openvsp-3-4-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/announcements\/2015\/11\/18\/openvsp-3-4-0-released","title":{"rendered":"OpenVSP 3.4.0 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CST for everyone!<\/p>\n<p>OpenVSP 3.4.0 comes with native support for Brenda Kulfan&#8217;s CST Airfoil representation. This is an oft-requested and long awaited feature by those doing aero optimization.<\/p>\n<p>CST support is limited to the airfoil class (N1=0.5, N2=1.0) and is only available for Wing-type components for now.<\/p>\n<p>CST airfoils can be promoted exactly or demoted to the closest possible approximation of reduced order. Existing VSP airfoils can be converted to CST using a least squares fit of a specified order.<\/p>\n<p>Airfoils may now be modified via scale, shift, and rotate. These mods are used by the CST fitting to allow the CST curve to be defined on x=[0,1] with start\/end at y=0.<\/p>\n<p>These modifications will also allow some interesting alternative uses. With great power comes great responsibility. Do not use these mods to achieve wing shapes possible through &#8216;normal&#8217; parameters &#8212; you will come to regret it.<\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CST Airfoil class support<\/li>\n<li>Airfoil scale, shift, rotate modifications<\/li>\n<li>Promote\/demote CST airfoils<\/li>\n<li>Best least squares CST conversion of existing airfoil types<\/li>\n<li>Extend API to support CST airfoils<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bug fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write 1\/0 Type parameter for *.hrm files<\/li>\n<li>Modify SuperBuild to auto-build *.zip package every time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CST for everyone! OpenVSP 3.4.0 comes with native support for Brenda Kulfan&#8217;s CST Airfoil representation. This is an oft-requested and long awaited feature by those doing aero optimization. CST support is limited to the airfoil class (N1=0.5, N2=1.0) and is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/announcements\/2015\/11\/18\/openvsp-3-4-0-released\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}