{"id":446,"date":"2016-08-01T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/?p=446"},"modified":"2016-08-01T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:13:42","slug":"openvsp-3-8-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/announcements\/2016\/08\/01\/openvsp-3-8-1-released","title":{"rendered":"OpenVSP 3.8.1 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Propellers for all!<\/p>\n<p>This release adds a new propeller component and fixes a pair of unrelated bugs. Though it may seem like a small change, the propeller component constructs its surface differently from other components. It represents a surprisingly large amount of work.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of defining the blade shape (chord, twist) at specified stations, these are instead specified as continuious curves.<\/p>\n<p>The propeller component comes with a bunch of related accessories &#8212; the blade activity factor is calculated on-the-fly, there is a one-click option to switch to a counter-rotating prop, propeller folding is built-in &#8212; with a user-defined fold axis, there is a blade element export\/import capability, and the BEM data is available through the API.<\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New propeller component<\/li>\n<li>Blade element import\/export and API<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bug Fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix DegenGeom crash on Matlab export<\/li>\n<li>Fix GUI output of mass properties calculation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propellers for all! This release adds a new propeller component and fixes a pair of unrelated bugs. Though it may seem like a small change, the propeller component constructs its surface differently from other components. It represents a surprisingly large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/announcements\/2016\/08\/01\/openvsp-3-8-1-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-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","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=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openvsp.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}