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Deadalus v0.3.1-beta

Parametric airfoil & wing designer

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What is Deadalus?

Deadalus is a parametric airfoil and wing design tool. Thanks to parametric design a user gets full flexibility over created geometry. It applies for both 2D and 3D design, which can be than exported to industry-standard formats like .dxf and .step.

Parametric Wing Modeling

Define geometry through parameters for total design freedom.

2D & 3D Designs

Generate both planform and full 3D wing structures.

DXF & STEP Export

Seamlessly export to CAD with support for .dxf and .step formats.

Airfoil Designer

Airfoil Designer inside DEADALUS allows for parametric design of airfoils. A profile is established using 4 splines geometries for Pressure & Suction Side and Leading & Trailing Edges. Using parameters such as: chord, incidence, leading edge thickness, pressure side angle user can achieve any desired shape. It is also possible to display reference from an airfoil saved in selig format. Using Airfoil Designer it is possible to export to .dxf file format.

Airfoil Designer
Airfoil Designer

Wing Designer

Wing Designer allows for creation of 3D wings using established profiles from Airfoil Designer and NURBS surfaces. A user can create:
Component - a family of other objects, just like 'Front Wing'
Wings - single object created out of segments, just like '1st wing'
Segments - an object holding shape of a wing, just like 'Ribs'
By changing the parameters position, angle and scale can be adjusted. Additionally a connection type: G0, G1 can be defined between semgnets to allows linear or smooth surface flow. Using Wing Designer it is possible to export to .step file format*.

*Tested using CATIA V5R19, Inventor 2025, SolidWorks 2025

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Deadalus v0.3.1beta for Windows

Realease Notes

Realease Notes

Project Mission

Deadalus is an GNU program created by single author (with a help of awesome friends). In the pursuit of better aerodynamic designs, a niche was found.
Designing an airfoil and wings in typical modern CAD software is hard. Not impossible, of course, but far from pleasant. To ease this process, DAEDALUS was created. It`s aimed primarily at Formula Student colleagues, but it can be used for small aircraft as well. DEADALUS is a free sofware. It's to promote the best science branch of them all: aerodynamics and to allow creative minds to move forward without being held back by software.

Licence

DEADALUS is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU licence (GPL, or “free software”). This license grants people a number of freedoms:

  • Freedom to use Deadalus, for any purpose
  • Freedom to distribute Deadalus
  • Freedom to study source code and modify it
  • Freedom to distribute changed versions of Deadalus
    • The GPL strictly aims at protecting these freedoms, requiring everyone to share their modifications when they also share the software in public. That aspect is commonly referred to as Copyleft. DEADALUS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The Author is committed to preserving DEADALUS as free software.