Biconic Nose Cones in OpenRocket

[Raythain]

Starting to work on my first scratch build, and I didn't see an option for a biconic nose cone in OpenRocket. Do I need to model this as a small conic nose cone and a transition?

Here's the NC in question (a Custom PC-20A) that I picked up in the clearance bin of my LHS.

 

[neil_w]

Do I need to model this as a small conic nose cone and a transition?

Yes.

 

[Raythain]

Thanks Neil.

Follow up question - is there an "import .ork as subassembly" or "export as part" that I can use to save the whole subassembly for easy use later? Or will I need to just start with the file that is just the nose cone when I want to use it?

 

[neil_w]

You pretty much need to save the nose as an ORK file. You can then use it as a starting point or copy/paste from that file into your design.

Ability to save subassemblies as components is an open feature request, and I hope we’ll get to it eventually. But not soon.

 

[Raythain]

Ability to save subassemblies as components is an open feature request, and I hope we’ll get to it eventually. But not soon.

Thanks Neil. I didn't see anything about it on the wiki, but I didn't dive into the GitHub to check. Open a separate file and copy/paste is close enough to a true subassembly feature for me.

 

[neil_w]

Feature request won't generally show up on the wiki, they'd be on Github only. Sometimes they're only "in our heads".