Modeling the Mars Helicopter

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Could it be someone has already modeled in SketchUp (not “live” of course)?

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Hi I am Aarush Sobti from New Delhi India , I am currently learning 3D Modelling using Sketch up. I have made model of mars Helicopter with help of your you tube video. I have two questions :

  1. How to create a watermark in Sketchup web
  2. How to create shadow .
  3. Attached my model for your guidance.

Mars Helicopter (1).skp (980.7 KB)

Your guidance will help me .

Aarush Sobti

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It also depends on what kind of watermark you want

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Thanks @mihai.s. Really appreciate. I have completed my model Please feel free to suggest if I can add anything

Thanks

Mars Helicopter.skp (2.9 MB)

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I’m new here and am modeling the Ingenuity Helicopter in a different way: I am building a flying RC model with about an 18" rotor span. Not “from scratch”, I’m adapting an existing coaxial model to my scale model of Ginny. Your photos and renderings here will be a great asset in building my model.

–Bill

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I saw your discussion of this project on the UnmannedSpaceflight forums. Good luck!

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Hi Tom, we’re looking to create some merchandising products of the Ingenuity Helicopter and wanted to use a technical drawing of it. We would be keen to use a similar drawing to this image you put up, any chance you know if there are any usage rights on this?

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Note that the images which I can see up-thread posted by @TomTom919 are quite different from the actual Ingenuity helicopter that has been operating on Mars. It would be rather a shame if your company were to create products that claimed to be representations of Ingenuity but were actually highly inaccurate.

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Ah okay, so the dimensions image that Tom put up wouldn’t give a good reflection on the Ingenuity Helicopter? Would there be anywhere you would recommend to find a technical drawing of the Ingenuity Helicopter, seems quite a hard thing to find

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I do not know where to find detailed 2D drawings. The first reply in this topic, which happens to be from me, includes a link to a 3D model of Ingenuity hosted by NASA. For convenience, here is another link to it. Perhaps you could download one of the available model formats (gITF, USDZ), convert it to something that SketchUp can import, and use the 3D model to gather the reference material you seek (such as to create 2D views, pull off dimensions, etc.).