Re: [Jsbsim-devel] tools for converting FDM from AVL to JSBSim

[Alan T. <ajt...@v-...>]

From: Magree, Daniel 
Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2018 2:27 PM
To: jsb...@li... 
Subject: [Jsbsim-devel] tools for converting FDM from AVL to JSBSim

Hi all, I was wondering if you have any advice for converting an FDM generated by AVL (specifically, an AVL xml file generated by Cloud Cap's AVL editor) to something understandable by JSBSim. I could do it by hand or cook something up myself, but I was wondering if you know of any tools out there already.



Daniel





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Daniel.



Unless someone has written and not published, such a tool I think that you will be out of luck. However this old thread on this list may help https://sourceforge.net/p/jsbsim/mailman/message/23563466/ Looking at the examples on http://rcscratches.com/downloads/crrssim-with-rcs-models/ it seems that the data is not very detailed, so a hand conversion should be simple. Start with a simple generic model generated by JSBSim´s Aeromatic++ program and transfer the data.



My own approach to using graphical aero data is to copy and paste via a spreadsheet. JSBSim supports interpolation within tables. The spreadsheet can be used to manipulate and reformat the AVL data.



Richard Harrison, who posts here from time to time, had done a lot of work using VSPAero and JSBSim.



Alan