Making Drone Canopy Without Plastic Forming...
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Making Drone Canopy Without Plastic Forming...
![IMG_20160831_225538b.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/F4L/PDQA/ISCBSOMV/F4LPDQAISCBSOMV.jpg&filename=IMG_20160831_225538b.jpg)
If you want to have nice plastic canopy for your drone or other RC,
usually u have to build it using plastic forming or at least heater with some base model usually from wood craft or other hard material…
what if u don’t have any of that, but u want to build it too…
well this is u have to prepare to do that…
Material :
- 0.30mm plastic mica (depend on our need)
- paint (u can use aerosol paint or acrylic paint)
Tools :
- Pepakura Designer http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/download/in...
- 3D modeler (u can use 3D model for your design using 3Dmax or else)
- scissor
- permanent marker
- adhesive tape
- cutter knife
- ruler
- soldering iron
Now how to do it…
Build Your Canopy Using 3D Modeler
![Capture.PNG](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FML/EFY5/ISCBSOOL/FMLEFY5ISCBSOOL.png&filename=Capture.PNG)
Build it using the real scale of your canopy u want to build and save
it as .OBJ file, in this case i’m using 3Dmax to do it and this the result http://www.4shared.com/file/vTOYV5pVce/canopy.htm...
Open Pepacura Software
![Capture2.PNG](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FH8/308P/ISCBSOOP/FH8308PISCBSOOP.png&filename=Capture2.PNG)
Load the .OBJ on it, follow the instruction for no flip etc, then click
unfold and don’t forget to change the scale to 1 (it mean it will printed same scale as your 3D model).
Click Unfold
![Capture3.PNG](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/F0C/9WYQ/ISCBSOOT/F0C9WYQISCBSOOT.png&filename=Capture3.PNG)
The unfold result will be like this, u can adjust position of the paper as u want… after that print it…
Assemble It
![IMG_20160828_072208.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FYE/ZC9B/ISCBSOL0/FYEZC9BISCBSOL0.jpg&filename=IMG_20160828_072208.jpg)
Assemble all the printed paper as one and place on flat surface...
Prepare Your 0.30mm Mica Hard Plastic
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- Place your 0.30mm mica on top of the pattern, and secure it with adhesive tape on the corner.
- Mark every corner of the pastern using permanent marker so u not wrong in cut it later.
- After that cut it using cutter knife and scissor
Soldering the Join
![Soldering 2 plastic togheter](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/F5U/TMI1/ISCBSX4R/F5UTMI1ISCBSX4R.jpg&filename=Soldering 2 plastic togheter)
After u cut just like the pattern, now u can fold and stick the plastic join, and u don’t have to use glue on it. just soldering iron.
Canopy Result Before Paint...
![IMG_20160828_100217.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/F6R/9YXI/ISCBSXOS/F6R9YXIISCBSXOS.jpg&filename=IMG_20160828_100217.jpg)
![IMG_20160828_100648.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FB3/WHIK/ISCBSOMU/FB3WHIKISCBSOMU.jpg&filename=IMG_20160828_100648.jpg)
Now u have complete form of u’r canopy… and ready to paint...
Paint It...
![IMG-20160904-WA0021.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/F3A/0S3D/ISCBSOMZ/F3A0S3DISCBSOMZ.jpg&filename=IMG-20160904-WA0021.jpg)
![IMG-20160904-WA0019.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/FZQ/S1G2/ISCBSOMX/FZQS1G2ISCBSOMX.jpg&filename=IMG-20160904-WA0019.jpg)
![IMG_20160831_225538b.jpg](/proxy/?url=https://content.instructables.com/F4L/PDQA/ISCBSOMV/F4LPDQAISCBSOMV.jpg&filename=IMG_20160831_225538b.jpg)
Paint it using aerosol paint or acrylic paint and put some accessories... and finally u can place it on your drone or RC