SIMNET Updates

SIMNET has a new support and ticketing system, making it easier than ever to receive support for your questions. Simply contact us through the new Help Widget located on the bottom-right corner of the screen, and we will reply through email promptly. Click here to learn more about how use the new Help Widget: https://youtu.be/HoF4dWPT3FU

The new settings menu allows you to easily tweak the simulation rendering quality, and adjust sound effect volumes.

SIMNET now includes the Skywalker Tilt-Body VTOL UAV aircraft, which serves as an example for how to design your own tilt-body VTOL UAV within SIMNET.

SIMNET now includes the Mugin 2600 fixed-wing VTOL aircraft.

The Simulation Pane now features an improved user interface that emulates the flight interfaces provided by popular drone systems. The 'First Person View' and 'Stabilized Camera' view modes now have a Heads-Up-Display with information such as battery level, signal strengths, and flight altitude. On 'Stabilized Camera' view mode, the interface also allows for controlling the gimbal tilt and zoom. Buttons on the left allow for taking photos, as well as viewing or downloading them through a photo album.

The 'Borinquén RC Model Club' location has been added, featuring a runway which can be used for practicing fixed-wing takeoffs and landings.

You can now export a 3D mesh of your aircraft model using the new export feature. Just click on the 'Export Model' button in the Viewer Pane.

We have added the 'Analysis Regime' setting within the Performance Pane. Select 'Vertical Flight' to obtain performance predictions in the vertical flight regime, or 'Forward Flight' to obtain forward flight performance predictions. You can use this feature to easily analyze the hover and forward performance of any VTOL design.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to model a quadplane VTOL from scratch. This includes modeling its airframe and propulsion system, adjusting its mass estimation and setting up its flight control system. Link: https://youtu.be/Ufg2PNcVs_k

SIMNET now supports simulation of 3-Axis stabilized cameras. You can use the simulation pane's 'Stabilized Camera' view mode to view the simulation from the camera point of view. Demo video: https://youtu.be/7-ze969s0J0

SIMNET Designer now supports undoing changes to the design, using the Undo button located in the Aircraft toolbar menu, or by pressing CTRL Z.

The new tutorial video explains how to simulate an aircraft with the ArduPilot flight control system, using the QGroundControl smartphone app. You can control the aircraft manually using the on-screen virtual joystick, or autonomously by planning a mission through the app. You can find the tutorial video here: https://youtu.be/5ubFiXjQOJ4