Use the pull down menu to select between built in profiles
Mid Profile
Flat Profile
Fat Profile
Three default profiles are included in KaroroCAD, along with the ability to upload your own in DXF format.
Allows you to select a foil profile from your local machine and upload to this session for use on the kite. There is an example file available for download (see Export Controls) showing required format/details.
PLEASE NOTE: Your imported profile is NOT SAVED in your .KITE save file - you will need to re-upload for every new session.
This control allows adjustment to the circle diameter of the leading edge tube as a % of the cord of the kite - 5% to 15% adjustment range available.
The profiles in KaroroCAD are scaled in length and depth to match the cord of the kite as it tapers towards the wing tip. On some kites with very narrow wing tips the LE diameter may get too thin to support the structure of the kite. This control allows you to scale up or down the LE tube diameter at the final profile to compensate for the loss due to taper.
This control allows you to ‘hold’ the morphing of the Center Profile to the flat wing tip profile. The figure is the number of canopy seams from the centre of the kite that will be un-morphed profiles.
By default KaroroWING builds a flat final canopy profile, tangent to the leading edge circle. The other canopy profiles are a morph between the center profile and this flat tip profile.
This control allows you to push some curve into this last profile by stopping the morphing before this flat profile.
A value of 0.5 selects the final profile as being 50% of the morph between the center profile and flat profile.
TIP: Show Profiles in 2D to see the effects of this control
By default all KaroroKITE designs have a center profile angle of attack set to 0.
The control allows you to set the wing tip profile angle of attack, figures show are degrees
More than zero is coning, less than zero is washout
TIP: This only controls the canopy angle of, you will need to adjust the wing tip angle of attack to match your canopy