{"id":15490,"date":"2017-04-21T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/?p=15490"},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T17:03:30","slug":"solidworks-lindberghs-spirit-of-st-louis-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/04\/solidworks-lindberghs-spirit-of-st-louis-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Lindbergh&#8217;s Spirit of St. Louis Tutorial &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20th and 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh, aka \u201cLucky Lindy\u201d, made history by completing the first solo, nonstop, transatlantic flight; piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. To celebrate the anniversary of Lindy\u2019s achievement we\u2019re showing SOLIDWORKS users how to model a 30\u201d wingspan version of his iconic aircraft. Throughout this series, we\u2019ll fly through lessons on how to work off imported images, and we\u2019ll use a series of extrusions, lofts, and sweeps to model the Spirit of St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>In part 1 of this series we\u2019ll start importing and laying out several downloaded images to model around.\u00a0 Keep this technique in mind when modeling any vehicle, be it an aircraft, boat, or car.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vYktEBdudEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re an aviation enthusiast or are just looking for a new SOLIDWORKS challenge, the Lindbergh&#8217;s Spirit of St. Louis tutorial series is for you!<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to watch the next video? View all of the tutorials\u00a0on the playlist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLiKqXuECiKNJvEsdeceUz2mOiZFs7XseF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20th and 21st, 1927 Charles Lindbergh, aka \u201cLucky Lindy\u201d, made history by completing the first solo, nonstop, transatlantic flight; piloting his monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, from Long Island, New York to Paris, France. To celebrate the<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2017\/04\/solidworks-lindberghs-spirit-of-st-louis-part-1.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":15492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,35,36],"tags":[1836,108,1834,1196,1831,124,60,453,414],"class_list":["post-15490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","category-usability","tag-extrusion","tag-loft","tag-monoplane","tag-series","tag-spirit-of-st-louis","tag-sweep","tag-tech-tip","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-tutorial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15490\/revisions\/16602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}