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RockSim version 5.0 now available |
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2000 Archived News by Apogee Components
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Sunday, December 24, 2000 |
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado USA — Apogee Components is now announcing that RockSim version 5.0 is now available! The price is $85 for new users, $35 for those upgrading from version 4.0, or $50 for those updating from v3.0 and older.
The new version features awesome 3-D images of your rocket designs; plus advanced simulation techniques like: electronic deployment of recovery devices, tracking the rocket after parachute deployment, and staggered ignition of rocket motors. On the design side, the new features added are: through-the-wall fin tabs on any shape fins, complex motor cluster arrangements, and saving of component sub-assemblies. More information is available from the Apogee web site.
But it is the 3-D images that will really amaze you. It is so simple to use; RockSim lets you design rockets on a 2-D drawing board, and then you just click a button - BAM! Instant 3-D image of your rocket! You can rotate it to any view angle, and even export the image out in VRML format for viewing on your own web site.
RockSim is still a highly unique rocketry suite - combining both the design of the rocket and the flight simulations into a seamless user interface. Designing your rockets is as simple as selecting parts from a massive database of components, and arranging them as you would build any rocket. And as you design your rocket on the computer, RockSim constantly determines the CP and the CG location to determine the static stability of the design.
Once the design is complete, you select a motor from the database, and set the launch conditions of the rocket. Click the launch button, and RockSim performs advanced dynamic stability algorithms to determine how the rocket will fly in any wind conditions. It generates megabytes of information! But thankfully, it sorts this data out into the useful parameters that you need to see if the flight will be successful. You can even view a simulated flight trajectory to determine if the launch will proceed as you intended. It will even tell you how far downrange your rocket will land.
RockSim is highly educational too. Many schools have started using it to test student designs before the models are actually constructed. This allows them to predict the performance of their rockets, and to determine if they are safe to launch.
The program is available from Apogee Components, or your local brick-and-mortor hobby store. If they don't carry it, have them call us. All upgrades must be made directly through Apogee Components.
Version 5.0 will open all your previous designs created in older versions of the program. The 3-D feature works on these older files too!
A FREE demo version of the program will be available from the Apogee Components web site. This demo allows you to try the various features of the program to see if it is right for your needs.
Apogee Components, Inc.
630 Elkton Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO
80907-3514 USA
Tel: 719-535-9335
Fax: 719-534-9050
Web site: http://www.apogeerockets.com/ |
