Advanced Flight Simulation

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Advanced Flight Simulation

OpenRocket offers more advanced options for simulating flight. You can plot your rocket's predicted acceleration, climb, eject and landing, make a prediction for how far downrange and in which direction your flight will land, and even experiment with different models of Earth's geometry, as it affects your flight. Once you're satisfied with a sim, you can export your data for analysis and charting in other packages.

 

Plotting your rocket's flight

To begin learning about OpenRocket's plotting features, first, click the Plot / Export button on the Flight simulations window.

The Plot / export Button.

On the Edit simulation panel, you'll see tabs marked Plot data and Export data. The Plot data opens first. Here you can define many parameters that will determine what values are plotted, and what events are marked on the plot.

Here you'll be able to quickly choose from a number of standard plots:

Standard plots

The Plot / export window.

A Plot of the simulation.

The Edit simulation window: Launch conditions.

The Edit simulation window: Simulation options.

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