From launch to landing - SpaceCAD has got you covered

With SpaceCAD, it's very easy to build your own model rockets. Simply build your own model rocket designs!

SpaceCAD is the market-leading model rocket software that helps you to build the model rockets you desire. Choose your own nose cone, your own engine sizing and your own fins - instead of relying on catalog designs!

SpaceCAD helps you build your rockets faster!

Unlike other model rocket software, SpaceCAD also supports you in building your model rocket. How does SpaceCAD do that? Well, SpaceCAD offers a lot of printout options that help you build your rocket design.

Another great feature of SpaceCAD is its ease-of-use. If you think that model rocket software is only for rocket scientists - well, think again! With just a few mouse-clicks you can design your model rocket and check if it flies stable - and how high it will go!

Design your rocket in 2D

SpaceCAD has everything you'll need to build a complete model rocket:

• Nose cone
• Body tube
• Fins
• Transitions
• Weights
• Inner tubes
• Centering rings
• Motor mounts
• Bulkheads

See the details of your model rocket with the 2D rocket view with ability to "zoom in" the design.

Complete support for free fin forms plus "through-the-wall" for high-power rockets.

SpaceCAD has an Microsoft Office-compliant and highly intuitive user interface. You can start designing rockets in minutes!

Complete 3D support

Zoom in your rocket, opaque walls (allows you to see the inside of your model rocket)

Export to bitmap

Save your model rocket as a Windows Bitmap or JPEG file

Find out how high your rocket will go

Flight prediction
Change the delay between the engines and see how it affects your model rocket's flight

See exactly how your second stage ignites, control when the first stages is jettisonned!

SpaceCAD 4 allows you to enter launch site details like air pressure, height, humidity to realistically model the air density.
Entering your local launch data results in a more accurate flight prediction, because the air density has an impact on your rocket's flight. Alternatively, you can also let SpaceCAD use the "standard atmosphere" that uses a standardized way for the air density based on your launch site height (you can read more one that on Wikipedia).

Basically, this allows you to simulate how the rocket flies at different launch sites - for example, if you're in Florida you can better prepare for the different conditions in Virginia.

Recovery Prediction - from apogee to landing

The recovery designer allows you to analyze and fine-tune your rocket's landing.
This allows you to exactly see how long and how far away your rocket will float and how long it will take until it reaches the ground. This is especially helpful if you need to build your recovery system for an exact floating time, like in the TARC contest. Also, this feature allows your rocket to have two recovery systems that work in tandem. It can work on altitude ejection, time based ejection (after apogee or after launch), giving high-power rocketeers all the freedom they need to succesfully recover their rockets.

You can also prepare different recovery systems by running multiple simulations for different wind speeds. So you are prepared for all wind situations!

Find out the real cd-Value

SpaceCAD allows you to find out the real cd value by providing means to compare the measured altitude with the computed one.
Predicting the real cd value is difficult. Even complex algorithms that some software provides often does not reflect the "real" cd value of a model rocket. But, with today's means, it's easy to do it the other way round: equip your model rocket with an altimeter to measure the "real" altitude. Enter that data in SpaceCAD, and it will compute the real cd value from that. A very exact way to find out the real cd value!

Print your rocket to build it

SpaceCAD includes the most sophisticated printout suite on the market today that no other model rocket software can match.

You can print a

• Nose cone pattern
• Transition cutout-guide
• Centering-guide
• Fin-position/-alignment and cutout-guide,
• Parachute pattern guide
• Comprehensive rocket data sheet
• Rocket's elements list

Rocket Data Sheet and Parts List (click to view PDF)

Complete Internet support

Save your model rocket data to a HTML document - this allows you to put your model rocket on your homepage, or publish it in the SpaceCAD rocket library!
Check if a new version of SpaceCAD is available - with the click of a button (and without giving away personal information!)

Extensible databases

SpaceCAD comes with a complete model rocket elements database. This means you do not have to enter the data yourself, just select it from the database!

• Parts (Nose cones, body tubes, …)
• Materials
• Rocket Motors (WRASP compliant)
• Plus: import feature for your existing RockSim database

Save the predicted data to a file and compare it with the measured data from the altimeter.

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