Installation

Blender

I currently use blender's long term support version 2.83.9 (on linux) spcifically the tgz download, unpack and therein start blender. This allows me to use different versions in parallel (just in case).

Add-ons
For the curve simplification check to have edit>preferences>add-ons> Add curve: simplfy curves+ activated

Python modules
Blender comes with a bundled python in whereYouUnpacked/blender-2.91.0-linux64/2.91/python/bin

First check to have an up to date pip3 in the bin dir:

cd whereYouUnpacked/blender-2.91.0-linux64/2.91/python/bin
./python3.7m -m ensurepip
./python3.7m -m pip install -U pip

Now you can install python modules

./pip3 install matplotlib

For the foil analysis stuff, we need to be able to read / write xml files and tehrefore need

./pip3 install beautifulsoup4

BlenderCam

In order to be able to use blendercam follow the documentation. I might later on add some notes here, but for now concentrate on the scripting part for wing design.