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.