CATIA Soft Wing (Paraglider Type)

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Hello 
 
I am a student in aeronautical engineering and I have to carry out an aerodynamic study on a software (Star CCM+) of a flexible wing, i.e. a paraglider wing for example. But to do this study I first need to get a catia file of such a sail (ideally set up to carry out several studies under Star CCM+ but otherwise I will take care of setting it up). A small clarification: the wing must be solid to be able to study it under Star CCM+.  
After long hours of desperate research, I am turning to you if you can ever provide me with this type of file :) 
 
Thank you in advance for the help you can give :) me
 

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Hello

 

 But if you know how to set up the room, it must be because you have knowledge of Catia. Why not model it yourself then? You would save a lot of time by already knowing your part and being able to rectify here and there what is wrong during your aerodynamic study

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To complete coin37coin's answer, I think it would be more interesting to model the sail yourself.

If technically this is a problem for you, you will be able to question the community who will answer you without any problems.

Then there is the question of the software, see here for the standards of the education version: http://academy.3ds.com/fr/software/catia/catia-v5-student-edition/

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Hello

3D DXF files are available here:

http://www.gliderengineering.com/laboratoridenvol/leparagliding/archives/lep-3d.dxf

Or maybe here:

http://www.wingdesignsoftware.net/indexEN.htm

Otherwise, to draw it yourself, there is a lot of information on this site:

http://para2000.org/wings/index.html

See also:

https://grabcad.com/library/paraglider-mock-up

Or, on TurboSquid (but it doesn't have to be paid):

http://www.turbosquid.com/Search/Index.cfm?keyword=paragliding

 

 

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Thank you for all your answers.
To answer coin37coin, my teacher strongly advised us to get a model to save time (I'm not a pro at catia either, but doing configuration seems accessible to me if everything else is there).
Otherwise for remrem and .PL, the problem is that the files I find thanks to all your links, are in dxf format or other and I really need a file in catia format.
I tried to open a dxf with catia... but I absolutely don't know what to do with it, it seems to be in 2D and I totally land...

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Hello

Catia opens the DXF (2D) files in the Drafting Workbench to use some or all of these elements in the 3D:

We select them "copy"  and then we change the workshop, according to volume (Partdesign) or surface (generative Shape Design) needs. We create a sketch, "paste".

It remains to check the result (in particular that there are no overlapping lines, apertures, curves that are too segregated), then to constrain these elements in order to parameterize them.