Welcome to the OpenVSP Ground School!
NASA’s online tutorial program designed to guide users of all experience levels though the Open Vehicle Sketch Pad parametric geometry design tool.
This program provides video demonstrations of multiple concepts and features within OpenVSP and is intended to serve as a library of material for users to reference. Example files are also provided so you can follow along using the same models in the demonstrations.
A 2022 paper on OpenVSP providing in-depth details and history is available here.Robert A. McDonald and James R. Gloudemans. “Open Vehicle Sketch Pad: An Open Source Parametric Geometry and Analysis Tool for Conceptual Aircraft Design,” AIAA 2022-0004. AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum. January 2022.DOI:10.2514/6.2022-0004 Preprint
Disclaimer
We are actively migrating our site! Please be patient as we develop content in the new format. Until 9/30/25, the original Ground School site will remain available for all users. For specific questions about OpenVSP modeling and analyses, please search the OpenVSP Google Group or make a new Group post there.
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