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Wingtip

The Wingtip tab shapes the tip outline and the tip's height.

Rounded wingtip

The section rings continue past the planform tip and narrow to a small blunt end ring. This is real span: switching it off squares the wing off at the tip and shortens it.

Outline

The gold tip points set the outline. Drag them in the viewport (fore/aft and spanwise) or steer the outermost one with the sliders. Everything is a fraction of the tip chord, so the tip keeps its character when the wing resizes.

• Tip extension: how far the tip reaches outboard past the planform, as a fraction of the tip chord. The built tip is a little shorter than this, because the cap closes once the outline narrows to its terminal chord.
• Sharpness: NURBS weight on the tip point. Low pulls the outline away from it for a blunt, round tip; high pulls it in for a pointed one.
• Tip rondure: where the Dihedral curve's outermost handle sits, as a share of the tip's own drop. It shapes how the dihedral arrives at the tip; it does not move the tip's height.

Reset to default cap discards a sculpted outline and returns the tip to the generated default for this planform.

Tip dihedral

The wingtip's height is the dihedral curve carried past the junction with its own curvature; by default there is nothing to adjust. Add a tip point for extra curl: it deviates smoothly (G3 at the junction) and never changes the wing's dihedral inboard of it. Reset to wing curvature removes every tip-dihedral point.

Adding a tip point makes the design an advanced wing: saving it takes only a free account, exporting it is Pro.

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