Arrow Fletching

I did this for my science fair project to start learning about 3D printing, and am about to go to regional science fair after succeeding at my school. This is just one of my designs. This design was put on 1816 shafts and tested, and had very nice results, the best of all my designs.

I looked at 2 designs on thingiverse, however they did not meet my needs.

Here are some specifics - The sketchup model is divided into to components - the sleeve and the vane. The sleeve can easily be resized for other arrow shafts. I did not use any adhesive to locate the sleeve and vanes on the arrow shaft.The tolerance of the sleeve (on my printer) is such that it made a good friction fit on the aluminum arrow shaft. I used a small strip of tape to keep the sleeve from moving forward on the shaft when shooting the arrow. As my aluminum shafts were a little expensive, I indexed the vanes before each shoot.

At 9.2 meters the arrow(s) had a very similar flight pattern to my Easton feather fletch