Originally Posted by
Jeffrey Meyer
Hi Mark,
In a part window try Insert > Curve > Curve through XYZ Points...
You will be asked for a "Curve File", Browse for your Notepad text file and press enter.
Note that SW by default looks for a .dat file, not .txt - but when you browse for it you can change the browsing window to look for .txt file types.
Note also that the .txt file should be formatted in the form of a single line containing the delimited X,Y, & Z coordinates for each point (no headers or any other text).
The result will be a curve feature in the history tree (probably a good idea to rename the feature with the name of the airfoil).
In any sketch you can now Convert that feature into a black (fully constrained) sketch entity. By deleting the "conversion" constraint (thus making the entity unconstrained - blue) you can now do some cute manipulations. For example, in the sketch draw a straight construction line with a length equal to your required chord length and angled at your required angle of attack, and then drag the blue airfoil end points to the construction line end points. You now have your airfoil scaled and correctly oriented.
Hope this helps