ThrustLab

Results

The Results page is where a finished simulation tells you what your powertrain actually does. This page documents every number, column, chart and flag on it — what each one is, how to read it (which way is better), what a reasonable value looks like, and the one thing people most often misread. The ⓘ next to any result links straight to its section here.

Results come in three flavours that share a common core:

If a result is flagged in red, see the dedicated Warnings explained page for the threshold it tripped and what to do.


Overview — the KPI strip

The seven tiles at the top are the headline numbers for the run. Read them first; everything below explains where they come from.

Total Thrust

The combined lift produced by every rotor at this operating point — the sum of the per-rotor thrusts.

How to read it. Higher is more lift. As a rule of thumb you want total thrust around twice the all-up weight for responsive flight; 1:1 barely hovers.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit (N / lbf / gf / kgf)
Typical~2× all-up weight for agile multirotors

Watch out. Thrust falls as the battery sags, so judge it near the end-of-discharge voltage, not just at full charge.

Related: Thrust units · per-rotor Thrust

Total Power

The total electrical power the pack delivers at this point, summed across all rotors — the number that drains your battery.

How to read it. Lower power for the same thrust means a more efficient system.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsW

Watch out. This is electrical (bus) power, not shaft power — the gap between them is your ESC and motor losses, shown in the power-flow diagram.

Related: g / W · Pack

System η

Overall powertrain efficiency (η, the Greek letter eta) — the fraction of electrical power that ends up as useful propeller shaft power, across the ESC, motor and prop.

How to read it. Higher is better; more of your battery becomes thrust.

Typeresult · metric
Units%

Watch out. Efficiency peaks at a partial throttle, not at full throttle, so the most efficient cruise is rarely wide-open.

Related: per-rotor η · g / W

g / W

Grams of thrust produced per watt of electrical power — the single best efficiency yardstick for hover.

How to read it. Higher is better; you get more lift for the same battery drain. A reasonable hover figure is roughly 5–10 g/W for an efficient multirotor.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsg/W
Typical~5–10 g/W at hover

Watch out. g/W falls as throttle climbs, so a number quoted at hover will not hold at full throttle.

Related: System η

Pack Current

The total current drawn from the battery at this point, summed across all rotors.

How to read it. Lower current for the same flight is gentler on the pack. This is the number to compare against your battery's C-rating limit.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsA

Watch out. Peak current at full throttle can be far above the average — size the pack for the peak, not the cruise.

Related: Pack · Endurance

Endurance

Estimated flight time remaining at this operating point, shown as mm:ss — the time you could hold this exact throttle for the whole flight.

How to read it. Higher is longer flight. It is computed from the Total Bus Current — the full current drawn from the battery with ESC losses included, the same value shown as Pack Current — assuming 80% usable capacity (a 20% reserve for LiPo longevity). The Remaining Capacity (mAh) still shows the physical charge left; the reserve applies to the flight-time estimate only.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsmm:ss

Watch out. It assumes you hold this exact throttle for the whole flight; a real mission with climbs and manoeuvres will be shorter, and because of the 20% reserve the estimate stops before a dead-flat pack.

Related: Pack Current · State of charge

Max magnet temp

The hottest motor-magnet temperature across all rotors at this point.

How to read it. Lower is safer; magnets lose strength as they heat and are permanently weakened above about 120 °C.

Typeresult · metric
Units°C
Typicalkeep below ~120 °C

Watch out. This is a steady-state estimate — a long full-throttle climb can push the real magnet hotter than a brief burst, so check it at your worst-case sustained throttle.

Related: Magnet (thermal) · Irreversible magnet warning

Total vertical

The whole vehicle's vertical (weight-supporting) force — every rotor's Vert force summed, counting each rotor in a group. This tile appears only when a flight condition (a tilt angle, or a climb/descent speed) is set; a plain hover shows the usual tiles unchanged.

How to read it. Compare it to your all-up weight to judge whether the craft can hold or gain altitude.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit (N / lbf / gf / kgf)
Typicalcompare against all-up weight

Watch out. It sums the entire vehicle, so each per-rotor Vert force is only a fraction of this.

Related: Total Thrust · Total horizontal

Total horizontal

The whole vehicle's forward (propulsive) force — every rotor's Horiz force summed. Appears only when a flight condition is set.

How to read it. Higher means more net push to accelerate or to hold speed against drag.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit (N / lbf / gf / kgf)
Typicalnear zero in hover; grows with forward tilt / airspeed

Watch out. In a hover this is near zero by design; it grows as rotors tilt forward or the craft flies faster.

Related: Total vertical · Total Thrust


Overview — per-rotor cards

Each rotor gets a card with its own numbers. Expand a card for the Aero and ESC detail (documented in the per-rotor table columns below).

Throttle (per rotor)

The commanded throttle for this rotor, as a percent of full power — an input echoed back so the card is self-contained.

How to read it. Reasonable hover throttle is well below 100%.

Typeresult · metric
Units%
Typical40–70% at hover

Watch out. In a sweep this changes per grid point, so read it alongside the other numbers on the same card.

Current (per rotor)

The current this single rotor's motor draws.

How to read it. Lower for the same thrust is more efficient and cooler-running.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsA

Watch out. This is per-rotor — read Pack Current before comparing against the battery's limit.

RPM (per rotor)

How fast this rotor spins, in revolutions per minute.

How to read it. Higher RPM generally means more thrust from the same prop, but also more current, heat and noise.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsrpm

Watch out. Pushing RPM until the blade tips approach the speed of sound (high Mach tip) causes a sharp efficiency loss.

Motor V (per rotor)

The voltage actually reaching the motor after the ESC. With Kv it sets the no-load RPM.

How to read it. Closer to pack voltage means a lower-loss ESC.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsV

Watch out. This sits below the pack voltage by the ESC's voltage drop (ΔV) — a big gap means a lossy ESC or thin motor wires.

Thrust (per rotor)

The lift this single rotor produces.

How to read it. Higher is more lift, in your chosen thrust unit.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit

Watch out. This is per-rotor; the Total Thrust KPI is the sum you compare to all-up weight.

H-force (per rotor)

The in-plane force on this rotor's disk — the sideways (edgewise) push that appears when air flows across the disk instead of straight through it, as in fast forward flight or a steeply tilted rotor. These force rows appear only when a flight condition is set.

How to read it. It is zero when there is no crosswise airflow and grows with edgewise speed. It is reported in the rotor's own frame.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit

Watch out. The Vert force and Horiz force rows resolve thrust and this force into up / forward directions.

Vert force (per rotor)

The part of this rotor's force that acts straight up against gravity, in the ground frame — thrust and the in-plane force resolved through the rotor's tilt.

How to read it. Higher means more weight support.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit

Watch out. At a small tilt almost all thrust is vertical; nearer a 90° lifting pose the split shifts, so read it together with Horiz force.

Horiz force (per rotor)

The part of this rotor's force that acts forward, in the ground frame — the propulsive component that pushes the craft against drag.

How to read it. Higher means more forward push.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit

Watch out. A purely lifting rotor makes almost no horizontal force, while a forward-tilted or cruise rotor makes more.

Torque (per rotor)

The twisting force the motor applies to the propeller shaft, in newton-metres. It rises with throttle and prop size.

How to read it. It is what the motor's current ultimately produces.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsNm

Watch out. High torque at low RPM is the hardest regime for a motor thermally — pair it with the magnet temperature.

Mech P (per rotor)

Mechanical (shaft) power — the power actually delivered to the propeller, which is torque times rotational speed.

How to read it. It is always less than the electrical power by the motor's losses.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsW

Watch out. The ratio of Mech P to Elec P on the same card is the motor-plus-ESC efficiency.

Elec P (per rotor)

Electrical power drawn by this rotor's motor — voltage times current at the motor terminals.

How to read it. Lower for the same thrust is more efficient.

Typeresult · metric
UnitsW

Watch out. The difference between Elec P and Mech P is the heat dumped in the windings, which drives the winding and magnet temperatures.

η (per rotor)

This rotor's efficiency (η, eta) — the fraction of its electrical power that becomes useful shaft power.

How to read it. Higher is better.

Typeresult · metric
Units%

Watch out. It peaks at partial throttle; the System η KPI rolls all rotors together.

g / W (per rotor)

Grams of thrust per watt for this single rotor — its hover-efficiency yardstick.

How to read it. Higher is better.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsg/W
Typical~5–10 g/W at hover

Watch out. It falls as throttle rises, so a value read at hover overstates efficiency at full throttle.

Pe (per rotor)

advanced Propeller efficiency (Pe) — how well the propeller alone converts shaft power into useful thrust-times-airspeed, separate from the motor and ESC. Advanced — most users can leave this to the experts.

How to read it. Higher is better.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsdimensionless (0–1)
Typical~0 at static, climbs in forward flight

Watch out. At static (hover, zero airspeed) Pe is near zero by definition because there is no forward speed — it only becomes meaningful in forward flight.

Related: Advance ratio (J)

Magnet (per rotor)

This motor's magnet temperature at this point.

How to read it. Lower is safer; above about 120 °C magnets are permanently weakened.

Typeresult · metric
Units°C
Typicalkeep below ~120 °C

Watch out. A card showing red here means this specific rotor is the thermal bottleneck — see the Thermal tab and the magnet warning.


Powertrain — the power-flow diagram

The Powertrain tab opens with a left-to-right diagram: Pack → −ESC loss → −Motor loss → Shaft, with the percentage of pack power at each step. It is the clearest way to see where your watts go on the way to thrust.

Pack

The starting point of the power-flow diagram: the total electrical power leaving the battery. Everything downstream is this number minus losses.

How to read it. It equals Total Power — the diagram simply shows where each watt goes.

Typeresult · diagram segment
UnitsW

Watch out. Pack power is electrical, not mechanical — the useful work is the Shaft segment at the far end.

ESC loss

Power burnt as heat in the electronic speed controller (ESC) and motor wires, as a percent of pack power.

How to read it. Lower is better. A few percent is normal.

Typeresult · diagram segment
Units% of pack power

Watch out. A large slice points to an undersized ESC or thin/long motor wires — and this heat has to go somewhere, so it is also an ESC-cooling problem.

Related: P loss · η_esc · ΔV

Motor loss

Power lost in the motor itself — copper (resistive) and iron (magnetic) losses — as a percent of pack power.

How to read it. Lower is better.

Typeresult · diagram segment
Units% of pack power

Watch out. This is the heat that raises the winding and magnet temperatures, so a large motor loss and a high magnet temperature go hand in hand.

Shaft

The end of the diagram: the mechanical power that actually reaches the propellers after ESC and motor losses.

How to read it. Higher (a larger share of pack power) means a more efficient powertrain.

Typeresult · diagram segment
UnitsW

Watch out. Shaft power is not thrust — a propeller still has its own efficiency (Pe) turning shaft power into useful lift.


Powertrain — the per-rotor table

A wide table with one row per rotor, grouped into Aerodynamic, Electrical and ESC columns. The aerodynamic coefficients only make sense alongside the advance ratio, so read J first.

J

advanced Advance ratio (J) — how far the propeller travels forward in one revolution relative to its diameter, a dimensionless measure of how loaded the prop is.

How to read it. It is 0 at static (hover) and climbs with airspeed.

Typeresult · column
Unitsdimensionless
Typical0 static, 0.3–0.8 in forward flight

Watch out. Most propeller coefficients (Ct, Cp) only make sense alongside J, so read this column first.

Related: Advance ratio (J)

Ct

advanced Thrust coefficient (Ct) — the propeller's thrust normalised by air density, RPM and diameter, so different props compare on equal terms.

How to read it. Higher Ct means more thrust per rev.

Typeresult · column
Unitsdimensionless

Watch out. Ct drops as J rises (forward speed), so compare two props at the same J, not the same RPM.

Cp

advanced Power coefficient (Cp) — the shaft power the propeller absorbs, normalised the same way as Ct.

How to read it. Lower Cp for the same Ct means a more efficient prop.

Typeresult · column
Unitsdimensionless

Watch out. Cp is what loads the motor; a prop with high Cp will pull more current and run the motor hotter at the same RPM.

Pe (column)

advanced Propeller efficiency (Pe) in the per-rotor table — useful thrust power out divided by shaft power in, for the prop alone.

How to read it. Higher is better.

Typeresult · column
Unitsdimensionless (0–1)

Watch out. It is near zero at static and only meaningful in forward flight; do not read a hover Pe as a verdict on the prop.

Mach tip

advanced The speed of the blade tips as a fraction of the speed of sound (Mach 1).

How to read it. Lower is safer and quieter.

Typeresult · column
UnitsMach (fraction of sound speed)
Typicalkeep below ~0.7–0.8

Watch out. Above roughly Mach 0.7–0.8 the tips hit compressibility and efficiency falls off sharply — a high Mach tip is the usual reason a fast-spinning small prop is loud and inefficient.

Related: frac_above_Mdd · Compressibility warning

RPM (column)

Propeller rotational speed in the table view.

How to read it. Higher RPM gives more thrust from the same prop but more current, heat and noise.

Typeresult · column
Unitsrpm

Watch out. Read it together with Mach tip.

Thrust (column)

Per-rotor thrust in the table view.

How to read it. Higher is more lift, in your chosen thrust unit.

Typeresult · column
Unitsyour chosen thrust unit

Watch out. This is one rotor's contribution — the Total Thrust KPI is the sum you compare to weight.

Motor V (column)

Voltage at the motor terminals (after the ESC) in the table view.

How to read it. With Kv it sets the no-load RPM.

Typeresult · column
UnitsV

Watch out. It sits below pack voltage by the ESC drop (ΔV).

Current (column)

Motor (phase-side) current for this rotor in the table view.

How to read it. Lower for the same thrust is more efficient and cooler.

Typeresult · column
UnitsA

Watch out. Motor current and the battery Bus A differ — they are not the same number.

Bus A

advanced Bus current — the current drawn from the battery for this rotor, on the DC pack side of the ESC. This is what counts against the pack's C-rating.

How to read it. Lower is gentler on the pack.

Typeresult · column
UnitsA

Watch out. Bus current is lower than the motor phase current on a six-step/PWM ESC; do not confuse the two when checking your battery limit.

Shaft P

Shaft (mechanical) power delivered to the propeller for this rotor.

How to read it. It is torque times speed, and always less than electrical power.

Typeresult · column
UnitsW

Watch out. Shaft power is not thrust — the propeller's own efficiency still stands between shaft power and useful lift.

Elec P · η · g/W

A combined table cell: electrical power into this rotor, its efficiency (η), and its grams-per-watt.

How to read it. Lower Elec P with higher η and g/W is the efficient corner.

Typeresult · column
UnitsW · % · g/W

Watch out. η peaks at partial throttle and g/W falls as throttle rises — read all three together rather than chasing any one.

η (column)

Per-rotor efficiency (η, eta) in the table view — useful shaft power out over electrical power in.

How to read it. Higher is better.

Typeresult · column
Units%

Watch out. It is a snapshot at this operating point and peaks at partial throttle.

g/W (column)

Grams of thrust per watt for this rotor in the table view.

How to read it. Higher is better.

Typeresult · column
Unitsg/W
Typical~5–10 g/W at hover

Watch out. It falls steeply with throttle, so compare props and motors at the same throttle (or same thrust), never full-power versus hover.

ΔV

advanced ESC voltage drop (ΔV, delta-V) — how much voltage the ESC and motor wires lose between the pack and the motor.

How to read it. Lower is better; it is wasted as heat.

Typeresult · column
UnitsV

Watch out. A large ΔV means a lossy ESC or thin/long motor wires and shows up directly as ESC loss.

P loss

advanced ESC power loss for this rotor — the heat burnt in the ESC and motor wires, in watts.

How to read it. Lower is better.

Typeresult · column
UnitsW

Watch out. This heat must be cooled; a high P loss is both an efficiency hit and an ESC-thermal concern.

V → motor

advanced Voltage delivered to the motor after the ESC drop — the same quantity as Motor V, shown in the ESC group.

How to read it. Closer to pack voltage is a lower-loss ESC.

Typeresult · column
UnitsV

Watch out. Compare it to pack voltage; the difference is ΔV, your ESC + wire loss.

η_esc

advanced ESC efficiency (η_esc) — the fraction of pack power the ESC passes through to the motor without burning it as heat.

How to read it. Higher is better; a good ESC is well into the high-90s percent.

Typeresult · column
Units%
Typical~95–99%

Watch out. A low η_esc at high current usually means the ESC is undersized or running hot.


Battery

The Battery tab summarises the pack and shows per-cell heatmaps so you can spot an uneven or hot cell.

Pack (battery summary)

The battery pack summary at this point: pack voltage, current, draw, C-rate, configuration, internal resistance and endurance.

How to read it. Lower current and C-rate for the same flight are gentler on the pack.

Typeresult · section
UnitsV · A · W · C · mΩ · mm:ss

Watch out. A C-rate near the battery's rated limit means it is working hard — expect more sag and heat than the headline capacity suggests.

Related: C-rating · Endurance

SOC (per cell)

Per-cell state of charge (SOC) — how full each cell is, as a percent, laid out as a heatmap across the pack.

How to read it. You want the cells even; a cold or weak cell that reads low is the one that ends the flight.

Typeresult · heatmap metric
Units%

Watch out. In a steady-state run SOC is a single instant, not a trajectory — use a dynamic run to watch it drain over a mission.

Related: State of charge

Core temp (per cell)

Per-cell core temperature (T_core) — the internal temperature of each cell, the hottest part.

How to read it. Lower is safer.

Typeresult · heatmap metric
Units°C

Watch out. The core is hotter than the surface you can touch, so judge thermal safety on the core, not the case.

Surface temp (per cell)

Per-cell case (surface) temperature (T_case) — the outside skin of each cell, what a probe would read.

How to read it. Lower is safer.

Typeresult · heatmap metric
Units°C

Watch out. The case lags and reads cooler than the core inside, so a comfortable surface temperature can hide a hot core.

Resistance (per cell)

advanced Per-cell internal resistance (R_cell) — how much each cell resists current flow.

How to read it. Lower is better; resistance causes voltage sag and resistive heating.

Typeresult · heatmap metric
UnitsΩ

Watch out. A cell reading higher resistance than its neighbours is aging or cold — it is the pack's weak link.

Heat (per cell)

advanced Per-cell heat dissipation (P_cell) — the power each cell turns into heat under load, in watts.

How to read it. Lower is better.

Typeresult · heatmap metric
UnitsW

Watch out. Heat concentrates in high-resistance or high-current cells; an uneven heat map points to the cell that thermally limits the pack first.


Thermal

The Thermal tab has a per-rotor motor table and a battery section, plus convergence.

Winding

The motor winding (copper) temperature — the hottest electrical part of the motor.

How to read it. Lower is safer; the solver caps this at 155 °C.

Typeresult · column
Units°C
Typicalkeep below 155 °C

Watch out. Windings heat fastest under high current at low RPM, so a heavy prop at part throttle can cook them even when thrust looks modest.

Magnet (thermal)

The motor magnet temperature in the thermal table.

How to read it. Lower is safer; above about 120 °C magnets are permanently weakened.

Typeresult · column
Units°C
Typicalkeep below ~120 °C

Watch out. The magnet lags the windings but holds heat longer — a long climb matters more than a short burst. See the magnet warning.

Heat

advanced The heat the motor generates at this point — the loss power that drives the temperatures upward.

How to read it. Lower is better.

Typeresult · column
UnitsW

Watch out. Reducing heat (lower current, better-matched prop) is how you bring the temperatures down.

Thermal R

advanced Thermal resistance (R_th) — how strongly the motor resists shedding its heat to the air, in kelvin per watt.

How to read it. Lower is better; heat escapes more easily.

Typeresult · column
UnitsK/W

Watch out. R_th depends on your cooling setup — adding airflow or a cowling lowers it and directly cools the motor.

Cooling air

advanced The cooling-air speed the solver used over the motor — from airframe airspeed, the propeller slipstream, or your custom setting.

How to read it. Higher airflow cools better.

Typeresult · column
Unitsm/s

Watch out. In a static hover there is little or no cooling air, so motors run hottest at zero airspeed despite full throttle.

Conv

advanced Whether the thermal solver converged for this rotor — that is, whether the temperatures settled to a steady answer.

How to read it. You want this to read converged.

Typeresult · column
Unitsconverged / not

Watch out. A not-converged thermal result means the temperatures are an estimate the solver could not pin down; treat them with caution and check Diagnostics.


Diagnostics

The Diagnostics tab is where you confirm the result is trustworthy: convergence, per-rotor solver quality, safety flags, and the solver internals.

System convergence

Whether the whole simulation reached a self-consistent steady answer across the powertrain.

How to read it. You want it converged; a converged result is trustworthy.

Typeresult · status
Unitsconverged / not

Watch out. If it did not converge, the headline numbers are the solver's best unsettled estimate — inspect the per-rotor solver quality below before relying on them.

frac_converged

advanced The fraction of the propeller's blade stations whose inner aerodynamic loop converged, from 0 to 1.

How to read it. You want 1.0 — every station solved.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsfraction (0–1)

Watch out. A value below 1 means some blade sections did not settle (often heavily loaded or stalled tips), so that rotor's thrust and power are less reliable — see the convergence warning.

compressibility

advanced A flag that the propeller blade tips are running fast enough for air-compressibility effects to matter.

How to read it. off is the comfortable case.

Typeresult · flag
Unitson / off

Watch out. When this is on, the prop's thrust and efficiency suffer and the model is near its limits — slow the prop down (lower RPM or smaller diameter). See the compressibility warning.

frac_above_Mdd

advanced The fraction of blade stations running above the drag-divergence Mach number (M_dd) — the speed at which compressibility drag rises sharply.

How to read it. Lower is better; 0 is ideal.

Typeresult · metric
Unitsfraction (0–1)

Watch out. A non-zero value means part of the blade is paying a steep compressibility penalty; reduce tip speed to recover efficiency.

Safety flags

A roll-up of the active warnings at this operating point — magnet over-temperature, convergence shortfalls, compressibility, pack thermal.

How to read it. Fewer (ideally none) is better.

Typeresult · section
Unitscount of active flags

Watch out. A flag here is the headline; click through to the Warnings explained page to see the threshold it tripped and what to do.

Solver metadata

advanced The solver internals behind this run — solver name, thermal tolerances, iteration caps and the safety thresholds the result was computed against.

How to read it. It is reference detail, not a value to optimise.

Typeresult · reference
Unitsn/a

Watch out. The magnet (120 °C) and pack-thermal (60 °C) thresholds listed here are the same limits the warnings use, so they explain why a flag tripped.


Header controls

The controls along the top of every results page.

Thrust units

Switches the unit every thrust number on the page is shown in — newtons (N), pounds-force (lbf), grams-force (gf) or kilograms-force (kgf). It only changes the display, never the physics.

Typecontrol · select
OptionsN, lbf, gf, kgf

Watch out. Grams-force and kilograms-force are weight-equivalent units pilots often use, so pick the one you compare against your craft's weight.

Re-open exact inputs

Loads the exact inputs of this finished run back into the New Simulation form so you can tweak and re-run.

Typecontrol · action

Watch out. It never changes this saved run — running again creates a new record, so the original stays for comparison.

Under Share ▾, creates a public link to these results and copies it to your clipboard. ThrustLab asks you to confirm first, because the link is public — anyone you send it to can open the result without an account or access to your project.

Typecontrol · action

Watch out. Only share the link with people you intend to; the engineering-use disclaimer applies to everyone who opens it.

Export results (JSON)

advanced Downloads the full result for this run as a JSON file — every field, not just what is on screen.

Typecontrol · action

Watch out. The keys are the raw solver field names (which can differ from the friendly labels here), so keep this page open as a legend.

Solver version

advanced Which version of the simulation solver produced this result; it links to the changelog.

Typecontrol · chip

Watch out. Results from different solver versions are not always directly comparable — check two old runs share a version before trusting small differences.


Sweep results — Plots & Data

A sweep runs many operating points at once and adds two tabs.

Plots

The Plots tab (sweep runs only) shows the swept results as curves and surfaces — one card per metric — so you can see how thrust, power and efficiency change across the swept range.

Typecontrol · tab
Available onsweep runs

Watch out. A sweep is many operating points at once; pick the axes deliberately so the curve answers the question you care about.

Plot axes

Choose which swept variable goes on the X axis and which result goes on the Y axis of each plot card.

How to read it. Picking the right pair (e.g. throttle on X, g/W on Y) is what turns a sweep into an answer.

Typecontrol · select

Watch out. With two or more swept axes the plot shows one slice — change the axis selection to explore the others.

Point inspection

Hover or click a point on a sweep plot to see the full set of numbers for that exact grid point — the same detail you would get from a single-point run.

Typecontrol · interaction

Watch out. A smooth-looking curve can hide a single non-converged point; inspect any point that looks off.

Data

The Data tab (sweep runs only) lists every grid point in a paginated, filterable table — the raw numbers behind the plots.

Typecontrol · tab

Watch out. A large multi-axis sweep can run to thousands of rows; filter to the slice you care about rather than scrolling.

How to read a sweep

A sweep answers "how does this change across a range" instead of at one point. Each axis you sweep (throttle, airspeed, a component) adds a dimension; the result is a grid of points.

How to read it. Use the Plots tab to see the trend and the Data tab to find the exact best point. You can compare selected runs side by side to overlay curves.

Typeguide

Watch out. Every extra swept axis multiplies the grid points, so a two- or three-axis sweep grows fast — keep an eye on the grid-point count when you set it up.


Dynamic results — Time-Series & Events

A dynamic (time-domain) run plays a schedule over time and adds two tabs plus a scrubber.

Time-Series

The Time-Series tab (dynamic runs only) plots how each quantity — thrust, current, temperatures, state of charge — changes over the course of the flight rather than at a single instant.

Typecontrol · tab
Available ondynamic runs

Watch out. The interesting moments are the peaks and the end of the flight, not the average; scrub to them.

Scrubber

The transport bar that lets you scrub or play back the flight in time — drag the playhead to read every result at that instant, or press play to watch it evolve.

Typecontrol · interaction
Unitstime (s)

Watch out. The headline KPIs follow the playhead, so make sure you know which moment you are looking at before comparing numbers.

Inflow @ t

On the Overview tab of a dynamic run, one diagram per rotor shows how it met the air at the scrubbed instant: the disc drawn at its scheduled tilt, the freestream arrow built from the run's airspeed and vertical speed, and the dashed axial (green) / edgewise (red) arrows — the exact decomposition the solver integrated at that time. Press play on the scrubber to animate it through the flight, e.g. to watch a VTOL transition tilt forward as airspeed builds.

Typeresult · diagram
Unitsm/s, °

The Live-@-t KPI strip's Airspeed and V. speed tiles read the same scheduled lanes, and per-rotor Tilt, Axial inflow, and Edgewise inflow are plottable channels in the Time-Series tab. Runs completed before inflow lanes shipped don't carry them, so the card is hidden there.

Throttle timeline

Shows the commanded throttle for each rotor across the whole flight — the schedule you set, played back over time.

Typeresult · timeline
Units% over time

Watch out. Per-rotor throttles can differ in a mixed configuration, so read the timeline per rotor, not as one global value.

Events

The Events tab (dynamic runs only) lists discrete moments during the flight — thermal limits reached, convergence drops, the battery hitting a cutoff — in time order.

How to read it. Fewer (and later) events are better.

Typecontrol · tab

Watch out. Click an event to jump the scrubber to that instant and see exactly what the powertrain was doing when it tripped.

Export full series (CSV)

advanced Downloads the full-resolution time-series of a dynamic run as a CSV — every sample of every channel — for your own analysis.

Typecontrol · action

Watch out. The full series can be large; there is also a lighter "display series" export if you only need the points shown on screen.

How to read a time-domain run

A dynamic run answers "how long / how hot over the mission", a different question from a single steady point.

How to read it. Use the scrubber to move through time. The flight ends either at a fixed duration or when the battery is depleted (a cutoff); watch the state-of-charge and cell-voltage trajectories approach their cutoffs.

Typeguide

Watch out. A dynamic result is a trajectory — read the peaks and the endpoint, not a single average, and remember the temperatures build over time, so the worst moment is usually late in a sustained climb.

Related: State of charge

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