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"Ed Jackson" wrote in message 7.136... Ed Jackson wrote in 7.136: I have a table of offsets for a hull design I would like to build. Does anyone know of any softawre that I can use to plot these with? No big deal if I have to do it by hand, but thought software might be interesting. Thank you. Ed Thank you for the replies. I suspected what you both say is true. I'll just do it the old fashioned way. Thank you. Ed try the free download of Rhino. (Google for Rhino 3d) A big piece of software... and i belive the free version is the full package, but only saves so many times. I bought it some years ago and use it almost daily for designing things like cabin steps... working out bevels and cutting lists. I agree with the opinions here that doing it by hand is a usefull way... but I Would never work without Rhino |
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James says:
try the free download of Rhino. (Google for Rhino 3d) snip ... but I Would never work without Rhino I use Rhino every day, but would never try it for this purpose. The shpaes produced are just not fair. For a quickie guestimate of numbers, it may be fine, but that is it. Here's an example, kinda... I found this old lines plan in a book by Phillips-Birt: http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...ize/big/sort/1 /cat/500 After 2 hours with Rhino and a tracing program, I had something that looked right in profile, but had a surface so unfair that you could see the "planks" where Rhino had tried to fit a surface. Two more hours in AutoShip, woring "off-surface", it had faired into this: http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...ort/1/size/big /cat/500/page/ I'm not going ot kid you that those lines are exact, but they are extremely close. Eventually, my imagination got the better of me and I stuck on a deck and rig: http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...ort/1/cat/500/ page/1 With just Rhino, it would be another "failed project" on the back-burner. Steve Stephen C. Baker - Yacht Designer http://members.aol.com/SailDesign/pr...cbweb/home.htm |
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If this a stitch and glue type boat...
Rhino would work for this but I'd use the offsets as reference points only. If you limit the number of control points of a curve to 3-5, Rhino will produce a fair surface from those curves. There are limts to that of course. When you make a curve or surface in Rhino (and similar applications) the fewer amount of control points you use, the fairing the curve/surface will be. Set up the offsets and then redraw the curves and re-position the control points so you get close, but don't force them to match perfectly. Rhino does a nice job forming "natural" curves. -- Matt Langenfeld JEM Watercraft http://www.jemwatercraft.com Stephen Baker wrote: James says: try the free download of Rhino. (Google for Rhino 3d) snip ... but I Would never work without Rhino I use Rhino every day, but would never try it for this purpose. The shpaes produced are just not fair. For a quickie guestimate of numbers, it may be fine, but that is it. Here's an example, kinda... I found this old lines plan in a book by Phillips-Birt: http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...ize/big/sort/1 /cat/500 After 2 hours with Rhino and a tracing program, I had something that looked right in profile, but had a surface so unfair that you could see the "planks" where Rhino had tried to fit a surface. Two more hours in AutoShip, woring "off-surface", it had faired into this: http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...ort/1/size/big /cat/500/page/ I'm not going ot kid you that those lines are exact, but they are extremely close. Eventually, my imagination got the better of me and I stuck on a deck and rig: http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...ort/1/cat/500/ page/1 With just Rhino, it would be another "failed project" on the back-burner. Steve Stephen C. Baker - Yacht Designer http://members.aol.com/SailDesign/pr...cbweb/home.htm |
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Matt L says:
If this a stitch and glue type boat... Rhino would work for this but I'd use the offsets as reference points only. True. Stephen C. Baker - Yacht Designer http://members.aol.com/SailDesign/pr...cbweb/home.htm |
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