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Ummmmm lost me there. This is basically the first time I been trying to loft up a hull, for that matter do a ship as I been used to planes.I am just using the outlines and stuff from the drawings. I've had luck Lofting a solid block then rendering the ribs/stations, or whatever you want to call them in order right after the other. Now do a Lofted Cut and take it to shape like your 'carving' it.Sometimes Guide Curves are not your friend.It can be done with each rib/station drawn in whole to make a solid but its aYou could try another way of doing this by rendering the hull in multiple sections and making an assembly drawing from that.
I am assuming that if I can figure out how to render Delftship's 'Unfold' view on some sort of plotter so that it prints actual size, that I will have a set of templates that I can just trace on to the plywood. Tangental question: Does anybody know what the '(P)' and '(SB)' views represent? Something with German Language I'm pretty sure. And maybe something around an option to include. Below you can see and download some of the projects I did using DELFTship. Tutorial 1 – Surface modeling Tutorial 2 – How to add a Rudder Trunk appendix. Tutorial 3 – Modeling a barge in a few minutes.
I find myself having to do this third method all the time.When I was messing around with the USS Ohio drawing in 1/96 the same stern problem came to bite me in the @$$. Your not the only one.Solidworks 2006&MasterCAM X3TommyL. No, unfortunately. Like Tim, all my CAD belongs to Dragon. I looked for some older versions of my hull that I did, but I must have lost them in the great crash of 2009.I hadn't realized you weren't surfacing, I'm sorry. I would suggest you need to spend some time learning it because it is absolutely the best way to make a hull.
It is also a skill most drafters don't learn in SolidWorks which would give you an advantage over them come hiring and/or firing time. Try getting Matt Lombard's surfacing bible, it is extremely useful. And don't expect it to work overnight, I spent months learning it.If you decide to stick with solids, then I certainly won't hold it against you, surfacing is a hard thing to learn. But I don't have as much experience with doing the hull in solids. Yes I usually do solids as all the work I do and need done requires solids. I am used to getting some really nasty curves etc done in solids with my planes and other stuff so I never had a need to learn sUrface modeling. That said I learned solidworks in 3 weeks on my own so if I can find some good tutorials shouldnt take me long with surfaces.
The problem I have right now is when I am doing planes I have done them so long that I can look at a plane and see every shape in the thing. When I look at a ship I only see guns and not shapes yet. ))Dont look like much but this was one of my toughest lofts mainly because of the elevation differences and the major shape changesAttachments:martinloft001.jpg 30.09 KiB Viewed 2301 times martinloft007.jpg 83.25 KiB Viewed 2301 times.