Ships Hulls

IdahoJ · 18 Mar 2010, 14:11

DelftShip is a wonderful tool. I've been using it for the last few years to recreate hull data for turn of the century sailing canoes. These small craft were very popular in from about 1870 to 1900 but much of the original construction information has faded into history. Being able to import both lofting data and line drawings, (when I can either find them) makes Delftship very flexible.

I've also used Delftship to create a prototype design for a streamlined single wheel trailer to be pulled behind my '94 BMW R1100 RS sport bike...

Cheers!

BTW, as far as "perfect", I say don't sweat it. No one is going to get out a ruler and protractor to check your work! Close enough is good enough IMO.

Cheers!

charly2008 · 22 Mar 2010, 18:58

Hi Jeff,

would you be so kind to show us some examples you made with Delftship. That would interest me very much.

At present i try to develop a Viking Ship. The problems i'm thinking about is how to make the planks of the hull as a texture and how can I give a wall thickness to the hull. Any idea?

Karlheinz

Gaieus · 22 Mar 2010, 19:15

Wall thickness could be made with Joint PushPull by Fredo I guess. Maybe using Whaat's UVTools could then help with the planking. It should have some nice clinker planking.

charly2008 · 23 Mar 2010, 14:07

Hi Gaieus,
thanks for your tip. But the best result i got with "Push-Pull Multiple Faces Along Their Normals. The faces had to be done by "Make Faces 1.4.

Trace is a bit of manual work but better than having to redraw every vector.

Maybe helpfull for others.

charly2008 · 23 Mar 2010, 16:52

Hi,

i have a question to the professionals in the Forum.

A Problem of texturing the planks is that all planks are running horizontely (projected Texture) and this not correct. They should run along that red path shown below.

Is there any possibility to do so?

jo-ke · 6 Jul 2010, 17:23

@charly2008 said:

A Problem of texturing the planks is that all planks are running horizontely (projected Texture) and this not correct. They should run along that red path shown below.
Is there any possibility to do so?

I'm also waiting for an answer. This is a problem for me too. I hope for a solution.

pilou · 6 Jul 2010, 18:08

@unknownuser said:

I hope for a solution.

UV Tool?

Alan Fraser · 6 Jul 2010, 19:23

There's another free Hull designer here near the bottom of the page. It sometimes produces results that are double-skinned (mucho z-fighting) but that's easy enough to clear up with a few well-chosen SU commands. Basically temporarily hide the edges, delete the faces then use Create Face to create clean new ones.

Gaieus · 7 Jul 2010, 08:06

Or use ThomThom's Cleanup Plugin.

charly2008 · 9 Oct 2011, 20:55

Hi jo-ke,

@jo-ke said:

I'm also waiting for an answer. This is a problem for me too. I hope for a solution.

Have a look at: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=39442&start=105

Charly

jo-ke · 15 Oct 2011, 22:13

Thank you charlie. very good pluginn...