How To Model Ship's Main Structures

irwanwr · 10 Feb 2013, 23:24

Hi forum,
Do we have any Tutorial on modelling ship's main structures here somewhere?
Mainly such as keel, hull and ribs, etc?
Thank you.

pbacot · 11 Feb 2013, 03:13

did you see this ? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=28906&p=253844&hilit=boat+tutorial#p253844

irwanwr · 11 Feb 2013, 06:05

Hi Peter,
No, I haven't yet. Thank you very very much
So tired looking even in youtube almost 24 hours for a decent way to do it.

PS: I thought that was just the same kind of tuts we could find on youtube.
I didn't scroll down to see charly2008's replies there. I hope no one else saw this post

[Ed]
charly2008 uses DELFTship there. I also had it here 2-3 days ago. But, haven't install it yet though.
I thought there are other ways to do it natively in SketchUp.
I've tried using Curviloft yesterday. Quite close to what it should look like.
Thought there are other hints on sharpening my way of using either Curviloft or Extrude Tools.

[Ed]
Meanwhile, I'll see what I could do.
Here's the model I've tried to work on.

Aldeboran Sloop model

Aldeboran Drawings pdf

sketchymick · 11 Feb 2013, 08:38

I guess you've seen some of the inspirational boat work by Axeonalias in the WIP forum? I don't remember any how to guides in his posts, but you can see the progress over time on some great models.

irwanwr · 11 Feb 2013, 22:40

@sketchymick said:

I guess you've seen some of the inspirational boat work by Axeonalias in the WIP forum? I don't remember any how to guides in his posts, but you can see the progress over time on some great models.

Yes, I've seen them long time ago. I have the thought long before I even know Axeonalias.
But Axeonalias, Silver Shadow, etc. gave me the thought that such modelling is feasible and could be done within SketchUp.
Thank you sketchymick.

pilou · 11 Feb 2013, 23:02

A future master piece!

jpalm32 · 12 Feb 2013, 14:55

Here's a site with free s/w that might help
http://www.delftship.net/delftship/

irwanwr · 12 Feb 2013, 15:20

Thank you, Monsieur.
I'm afraid I'm still way far from proper modelling on ship or boat.
Last night succeed with DELFTship, but still thinking to find a way to model it within SketchUp.

Merci beaucoup, Monsieur.

irwanwr · 14 Feb 2013, 06:34

@jpalm32 said:

Here's a site with free s/w that might help
http://www.delftship.net/delftship/

Thank you, jpalm32

Jean Lemire · 14 Feb 2013, 15:21

Hi Irwan, hi folks.

See this site:

By Jacques Cleghorn (AKA silver_shadow) Preface by the author - "I bought this plastic model ship about 4 years ago and built it with my dad, doi

(www.sketchupartists.org)

Just ideas.

irwanwr · 15 Feb 2013, 12:08

Hi Monsieur Lemire,

Thank you for the info. I've seen the page before.
He posted the same modelling here too, if I'm not mistaken.

I've tried DELFTship several times. But it gives me 5.35 MB just for half of the hull
I've made up my mind to keep using either Curviloft or Extrusion Tools for it.
Or, just sewing it by hand and soften smooth it later.

Here's what I got so far.

Gaieus · 16 Feb 2013, 09:05

@irwanwr said:

...Here's what I got so far.

That's better than anything I have built.

irwanwr · 18 Feb 2013, 15:38

Thank you, sir.

This is how it looks like last night. Haven't got time to work on it again.
Still have to do something else to help my brother with his field work reports.

Gaieus · 18 Feb 2013, 18:33

Definitely very nice (I am thinking about banning you from the Newbie Forum )

What is that faint "bump" or line on the hull though?

irwanwr · 19 Feb 2013, 03:18

@gaieus said:

Definitely very nice (I am thinking about banning you from the Newbie Forum )

What is that faint "bump" or line on the hull though?

No. Please, don't ban me from the Newbie Forum
I am still trying to learn. It's written on the Forum info as "Ask any question or just introduce yourself". And I don't know where else to put this post to ask question.
Anyway, even hellnbak and elisei wrote on their profile as "beginner"

I made that "line" by using Pipe Along Path, to separate the hull parts. As it is shown in the model's pdf drawings.

irwanwr · 28 Feb 2013, 07:44

WIP

sketchymick · 28 Feb 2013, 08:13

Very nice work ! amazing progress since your last post.

irwanwr · 28 Feb 2013, 08:51

thank you, Mick.
posted to show my gratitude for the forum. been like that couple days ago.

AijAij · 22 Jun 2014, 02:01

Hello,

I might be a year or so late, but just was browsing around in posts, and ended up at your post.
In case you are still interrested in different ways to draw a hull, I attached my way of drawing. It is certainly not the best way, but it's A way.

Using the original linesplan of a ship. Each line at different levels have a x,y coordinate, which put together gives the lines of the hull. All these lines stacked on top of each other give then the complete linesplan, which you can then close on the outside to create your hull.
Basically the system works as how Delfship uses their program, but there I always turned up to set the coordinates wrong, which resulted in very strange shapes suddenly.

Hope this helps, enjoy