How To Model Ship's Main Structures

[pilou]

A future master piece!

[jpalm32]

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

[irwanwr]

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]

@jpalm32 said:

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

Thank you, jpalm32

[Jean Lemire]

Hi Irwan, hi folks.

See this site:

Making of H.M.C.S Snowberry :: SketchUp 3D Rendering Tutorials by SketchUpArtists

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]

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.

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[Gaieus]

@irwanwr said:

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

That's better than anything I have built.

[irwanwr]

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.

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[Gaieus]

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]

@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]

WIP

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[sketchymick]

Very nice work ! amazing progress since your last post.

[irwanwr]

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

[AijAij]

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