Tutorial - How to draw a hull

Gianluca · 10 Jun 2010, 10:27

Hello all!
I'm Gianluca and i,m 18 years old. I like Sketchup and i use it principally for draw ships..
Sorry for my bad english but i'm italian!
Here some pics of my creations:

Now, i have a question!
How can i draw this part of my ships? In italian i call it "the hull"..

Thanks for your help!

Gaieus · 10 Jun 2010, 10:52

Hi Gianluca and welcome to SCF!

I love ships myself (although prefer old sailing ships) and exactly know how it is to "fight" with SU while creating the hulls.

You may be interested in Silver_Shadow's Eye Candy he posted a while ago...

Gianluca · 10 Jun 2010, 11:33

Thanks for your answer Gaieus! The post is very interesting, it is a super model! Thanks again!

Gaieus · 11 Jun 2010, 08:26

And as for your hull questions (as I did not answer that part); best would be to upload that part of the model and people could chime in with different suggestions. There are a bunch of plugins that can help depending on what line structure you start from.

pilou · 11 Jun 2010, 11:59

Best plugs for this seems the collection of Extrude Edges Tools by Tig...
Bon courage!

Gianluca · 11 Jun 2010, 14:56

Thank you charly2008! I'll try the program now!

charly2008 · 11 Jun 2010, 16:40

If you've focused on the construction of ships, You should become familiar with the free version of the program Delftship. This program is ideal for the professional construction of ship hulls. I even had a couple of hours training to make hulls not yet perfect. See the link below.

Karl

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=26870&p=235033&hilit=hulls#p235033

Hull.skp

jgb · 13 Jun 2010, 18:42

Ships and planes share the same SU design challenges.

One tip: Best to work on a 1/2 hull as a component, then when done copy it abeam, flip it and move them together. Don't explode or merge them. Now any changes to one side is reflected on the other.

charly2008 · 13 Jun 2010, 19:29

I forgot to mention that you can also export a half hull from Delftship.

Gaieus · 13 Jun 2010, 19:47

@charly2008 said:

I forgot to mention that you can also export a half hull from Delftship.

Like the firsthalf above?

charly2008 · 13 Jun 2010, 20:36

Half hull component

Gianluca · 14 Jun 2010, 19:24

@charly2008 said:

I forgot to mention that you can also export a half hull from Delftship.

How can i export the hull on SketchUp?

xrok1 · 14 Jun 2010, 19:47

export DXF, import DXF.

Gianluca · 15 Jun 2010, 07:06

@xrok1 said:

export DXF, import DXF.

Thank you!

Gianluca · 22 Jun 2010, 10:05

How can i draw the hull of my ship under this face with DelftShip?

charly2008 · 22 Jun 2010, 10:25

Hi Gianluca,

the best workflow is to import your shape as a background image in the plan view. There are many tutorials in th net see the links below.

http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CCAQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boatdesign.net%2Fforums%2Fattachments%2Fdesign-software%2F33338d1248034181-step-step-design-your-boat-tutorial01.pdf&rct=j&q=delftship+tutorial&ei=A4wgTP-tDZyJONvj9B4&usg=AFQjCNFixMtN16ezIqLrCdCMdBpedUmw0Q.

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19208.0

(forum.woodenboat.com)

Gianluca · 22 Jun 2010, 10:32

Thank you Charlie2008!

pilou · 22 Jun 2010, 11:27

Soap Skin and Bubble can make also half Hull
FOr the moment it's always free

Gianluca · 22 Jun 2010, 11:34

@unknownuser said:

Soap Skin and Bubble can make also half Hull
FOr the moment it's always free

Yes, i have it!
Thanks for reply Pilou!

charly2008 · 22 Jun 2010, 12:07

Here again the workflow:

Export the model (in this the plan view, you can additional export the profile view) as image with dimensions from sketchup.
Import the Image to Delftship. Place it at point of origin and then scale the image.
Model the hull
Export model as dxf and import into Sketchup