Curviloft! This did EXACTLY what I needed. This boat is be a racing "yacht" as described by our client. I have some more figuring out to do, but this is a great start. I'll be back with more questions as the boat progresses. Thank you all for the tip and and thank you to Fredo for the great plugin.

Delvon

Hi,

I'm trying to "accurately" recreate/model a boat of which I have some actual CAD drawings for. I can't figure out how to do this. I've seen some tuts on creating a boat, but nothing on recreating an existing form...

I've searched around a bit on google and forums on how to create complex shapes and forms, and have found soapskin bubble, and artisan (subdivide and smooth). Am i barking up the right tree with these? I've played around with them for a bit, but am not coming up with the result i need, niether of which are allowing me to really do what I want. I don't have too much time to experiment, so i'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Attached is an image of where i was able to get it so far. Although Im not adept at reading boat construction drawings, I was able to get a fin down the middle and these "ribs" down the sides. I was hoping i could use these ribs to somehow drape a skin over, or get a surface to conform to their overall shape and then manipulate as necessary with Artisan or smoove.

I at one point considered myself a fairly advanced SU user, but this has rightly put me in my place. Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Delvon