Ship Geometries Examples
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Ship sign criteria
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| Ship design → Load an example ship geometry |
| Workbenches |
| Ship |
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| Introduced in version |
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Description
Ship works over Ship entities, that must be created on top of provided geometry. Geometry must be a solid, or set of solids, following criteria must be taken into account:
- All hull geometry must be provided (including symmetric bodies).
- Starboard geometry must be included at negatives y domain.
- Origin (0,0,0) point is the Midship section (Midpoint between after and forward perpendicular) and base line intersection.
Usage
In order to help new users, Ship includes a geometries examples loader, with the following to choose from:
- Series 60 from Iowa University
- Wigley Canonical Ship
- Series 60 Catamaran
- Wigley Catamaran
- Invoke the Ship Geometries Example Loader by pressing on the
icon - A task dialog will display. Select Series 60 from Iowa University and press Accept
- Tool loads new document with s60_IowaUniversity geometry.
Warning, before editing anything! You are now working with the original example file. To preserve the original unedited example, you must first save it as a new file before editing anything.
Tutorials
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