Ship Workbench

The Ship Workbench is unmaintained since v0.17. As of v0.19 it is now designated an external workbench, so it is no longer included in the base system. If you have experience with the topic and are interested in maintaining it, please see the project's repository.

Ship workbench icon

Introduction

The FreeCAD Ship Workbench is used to create structures that are common to ships.

The Tools

Ship Design

• Ship Geometries Examples Loader
• Ship instance creation
• Lines drawing
• Area Curve
• Hydrostatics

Weights

• : Weights definition
• : Tank creation
• : Tank capacity curve
• : Load conditions
• : Plot GZ curve

Tutorials

• FreeCAD-Ship s60 tutorial
• FreeCAD-Ship s60 tutorial (II)

Ship

• Ship design: Geometries examples, New, Outline, Area, Hydrostatics

• Weights: Weight, Tank, Tank capacity, Loading, Plot GZ curve

User documentation

• Installation: Windows, Unix, Mac; Getting started
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Workbenches, Preferences, Document structure, Interface Customization, Properties, Mouse Model; Tutorials
• Workbenches: Arch, Draft, FEM, Image, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Path, Plot, Points, Raytracing, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Ship, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface workbench, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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• Scripting: Introduction to Python, FreeCAD scripting tutorial, FreeCAD Scripting Basics, How to install macros, Gui Command, Units Modules: Builtin modules, Workbench creation, Installing more workbenches Meshes: Mesh Scripting, Mesh Module Parts: The Part Module, Topological data scripting, PythonOCC, Mesh to Part Coin scenegraph: The Coin/Inventor scenegraph, Pivy Qt interface: PySide, Using the FreeCAD GUI, Dialog creation Parametric objects: Scripted objects Other: Code snippets, Line drawing function, Embedding FreeCAD, FreeCAD vector math library, Power users hub, Python, Macros, FreeCAD Scripting Basics, Topological data scripting

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• Deprecated workbenches: Complete, Drawing