Ship Workbench

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Index

Introduction

Note: The Ship WB, since v0.16-v0.17, has been unmaintained and is now designated as an External Workbench. If you are interested in maintaining it please let us know.

The 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)

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Index

Ship

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

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

User documentation

• Getting started
• Installation: Download, Windows, Linux, Mac, Additional components, Docker, AppImage, Ubuntu Snap
• Basics: About FreeCAD, Interface, Mouse navigation, Selection methods, Object name, Preferences, Workbenches, Document structure, Properties; Help FreeCAD, Donate

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• Help: Tutorials, Video tutorials
• Workbenches: Std Base; Arch, Draft, FEM, Image, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Path, Points, Raytracing, Reverse Engineering, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web
• Deprecated or unmaintained workbenches: Complete, Drawing, Robot

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• Addons: Addon Manager, External workbenches, Scripting and macros

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• Hubs: User hub, Power users hub, Developer hub