Ship Workbench

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)

History

The Ship Workbench was unmaintained since v0.17 but has been resurrected in v0.19. As of v0.19 it also now designated an external workbench, so it is no longer included in the base system. Instead it's available via the Addon Manager

References

• Developer: Jose Luis Cercós Pita (@sanguinariojoe)
• Github: https://github.com/FreeCAD/freecad.ship
• Discussion: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=60885

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, Assembly, CAM, Draft, FEM, Inspection, Mesh, OpenSCAD, Part, PartDesign, Points, Reverse Engineering, Robot, Sketcher, Spreadsheet, Start, Surface, TechDraw, Test Framework, Web

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

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