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Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
By:PatrickC
Date: 3/11/2009, 10:00 am
In Response To: Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms (Phil Nelson)

It has soft chines. Woodstrip.

Since building a boat is both art and science, i've done the art part...it looks good. I just wonder if it will float.

If i can't do exact xy corrdinates then i did see i could use kayak foundry and get it pretty close by shaping a form with the program..then i could print that and overlay it over my form...repeat until they match. But i'm not sure kayak foundry can match the curves of the hull overall.

: Assuming your hull is hard-chined, I haven't tried it for myself but Freeship
: or Delftship should allow you to locate the control points of control
: edges at the exact xyz locations of the corners on your forms. You'll need
: to create the stem/stern using freeship tools to form a watertight hull,
: but once this is done hydrostatics should be available.

: Another way is to write a text file of the xyz co-ordinates of the chines at
: the form locations, then import it into freeship.

: Regards,

: Phil.

Messages In This Thread

Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
PatrickC -- 3/10/2009, 10:09 pm
Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
Phil Nelson -- 3/11/2009, 5:11 am
Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
PatrickC -- 3/11/2009, 10:00 am
Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
Kudzu -- 3/11/2009, 1:48 pm
Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
Phil Nelson -- 3/11/2009, 6:31 pm
Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
PatrickC -- 3/11/2009, 8:55 pm
Re: Seeking: Reverse engineering forms
Aaron H -- 3/11/2009, 12:01 pm