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Shop: How to take lines off a canoe?
By:dbynoe
Date: 9/28/2010, 3:56 pm

So I made a nice SOF canoe, I designed it myself (so no IP arguments). I now I want to draw up plans. I can do all the 3d modeling part of things, but I need to get the lines off the boat and into the computer.

Whats the easiest and quickest way to take the lines off the boat? (Assuming I don't have access to a laser scanner, though its kinda tempting to rig one up...)

The options I am looking at now are as follows:
A: Tick Stick - Seems like an okay way to get a quick 2D cross section, still have to measure the lines afterward
B: Pantograph - more of a good theory, couldn't quite get it to work right though (idea was to trace the hull with a 2x reduction onto a piece of paper)
C: Measure - Done it before, wasn't fun.

Anyone have any good methods other than the above, or tips to make the whole thing go faster?

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Shop: How to take lines off a canoe?
dbynoe -- 9/28/2010, 3:56 pm
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Paul G. Jacobson -- 10/2/2010, 5:57 am
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Mike -- 9/29/2010, 4:21 pm
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Reg Lake -- 9/29/2010, 11:42 am
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dbynoe -- 9/29/2010, 4:49 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2010, 9:16 am
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/29/2010, 9:36 am
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Bill Hamm -- 9/29/2010, 10:15 am