Modeling Boat Hull or Fuselage Tutorial

[Arbiter]

Hi Folks,
Thanks so much for your help recently! I am sorry I haven't posted in a while but I was busy with a quarter at University of Cincinnati! Go Bearcats! Anyways, I was messing around with Boundary blend and ways to generated a highly curved fuselage and/or boat hull and here's a tutorial I came up with to help me walk through the steps. It does not use mirrored geometry for each side, but it uses relations to ensure that both sides (The plan is to have vertical symmetry) are the same. Sorry if the formatting is not very awesome, it's not a formal tutorial, it's mainly my notes pasted into PDF from one-note, but it should flow alright. Let me know what you think or if there are easier ways to do some of the things I was doing in it.... OR just enjoy it and hopefully it helps someone else other than just myself understand ProE better. Thanks again for your help and advice, I think I learned a lot from you!

-Chris Z.

2009-03-18_234744_Fuselage_Or_Hull_Tutorial.zip

 

[[-Skint-]]

Hey Chris, havent had any time to look at it or give it a go, but just wanted to say that its a real nice contribution to the forum. Anything like this in my eyes is always welcome. I know they are your own notes etc but you didnt have to share all that work, so On behalf of MCAD Thanks

 

[Arbiter]

No Problem Skint! Hope it helps at some point!

-Chris

 

[[-Skint-]]

Jeez im like some sort of MCAD moderator or something

 

[Miko]

Hi Skint, still catching many posts here ?

who actually are we MVP?

Moderator V*** Person or what ?

 

[Jacoolo]

Arbiter

there some areas to be discussed:

*first - 3nd boundary blend. You should avoid building such surfaces, instead implementing any of known approaches - Bart`s toupee method to mention at least

*section curves - remember each extra point inserted in spline disturbs curvature plot

 

[design-engine]

I am curious why hull designers choose to use Rhino for hull design? Can anyone comment?

 

[Arbiter]

Jacek,
Thanks for the tips! I will try to look into the section curves stuff you pointed out! However, I have not found any comprehensive description of how to execture Bart's Toupee Method.... If there's a post that describes it in detail please let me know. Thanks!

Bart,
I am not sure why they use Rhino. I am using ProE to design an airplane, and I think it will work just fine for what I need it to do!

-Chris
Edited by: Arbiter

 

[wsylvester]

Topic: how do you model a huey nose?