JosephT
08-27-2009, 04:12 PM
Hello, a friend of mine has built a prototype canoe and he would like to capture the offsets. What are some low cost ways of doing this? We would like to import the hull offsets into Freeship and tweak the hull a bit.
I have explored doing laser scans, etc., but they are a bit expensive. If any ship building measure/transfer tools or alternate methods are available perhaps those would do the job. We would like to capture the data on a spreadsheet or input file, then import into Freeship (or another tool).
I realize manually measuring a hull is open to human error. We can work around that with diligent recording & fixing mistakes manually.
Thanks,
Joseph
I have explored doing laser scans, etc., but they are a bit expensive. If any ship building measure/transfer tools or alternate methods are available perhaps those would do the job. We would like to capture the data on a spreadsheet or input file, then import into Freeship (or another tool).
I realize manually measuring a hull is open to human error. We can work around that with diligent recording & fixing mistakes manually.
Thanks,
Joseph