Inflatable boat

[dskira]

The best will be to learn from the ground up.
Try to have some king of internship at Zodiac, or similar builders and learn the trade.Good luck
Daniel

[Hardchina]

Originally Posted by Hardchina

I think the easy way to draw the patterns is to mock them up in paper tubes. They do not have to be 3d just joined and layed flat. The importat thing is to ensure the joint angles are the same so the tube sections match. I'm not real good at explaining things - but if you get a piece of paper and fold it in half then tape the edges to form a flat tube, then cut the joint angle required, you'll see what i'm getting at. The off cut when flipped 180 should be a perfect fit. - just a matter of staggering the seams so that they also match (if the section being joined raises off horizontal). If you try to join two different angles, then you have problems as the tube joint cross sections will be of different diameter.

Anyway i think the whole patten can be drawn in 2d,without actually drawing anything other than some angled lines, no need for any fancy cad or maths.

cheers Simon

Just been playing around wth paper templates again, looks like some fancy maths or 3d cutting templates will be needed .