a newer involved in maxsurf

[jennifer]

Hello, every body here! I am just a newer in terms of maxsurf . Recently my tutor suggested that I'd better learn some softwares for ship design. It was not long before that he installed maxsurf in my computer. From then on ,I found that maxsurf was not same as other softwares as I have learnt before. I faced many difficulties that I can not solve by myself. Later , I will oftern browse the website and concern about the ideas exchanged in the forum. I wish I will make a lot of friends who are using maxsurf or some softwares related.

[SailDesign]

Jennifer,
This link will take to to a thread with a link to Maxsurf's student pages, where there is a tutorial to help get you started. We are lucky to have Andrew Mason from Maxsurf on this forum, as he is extremely generous with information about his product.

http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthr...xsurf+tutorial

Steve

[Andrew Mason]

Have a look at the manuals and tutorials on the Maxsurf Academic web site -
http://msacademic.formsys.com/downloads
and
http://msacademic.formsys.com/tutorials

If you still have specific questions once you have read through these, please post them here, I will be happy to answer them.

It is important to keep in mind that Maxsurf is not a drafting program like AutoCAD, it needs you to think in three dimensions, so it can take a bit of getting used to.

[zzt9876]

Hi, I think it so, I use this software 3 month long, but I found it is difference to other stability calculaiton software, if we want to make the loading manual, I think it is not convience. if we have the offest table. we do not input the shape directly,shall be use the control points. I use it make a part of hull structure. I spend half of day! and the hydrostatic result have some difference than other software (like as classNK IPCA). I want to get some help too, how to use it more quickly.
I am chinese too, I have the maxsurf 7.0 help manual chinese version.my email is ZZT9876@21CN.COM
I'd like to discuss the relate software.

[Andrew Mason]

Hydromax does require a surface model to function and this is a disadvantage if you are working from a linesplan as it requires you to recreate the hull shape in Maxsurf first. This can be time consuming if you just wish to do hydrostatics rather than further design work.

Fortunately most new designs these days are done with a system that defines a surface, and in addition to reading Maxsurf designs, Hydromax can import hull surfaces (via Maxsurf) using IGES or other formats, from Autoship, Fastship, Multisurf, CATIA, TRIBON, NAPA, ProEngineer, Rhino etc.

Using surface definitions gives much better accuracy than systems that only read wireframe or offset models. Although Simpsons rule can approximate the curved shape of a hull from a small number of stations, it has major limitations when it is faced with the sort of longitudinal discontinuities in the volume or waterplane commonly found in modern designs.

For those situations where only a lines plan or table of offsets exists, we are in the process of setting up a quick surface approximation method that will allow these to be used as input to Hydromax. We hope to have this available in the next major release of Hydromax and Maxsurf.