Solidworks2000 design methods

[AndyRed3D]

Originally Posted by seaarkmarine

Hey Hans,

When I last imported a 3D Autocad drawing into Solidworks, my zero thickness Hull surfaces, all become 2D flat surfaces and the frames remained 3d objects. Will the same happen if I import a Rhino 3D hull surfaces into SolidWorks? I thought any hull plating in Solidworks has to have thickness otherwise, its a surface that can't be used to calculate weight.

Westley
seaarkwestley@yahoo.com

If you go to Tools > Mass Properties I think you can calculate the surface area of an object (in an assembly). If you need to have plate thickness to calculate the weight, then you could "Thicken" the iges surface you import from Rhino.

Or if the hull surface is defined as the outside of the hull (not the inside of the plate) then you could create the hull surfaces as a closed solid body (knit surfaces first) and then do "Shell" to hollow it out to the correct plate thickness. You could then create the frames or whatever from the inside surface.

[seaarkmarine]

Thanks Andy,

I will stick with it (SW). But my technical support lacks interest. The guy who originally trained us, left the company shortly thereafter. I will look at that site you recommend (www.djaweb.com.uk).

Maybe sometime you can let me take a look at some of your work?

Thanks again for the positive note, Westley