Yacht interior layout

[Gades]

Really nice Paul!
BTW, do you know how many hours it took you to get these results?

[Polarity]

I downloaded the eval of Rhino about 3 weeks ago. I would guess that to learn the software (I have never used anything similar but it has a good tutorial and excellent help), trace the hull lines (from a scan of the paper put in the background), loft the hull, extrude the interior off of the plan I had made, trim it all up, and then add some textures and different surfaces (I could not post her naked after all!) was probably 100-120 hours. I would think that I could do it again (without learning the software and the concepts - I had to learn what was meant by curve/solid/ortho/planar etc!) in 5-10 hours.

That of course excludes the time spent laying out and thinking about the interior plan.

All good fun! -I really like the software - and they did a very strange - but welcome thing, one of the support team dropped me an (ok standard I know) email to ask if I had any questions - and then when I did, they got back to me, had me send them a file and then they explained the problem. Considering I just have it on evaluation (25 saves- which is not a problem as I have not crashed it once!) that's great!

Also the software seems to be very memory efficient. I only have 64MB and a 700hz cpu - but not once was it ever slow.

The student licence is cheap but the full one is - alas- out of my league. www.rhino3d.com is the site.

Cheers

Paul

[Gades]

Originally posted by Polarity

All good fun! -I really like the software - and they did a very strange - but welcome thing, one of the support team dropped me an (ok standard I know) email to ask if I had any questions - and then when I did, they got back to me, had me send them a file and then they explained the problem. Considering I just have it on evaluation (25 saves- which is not a problem as I have not crashed it once!) that's great!
Cheers

Paul

I told you quite a few weeks ago that it'd be some time spending to learn any kind of software for this purpose, but that if you do enjoy modelling/designing that it'd be worth.
I'm glad you had fun.
Also, I think you've done quite a good job in such a short period of time. I've seen many guys studing Yacht & Powercraft Design who were unable to achive what you've done by yourself (and these guys have studied for three years, so it should be easy for them).

BTW, check your PM

[Polarity]

I wanted to post this up to show that you can really get carried away with Rhino and Flamingo ... Next it's the yacht with sunset - when I have finished the deck layout that is...