Hey, Most Naval Architecture faculties have professors that research seakeeping and develop software tools. Professors Troesch and Beck at the...
neutral axis Unless stated otherwise you should assume that the moment of intertia or moment of area (in this case) is calculated about the...
Can you tell us more about what you have in mind?
Hey, I don't have any experience with that particular program, but any software that uses nurbs these days likely has some decent fairing...
Hey, SNAME's recent two volume edition of Ship Design and Construction by Lamb has a good chapter on large passenger catamarans (linesplans and...
Could you post it for us?
hydrostatics Hi, I converted your dxf file into surfaces and did some very preliminary hydrostatics calculations that include the displacement...
Hi folks, Hmm... thank you very much for trying it... I exported an iges file from maxsurf and then re-imported it and it appeared to work....
Hello all, I'm trying to import an iges surface into Maxsurf from Rhino. I started with a simple surface of a hull but trimmed it and added...
PCSail There's a free and populat excel spreadsheet here at: http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=351 Might wanna give it a...
more stuff hey, Here are some more things you might be interested in (attached) -Dave
good references with bodyplan just found a good document with lines: http://www.skibstekniskselskab.dk/download/E2005_ice_HSVA.pdf
finding a book & actual lines Hmm... I'd suggest checking at a library... Preferably a university library at a school that offers naval...
example of icebreaker Here's a hullform that's considered pretty successful, the Candian coast guard's Terry Fox...
ship design and construction Hi, For ice breaking lines / hull form ideas I'd suggest looking at ship design and construction, the new two...
ask for help, not answer... Hey, I think you might get a better response if you ask for help rather than asking for the answer outright......
reverse sheer -> tanzer 22 I think one of the best examples of this is the tanzer 22... Not my favorite look, but reverse sheer really adds...
the highest efficiency you should expect from a prop is 70% so a good rule of thumb is to design for 50% which includes a margin and 85% mcr......
I think you have to rotate the model in rhino first... if I recall correctly the top view should actually look like the front view (section,...
Hi folks, I've got a friend who's in the market for a new boat... a 25-28' cuddy which will have a fairly large i/o... some dealers are trying...