help with free!ship!!!

ive been screwing around with the program for hrs and still i havent figured it out. i am wanting to build a carolina custom sportfish is this the best lowcost software for a boat in that catagory.wicth is the most simple low cost cad.

thanks reefling

 

I'm not sure about simple, but Rhino 3D is by far the cheapest.

 

rhino demo has limited use and freeship comes as the name say's "free" ( or read whatever open source means )
as to screwing around with freeship, keep doing that, try things out on simple hulls and think of it as testing rather than screwing
takes more than a few hours but in half a day i do now get ressistance, hydro and more out of a -simple- test cat
not that i figered everything out yet but after a few days we should make progres

 

you oder it from the company or who would have it and how mush is rhino 3d

 

the thing i cant figuere out is how to make a finshed 3d figure on freeship i got the shaping of the hul down good but everything eles forget it.
whict program do you think is the most simple.

thanks sean

 

no simple 3d programs, but have a look at carlson hull design, these files can be imported into freeship if you like

 

ok thanks for that what do you think is the best for the money.

 

this is free and are actually good programs, best for the money?
fastship, maxsurf, rhino marine pack, cathia, dassault and more real expensive stuff i cant work with does come to mind
check the software poll's but keeping it good and relativly easy i'd say try carlson

 

free ship whats the price tag on it i think my problem with free ship is i do not got all the features because i am in the demo. who knows its fustrating.

 

there is no demo of freeship is the full version there is a profesional version on the works but is more oriented to calcualtions than modeling the way most of the users works is by using software like maxsurf, prosurf or freeship to name a few, to model and design the hulls and from there export to a CAD or a 3D nurbs program like rhino, you can use these program to do some 3D like superstructures or deckhouses, but is not so "friendly" becouse the purpose of the software is more specific, and like any other software is all about practice there is no such thing as "easy to use software" by these i mean that practice is required.

To start use Freeship to model the HULL and use any free 3D application like Moi3D, progesoft or any free 3D application like blender

if you would like to buy software then Freeship+Rhino is a good option
or TouchCAD

cheers

 

can some one please tell me how to fair a hull form in "free ship"? also what exactly is the application of 'control curve' when it comes to fairing?

 

Dig through the advertising popups at this site and a downloadable pdf manual will be found... http://freeship-plus.pisem.su/indexEN.html You will have quite a bit of trial by "re-do-it" have fun... most here seem to still use v2.6 - there is a manual for that too...