Help With Hull Design

Well what I had for the curves I inputted and they came out beautifully just like the drawings said they were fixed. i am just missing the 3 height measurements to complete the stations.

I will work on the Buttocks next see how they come out

 

Got the Buttock and Rabbet Lines brought in and like said besides the 3 missing dmensions I need to find everything is looking good. maybe a little fudge in the rabbet I still need to check the line drawings

Added Zip File with everything I have so far in case someone just wants to look at the ship its really a cool ship. if I can get the last bits of these curves figured out i will be ready to roll as dont have too much tweaking to do that I can see as the curves look nice and the Buttocks all hit the curves

http://www.proflooney.net/Steamer-Schooner-Wapama.zip

 

well i found small error lol when I was calculationg the station distances I missed a half distance so am having to remath the distances

 

Well last night and this morning I updated some dimensions I transposed incorrectly and a couple other things and updating the zip file in the previous post. I still haven't figured out the missing dimensions for the curve files yet.

 

Well after all day of messing around I got every station but the last 2 to work out. once I update the files with the corrections I will upload a fixed version

 

Ok so I got things all adjusted in my excel file and any changes and repacked it all up so now it is current as to what I have it as now

http://www.proflooney.net/Steamer-Schooner-Wapama.zip

 

so does anyone have any ideas on the last 2 staions? im not sure looking at the various drawings it almost looks like they make the skeg though I would rather try and do the hull and add the keel section after

 

Ok got a test loft going. looking good but for the transom. will add some buttock lines to my loft to help the shapes more.

 

Ok So now I decided to try working with the Buttocks. it makes it tricky as not all hit every station thus i need to do it in sections. once I get it though I can create more stations and wont need the Buttock Lines. this should give me a better hull shape when finished

 

Well I got all the image planes made and mated into the proper locations. I took the planes and did intersect curve to them from my loft and the front 90% of the ship turned out beautiful. I still need to figure out the transom area but will take a break for now while I make all my 3D stations. it is always nice to take a break when something is driving you nuts. who knows maybe someone else with tons more experience, while playing with cad will have it figured out while I work on the other stuff

 

well I got the basic middle station shape my problem is going to be finding an easy way yo get the rest of them and have a smooth transition between each without having the starved horse look. too bad the inner and outer portions werent the same shape but nooooo that would be too easy hehehe

 

You seem to be having a long conversation with yourself, Prof !

 

lol yea I find if I document it and write it out things pop in my head and i am able to figure things out. so far been doing good at figureing them out. but also in hopes someone sees something i may have done wrong and points it out as this is only like my 2nd or 3rd boat i been trying to figure out the other 2 i gave up on this one seems to be working out