Freeship total ship weight?

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  1. Saqa
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    Cant find where to locate this in the program and manual. Anyone know?
     
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    Hi you find this under calculation menu by selecting Hydrostatic design, but for a correct output every different material need a proper layer with specific weight and thickness of material sheet used.
     
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    Here a one edited now but isn't correct different mat and thickness

    upload_2021-6-25_12-49-54.png
     
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    Problem is my results dialogue looks totally different. I have set layers with density and thickness and can see panel weight but cannot seem to find totals anywhere other than manually adding up the layers

    [​IMG]hydstat
     
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    But you can't see anything below, if you scroll down the windows text report?
     
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    Anyway the displacement in tonnes is the effective weight
     
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    It's pretty much the same all the way down. There is nothing that resembles your screenshot. Could it be that we are using different versions? I am on Freeship Plus 3.4

    Is there a setting to change that will export like yours?

    Thank you for being the only one out of 1500 odd members to try to help. Might have something to do with the fact that it's rare to see much more than a dozen members only actually coming back to the forum

    At the risk of a couple from that dozen saying that I am dismissing your input, I think the displacement in freeship is the result of the design draft that is user set and not the actually weight of the hull
     
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    Hi I've the same version of FreeShip, but you try this different versions downloadable here ( markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus ) but has few issues,
    If you have these problem may was due also to problem on your model and if can share it i can try too checkout if I find the problem.
    About the lacks of help from the whole users, times is changed here many older users are not more involved, many is retired, and the social networks is part of this changes.
    Try with this file attached below if your FreeShip works with it the problem is related to your model.
     

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    Yes for the displacement you are right is gave by the setting but is what you have to reach with all components and crew and is at the end the ideal boat weight.
     
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    Hi, sorry to get back to you late. This is my file. I have set each layer density and thickness. I am using Carlson Hull for the drawing and nesting. Then I am importing into freeship only to get some values and view with skin rendering. In Freeship, only interested in hull weight, part weight, volume and displacement information

    Thanks and regards
    Randy
     

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    Hi, after while, I figure out the problem, and it's related to not proper file preparation, in fact you have also to complete all sections by adding waterline, and other if you desire but most important is waterline intersection with hull.

    upload_2021-6-28_11-6-20.png
     

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    Thank you Pa for figuring that out, much appreciated. I have only played around a little bit with drawing up hulls and trying to learn as I go just for hobby

    How did you get the numbers to put in for the waterline intersections?
     
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    You are welcome, for the waterline interval I used the automatic procedure, I chose a low value because, the boat has a very low elevation and draft.
    These values can be automatically generated by Freeship when you use the function, just select +N and a section number with a constant distance will be entered.
    upload_2021-6-29_10-35-3.png
    I saw that you have entered the stations by hand, but you can also generate them automatically, with regular intervals if you do not have different needs.
    Another tip if you want to have correct values related to your model with the added weights.
    you can also select move the model to the baseline, this will automatically adjust the draft value and you will get an estimate of the actual waterline with that weight.

    upload_2021-6-29_10-36-4.png

    If you use this function you will also get a correct estimate, you can also use dummy elements to simulate the weight of people, but it requires additional work, but it can give acceptable results and better estimates but you have to perform the hydrostatic calculation two times (Need restart calculation "Design hydrostatics" for model displacement balance...)
    Below with the boat moved to the base line but that change the draft from .3048 to 0.15 because is too light the hull.
    upload_2021-6-29_10-48-18.png
    upload_2021-6-29_10-45-18.png

    That's all I know, greetings and have fun.
     

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    Pa, thank you again for taking the time and making the effort to teach me those steps and functions. I really appreciate it, you are a gentleman. I should be able to repeat that in the future

    Regarding ship weight. It's an inflatable with 2mm Hypalon as the material, and that's only the outer skin. I estimate under 1600lb displacement fitted with all the hardware, fuel and people

    I have to learn how to draw in freeship, so I can add foils and fins and things and find their weights and such. Thanks again
     
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