Maxsurf to Freeship

Hehehe.... "catastrophically great number of control points"... I was thinking "debilitating", hehehee...

I exported FROM Free!Ship my model as dxf. Imported into PolyCAD. Saved as PolyCAD. Re-imported into Free!Ship. Ended up with around 1,549 leak points. Tha's not just the above-waterline control points, but the hull as well. But, it depends on the exact changes one makes to the surfaces or curves, too, I think, to get it to some manageable number.

I love the CAD-like approach to hull design in PolyCAD, but thoroughly enjoy the various reports of Hydronship. In Free!Ship, my eye-hand use of the control curves/porcupines is not fine enough, and my exported dxf surfaces have undulations that sometimes won't thicken properly to 16mm, but will to 1mm or 6mm. In PolyCAD, I can manually enhance my curves to be much easier on the ACIS kernel in Punch! ViaCAD (although it would be nicer if ACIS could figure out how to pre-fair lines and ask the user to allow it for the sake of making a surface thickenable to the amount the user needs/wants), and that makes PolyCAD a new star for my took chest.

 

Hi GavinM.

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