Ship LoadExample
Ship Load |
Menu location |
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Ship design → Load an example ship geometry |
Workbenches |
Ship |
Default shortcut |
None |
Introduced in version |
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See also |
None |
Description
Ship works over Ship entities, that must be created on top of provided geometry. Geometry must be a solid, or set of solids, following criteria must be taken into account:
- All hull geometry must be provided (including symmetric bodies).
- Starboard geometry must be included at negatives y domain.
- Origin (0,0,0) point is the Midship section (Midpoint between after and forward perpendicular) and base line intersection.
Ship sign criteria
Usage
In order to help new users, Ship includes a geometries examples loader, with the following to choose from:
- Series 60 from Iowa University
- Wigley Canonical Ship
- Series 60 Catamaran
- Wigley Catamaran
- Invoke the Ship Geometries Example Loader by either
- A task dialog will display, prompting to choose one of the example ship geometries.
- Select Series 60 from Iowa University and press Accept
- Result: Tool loads new document with the s60_IowaUniversity geometry.
Warning, before editing anything! You are now working with the original example file. To preserve the original unedited example, you must first save it as a new file before editing anything.
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