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| JosephH |
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  Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | So tonight I started making the 900 plus files i need to create all the flat stations. hope to have them done and the assys tomorrow night and ready for my weekend off to create all the stations and the parts this is the tedious part of drawing in 3D lol | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | Ok so today finished making the fwd station assy and did my curve intersections to the loft. Next I will work on the Mid Stations | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | Sooo today I got the midships files and assys made. I then extracted the shapes from the loft. like I said it is a very slow process as when done will have over 1000 part files. I am 2/3 of the way done. However I think I will take a short break from making part files and assys and see if I can do the interior shape of the frames. the contract says that the head of the floor is 13.5", and at the lower futtock the head is 12.75", 12.125" at the head of second futtock, 11.625" at head of 3rd futtock, 4th Futtock atm hard to read need to do some photo editing to get, and head of top timber is 5.5"  | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | Well got the midship frame done lol this will be slow taking a week or two to get every station finished | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | Ok So I got the mid frame station all fleshed out  | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | well graveyard shift has been keeping me sleeping most the day as I had no time to adjust my body. However I got the mid and fwd stations of my hull loft thickened and some inside waterlines set up. Next when I have time I will reloft the fwd section and take new stations that have the inner thicknesses for all. this is slow setting up the loft again but its 1/10th the time it would take to do each station individually and get them fair. | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | Ok so it has been a few days but in reality only abt 4 hrs work but I have the front half done and with a good interior for the frames. tonight is last night work for the week then have fri and sat off to work on the rear half. to give you an idea of the 1000+ part files, it takes 20 mins for solidworks to load my file to work on it as it has to convert them for large assy mode so my machine doesn't bog down. when the entire ship is finished I would guess have at min 10,000 part files to create the 3D model  | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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| Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 667 | So----is that the END? How do you obtain a sweep to connect the upper and lower sweeps on the previous page? I used to do 2D ship plans on ACAD and I know how laborious it is. Keith. | ||
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| JosephH |
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| Registered Member #4876 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2016, 03:37amPosts: 1442 | sorry got a lot family issues going on here so been loong time since i been able to get on. to connect the 2 sweeps its basically what they are calling a reconciling sweep. but for simple sake it is an arc tangent to both the upper and lower sweeps and then you just trim them | ||
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| donfarr |
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| Registered Member #2001 Joined: Fri Dec 23 2011, 09:51pmPosts: 1853 | Welcome BACK JOE, MISS$ED YOUR INPUT VERY GREATLY. Don | ||
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