Which program is used now days to create a ships hull lines plan? In the old days it was done on the floor or board drafting.
If I have a unique curved bow, which software is used to create the lines plan.
I have spent some time over the last few days attempting to create a boat hull by lofting sections along a line representing the center line of the hull, but I'm not having much luck. The shape that is created appears to be rotated some weird way, and I just can't seem to get a handle on what is going on. The section splines were created in the Front view, the path was created in the Top view. The section shapes were then placed in the Left view to correspond to their location along the hull.
My question is this: where can I find a tutorial that deals with boat hulls and lofting specifically, or failing that.
I'm uploading the .dwg and .txt files. I'm trying to get volume calcs cut and fill between two surfaces and when I compare the data between AGTEK's Highway 3D there is different results. I looked into it to find these random line appearing in Autocad making what seems to be the problem. Where are these coming from and how do I fix? Also, if you could anwser how can I insert a sectional following the 12'-23' offsets and dropping 1.16' down and adding it to my design surface. I want to make a big box there added to design surface.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm a beginner/intermediate level 3ds max user and I've recently starting to model what I love the most - sci-fi stuff, more specifically, space ships. So, I've been browsing the net looking for models done..Now, there's one very specific question in mind: does a ship (say, a very creative and complex concept) has to be one single object, or can it be a group of linked objects? Notice that I have in mind game development. URL....
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've looked at adding spaces to a plan that is simply lines and arcs... no intellegent objects.
It could get somewhat messy doing Generate Spaces... if the doors and swings are frozen the bounding objects don't get found... but if the doors and swings are on... the spaces go in fairly well... but then the door swing is used as a boundardy.
I have a low pressure sewer system that runs along a road side but is not always parallel to the road. I'm using hte centerline of the road for my alignment. What I need to do is have a profile of the existing ground above the centerline of the pressure pipes show in the plan/profile sheets. I do not need a profile of the roadway.
I'm currently using feature lines to accomplish this and that works fine in the main drawing, however, the profiles I create there don't transfer to the plan/profile sheets when I create them. The only way I have found so far to get thoe profiles to show in the plan/profile sheets is to create the feature lines in the plan/profile drawing and project those lines to my profile view. This is a fairly large system so I will have numerous plan/profile sheets. Creating the feature lines and profiles in the individual sheets is fairly time consuming.
I'm currently using Civil 3D 2012. I realize that with the addition of pressure pipe networks in 2013 might very well give me the tools I need but I'm at a point in this project, and our office, where switching to 2013 isn't really an option yet. However, if that is my answer then I will have to consider that.
hi all ! Im contributing in a project called infinity the quest for earth http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/ And since its a space game Im trying to get hull textures/tutorials.
Is there any good resources for that? I have looked but there is nothing detailed or good enough.
Thanks!
I have to build a convex hull around some spheres (please see attachment) - and I am not sure how to start .
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View 18 Replies View RelatedIm trying to make a 3d model of a site in AutoCAD and it seems lofting between some contours is impossible, this is driving me insane, first it told me there was a U and V derivative problem so i loft the surfaces that i could but now there is a gap where it refuses to loft and i cannot create a surface in that gap using network or blend or pach.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have to do a lot of lofting to create 3D shapes. The more the 2D sections are complicated, the more times takes for AutoCad to find a solution (even in a powerful computer). Beside that, I use Guide splines to create the exact shape I want. For this I have to wait two times, first Autocad find its own solution, then the solution with my Guides. Is there a way to make AutoCad loft by default with Guides, such that it doesn't ask for Guides after the initial loft, but immediately at the beginning.
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I'm trying to loft a base for a light fixture. It's narrowest at the top and bottom, and its widest point is in the middle. classic design.
Can I upload a pdf? I assume if it's available to everyone via a search engine, wouldn't it be ok to upload it? Any thoughts?
I digress. I'm trying to look at the circles from the side, so they form horizontal lines. I thought they'd be easier to offset a distance to.
I tried changing my views around to achieve that effect, but to no avail. UCS is World view. Or View.
One of the images in the .pdf, is of the appearance I'm after in a front view. So that way, I could do an offset distance of one inch, but as things stand now, that wouldn't work either.
It wouldn't work in this view projection, I think was what the wording was; or close to it.
The only view I was able to do any offsets in was the Top view IIRC, but that just gave me a bunch of concentric circles with no height. At least they were offset.
I want to loft the surface, made of polylines.The problem is that, when I select all the splines, and then do Draw-> Modeling -> Loft then I chose the "Cross-section only", this what kind of message I get in command box:
The selected entities are not valid.
Here the .dwg file with the mentioned splines in it:
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Basically we are trying to make a 3D plate (in this case a 2" thick piece of steel) and have a 3D hollow shape inside. Its split into Top and bottom, as shown as the below picture.
top View (plate 1).jpg
I have tried the loft command (which I just learned off within the past hour or so) and it indeed works. But I wish to use its as the opposite, where the middle is hollow and the rest is a solid object.
Side View (plate 1).jpg
I have tried the loft command (which I just learned off within the past hour or so) and it indeed works. But for the life of me does not know how to get it as one big object with the middle shape hollow. Am i missing a step or is it another command completely?
Also, once the object has been created, I want to split the object on its X axis mulitple times, almost like an exploded view. Each split will have its own set of top and bottom orifices which will represent multiple plates.
Is there a way to do that? Also is there a way to gain and separate the top and bottoms of these newly split plates?
Here is the drawing file as well to work on -> 3D-MK1.dwg
In previous autocad version that supported Lofting, i was always able to create a solid loft.
With 2013 the loft command seems to divide its abilities depending on what type of profiles are selected.
When selecting a closed polyline profile, loft produces a solid. Works fine.
When selecting a region or solid face loft produces only a surface.
The work i am trying to do at the moment involves irregular sections and/created from existing solids.
I could trace the profile and make a polyline, but each profile contains an ellipse, and you cant trace an ellipse.
Where i used to be able to select the ends of the existing solids and create a solid loft,
I now have to produce a section twice (gives you a region), loft the regions, convert the regions to surfaces (because the produced surface doesn't have and faces), union the surface and then convert to solids
Instead of 1 command there are now 6.
I tried turning of the assiciativity (surfaceassociativity 0) hoping that it had some sort of influence but to no avail.
There was no issue with 2010 and 2012 and i have just installed all 2013 products.
I have a lot of work to do and have to produce 3dsolids.
I am working on creating a male mold for a canoe. I first designed the cross sections for the canoe and then began converting them to the mold cross sections. When I try to loft the cross sections I have converted so far, they all loft as I intended until I get to the rear of the canoe (sketch 8). The issue typically arises in gunwale section (the part that appears to be a notch in the sides). Everytime I loft, one of the gunwales splits/twists in an undesired fashion (in the image below the right gunwale is incorrectly twisted).
I do not understand why this is happening for a few reason:
1. The canoe cross sections lofted as planned, and I only added simple boxy shapes to those cross sections.
2. Each cross section is symmetrical (or at least from what I can tell they are).
3. The cross sections that are lofting improperly all have the same number of segments and are in very similar shapes.
I have attached the file of the cross sections and another file of an improper loft.
Coming from Sketch up to real big boy tools. I watched the tutorial videos and tried poking around a bit for this specific answer but came up a bit short.
What I'm trying to do is loft a face to a point. Easy enough. I've got my point established on an offset work plane, and I can just loft to that, however, I get nothing but straight lines. (First attachment)
An example of the ideal outcome in SketchUp is the second attachment.
I'm having the most difficulty trying to draw the curves along which I want the face to be lofted because, even as I sketch along my 2D plane, I can't snap the endpoints of my arcs to the endpoints of the face (or the point to which they'll all connect).
If you can create a solid by lofting between two section, in this case they are 3d polylines, along a given path. The path is at the top of the sections. Using the loft command I have to key in the PO ( point ) option several times to get the path option to show then when I select the path it gets treated as another section. See attached.
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Here is an image it should be following the line i made
I have 3 scientific waveforms, made into splines , from X,Y and Z data. Basically 3 long wiggly lines.
I wish to visualise the data by modulating a spheres surface in 3 dimensions so that the X data creates wave on the surface of the sphere running along the x-axis , the Y data along the Y axis and the Z along the Z axis. All the data (splines) will interfere and modulate with each other across the surface.
I have spent a couple of days looking at nurbs and lofting but cannot even get close to this. They all only allow splines in 2 dimensions to interact and nurbs cannot cope with the data volume anyway.
ps i can obviously extrude the 1d data or lathe the data but each only makes 1 or 2d surface interaction. The attatched pic is each one of the data splines made into a sphere using a 180 bend and lathe. This isnt exactly how id ideally have it. I need all three joined into one shape.
It's new to me the loft compound object, and I found it a little cumbersome.Provided the shape objects have the same amount of vertices, the loft should do its business, is it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedBasically I am following a tutorial which says that when you create a loft from a path and two shapes, the loft should still be linked to the shapes, so if you resize one, the loft would change, but that is not happening for me. I am using 2014 so I don't know if this feature has changed, or if you access it in a different way?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to make a simple race track for my uni project. I've created the track's path using lines and arcs, and attached them all together into one single path.
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I'm then trying to extrude the track geometry (a simple rectangle) along the path of the track (see the bottom image).
I'm following a tutorial that says to select the line, then under compound objects select loft. Then under creation method I should chose "Get shape" and select the rectangle, however I'm unable to click on "get shape", the option is greyed out.
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Re: 2D circle jagged lines, 3D model hidden jagged lines. How do i get smooth lines?
How do i get rid of jagged lines?
Circles and diagonal lines look rubbish when i am in hidden view which i use for simple 3d black / white (i think this is the best way?).
I have tried:
- viewres (1000, 5000, 10000, 20000 sightly better)
- regen
See examples.
square with jagged lines.fw.pngcircle with fuzzy outline.fw.png
how do I make straight lines? Horizontal Lines? Vertical Lines? Curvs? I read many tutorials and i am afraid that I am doing it the wrong way, my way is to drag a guide to where i want the line to be at and trace the guide with the brush tool...
View 2 Replies View Relatedwhat is this file that keeps showing up in my folders with my dwg files?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have been looking at posts on automating pdf creation but have seen a lot with programming / VB involved but would like to avoid that if possible. I have also seen one's on batch processing but would like to do them as needed / completed.
I am trying to somewhat automate the pdf creation process. Having them save to a specific spot / folder and having them 'plot' the same view to the pdf would be very beneficial that way we don't have to select print, print to pdf, print this view with these details, save to this folder location. etc.