Hull Shape Assistant (HSA) is a new Rhino plugin providing shape modeling assistance tools focused on design, fairing, and reverse engineering.
HSA’s geometry is composed of parts that may be surfaces or a set of curves prepared for lofting a surface. HSA also accepts as an input already existing polysurfaces in one part, with no specific option to modify it.
Functionality:
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Automatic joining and trimming of parts, according to defined limiting top, transom and skeg shape
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Automatic generation of flat side and flat bottom
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Real-time information regarding distance from reference geometry, which can be points clouds, curves, meshes, surfaces or polysurfaces
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Real-time generation of sections, buttocks and waterlines
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Simplified control over surface curvature and zebra analysis
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Real-time information regarding ship hydrostatic parameters – HSA will try to fill small gaps in imperfect shape if thev input is non-watertight
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Simple clipping over length
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Simple, compact panel for control of plugin functionality
Currently, HSA supports only symmetric hull shapes.
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Posted May 19, 2022 by Carlos Perez on Rhino News, etc.