Hello, I’m a high school welding instructor and our hallmark program at our school is our Marine Fab class where we’ve been building aluminum jet “scows” since the late 1980’s. The design is a proven workhorse for our environment. My goal this year is
to model our hull to be able to have it CNC cut, as an option. I’ve been using Rhino for the last 5 years doing much simpler 2D designs and simple 3D stuff like tanks or parts to be 3D printed. I’ll attach some pictures of our boats and a few where we are in the build process. These are all laid out by hand and hand cut, although I have been cutting the transoms and bulkheads out on our CNC plasma table.
Looking for a confirmation that this is indeed possible, and any tips or guidance anyone may have.
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Hi Winston, I am wondering why you couldn’t draw all your already proven boat of the pieces laid flat ? Then make those drawings into DXF. file format to put into your plasma cutting program.—Mark
Definitely doable, this is what I do for a living, designing boats in Rhino for welded aluminum construction. Nice to see it being taught in a high school.
