hello people! this time im having difficulties with surfacing hull. my question is: what softwares are currently used for sailboat design? ive been using plenty but none give me the desired shape… if you look at some hull design for example from royal huisman’s they look PERFECTTT… ive been sending …

There are are many boat hulls designed in rhino. Here is an article royal Huisman and here are other Naval Architects and a few other finished boats of all sizes . The stem can be a challenge. Orca3d add some tools that make it easier specifically in that area. Also, allowing for the bow round and k…

[image] Rhino_Bulgaria: Things would be much easier and faster with a static light lines analysis, but I guess we have to wait for Rhino 7 to implement them… :wink: Hi, I just did a test with a custom environment based on the 3D checker sat to 2 in X size (Half a checker is a line) and .1 in …

It works in a different way. :slight_smile: For example, “Light lines” in VSR for Rhino 5 was extremely sensitive to changes and could help notice lack of continuity even with 0,01 mm movement of a control point.

OK, can you show an example and explain how they are lined up in the “world” ? BTW I use V7 for this, I don’t know if the environment I posted acts the same way in V6.

Your environment does not work in the same way in Rhino 6 evaluation as shown on your screenshot above. I don’t have Rhino 5 with the VSR plug-in to show the rainbow coloured “Light lines” that it has, but I do remember how great they performed when I was working with Rhino 5 about a decade ago. …

Thanks for the feedback! @scottd do you think there is anyway to let Rhino_Bulgaria test out V7? I think he could give you some much needed insight in tools to replace VSR. I’ll play around a bit tomorrow and see what I can come up with.

Note that the 1st video above with the coloured lines allowed to have a custom number of stripes, hence the change in their thickness. In my opinion, coloured lines are much more usable for evaluation the flow of a surface, because they let the modeler to follow a certain colour along the length of …

Its a 1-to-1 port from ICEM Surf. I’m not promoting to use zebras of any kind for continuity analysis, but using a numerical or deviation graph for this. Rhino 7 indeed offers a tool for that now. The problem with Zebras for c.a., it very often requires to have a high resolution render mesh to get …

From my experience I can tell that having a true mathematical G2 continuity is not always the best way to achieve smooth looking reflections on a series of adjacent surfaces. In many cases G1 or G1,5 (something less than a true G2) delivers a better flow and reflections. I have seen many videos wit…

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