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Ship

Description

This tool loads example geometries.

Ship works over Ship entities, that must be created on top of provided geometry. Geometry must be a solid, or set of solids. The following criteria must be taken into account:

• All hull geometry must be provided (including symmetric bodies).
• Starboard geometry must be included at negatives y domain.
• Origin (0,0,0) point is the Midship section (Midpoint between after and forward perpendicular) and base line intersection.

Ship sign criteria

In order to help new users, Ship includes a geometries examples loader, with the following to choose from:

• Series 60 from Iowa University
• Wigley Canonical Ship
• Series 60 Catamaran
• Wigley Catamaran

Usage

1. There are several ways to invoke the command:
   • Press the Load an example ship geometry button.
   • Select the Ship design → Load‏‎ an example ship geometry option from the menu.
2. A task panel will display, prompting to choose one of the example ship geometries.
3. Select the example you want to load and press Accept.
4. Result: The tool loads a new document with the selected geometry.

Tutorials

• FreeCAD-Ship s60 tutorial
• FreeCAD-Ship s60 tutorial (II)

Create a new ship

Ship