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Re: S&G: Plate development
By:Hubert Schreier
Date: 12/6/2016, 12:34 am
In Response To: Re: S&G: Plate development (Alex Ferguson)

Absolutely no offence taken. I should have put some :-) :-) after it.
As far as women and technology goes I had a mother who would have pliers, side cutters, possibly a multimeter in her handbag. Who was an architectural draft(wo)man by trade and did electrical appliance servicing. Who taught me how to assemble Meccano properly. It is possibly the younger ones who are a problem - my daughter taking her lathe and her welder and going off 500 miles away leaving without such tools..... Life is tough...

Sounds like a good reason to buy new tools!

What software is being used for this dive into computerization of drafting? (Note the very slight mention of "drafting" above).

This whole thing started a long time ago when I built a Tom Yost SOF and wanted to move a cross section. I wrote some code to fit the offsets with Bezier curves to interpolate the new cross section, then some code for hydrostatic and stability analysis and recently for finding ruling lines and unrolling panels. I have been developing a parametric kayak generator program for hard chine designs where you can specify length, beam, depths at bow, stern, center and chines, deadrise, flare, rocker etc. and it spits out a kayak hull. So, the "software" is a bunch of little unix programs that I use with emacs (sometimes vi), gnuplot and inkscape (for graphically editing Bezier curves). It is a fun hobby project that I have worked on every now and then over a few years.

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/3/2016, 4:10 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
upchurchmr -- 12/3/2016, 4:38 pm
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Hubert Schreier -- 12/3/2016, 4:55 pm
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upchurchmr -- 12/3/2016, 5:45 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/3/2016, 10:14 pm
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Hubert Schreier -- 12/4/2016, 12:57 am
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upchurchmr -- 12/4/2016, 3:37 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/4/2016, 11:45 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Alex Ferguson -- 12/5/2016, 3:38 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
upchurchmr -- 12/5/2016, 5:42 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/5/2016, 9:23 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Alex Ferguson -- 12/5/2016, 9:55 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 12:34 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/4/2016, 8:20 am
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Hubert Schreier -- 12/5/2016, 10:23 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 12/6/2016, 12:56 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 1:03 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/6/2016, 1:09 am
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Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 1:20 am
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Mike Bielski -- 12/6/2016, 1:09 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 3:07 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 12/6/2016, 4:35 pm
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upchurchmr -- 12/6/2016, 7:14 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 8:45 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/6/2016, 8:49 am
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Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 10:04 am
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upchurchmr -- 12/6/2016, 11:04 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/6/2016, 7:29 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 8:26 pm
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Hubert Schreier -- 12/7/2016, 12:27 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/7/2016, 7:45 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
upchurchmr -- 12/7/2016, 9:29 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/7/2016, 10:21 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
upchurchmr -- 12/7/2016, 12:43 pm
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Hubert Schreier -- 12/13/2016, 4:00 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/13/2016, 6:54 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/13/2016, 8:03 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/13/2016, 11:10 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/30/2016, 6:08 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/14/2016, 6:55 am
Delftship
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/14/2016, 8:50 am
Re: Delftship *PIC*
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/14/2016, 11:57 am
Re: Delftship
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 1/25/2017, 9:41 am
Re: Delftship
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 1/25/2017, 6:19 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/30/2016, 5:53 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 12/31/2016, 8:57 am
Find "MultiConic Dev of Hull Surfaces"
mick allen -- 12/5/2016, 8:16 pm
Re: Find "MultiConic Dev of Hull Surfaces"
Hubert Schreier -- 12/5/2016, 11:07 pm