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Re: S&G: Plate development
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 12/7/2016, 7:45 am
In Response To: Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC* (Hubert Schreier)

I'm glad the idea is helping. I played around with my model, making a bit of a mess of it. I found it to be really touchy and unstable as far as keeping the design reasonable and kayak-like. Major moves of one control point could force unexpected moves of another, but as long as I kept the column lines co-planar with adjacent columns, I had what looked to be pretty reasonable panel forms.

It would be interesting to have an interactive interface that constrained the controls to maintain them in a co-planar state with adjacent columns. With one control in the column placed, the other can only move along a line defined by the intersection of two planes, which would only allow you to adjust the distance between the two edges. If you wanted to move a point in 3D space it would have to adjust the other point in 3D space. And I suppose the keel/center line controls would need be constrained to stay on the centerline plane, but it would still allow a lot of freedom for design. It would be helpful during design to see moving one point immediately effects the other.

I suspect it is possible to create some very nice designs while keeping to this principle, the trick is coming up with a practical way to use it for real boat design.

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
Re: S&G: Plate development
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
Re: S&G: Plate development
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
Re: S&G: Plate development
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
Re: S&G: Plate development
Mike Bielski -- 12/6/2016, 1:09 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 3:07 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Mike Bielski -- 12/6/2016, 4:35 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
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
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/6/2016, 7:29 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development
Hubert Schreier -- 12/6/2016, 8:26 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
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
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/7/2016, 10:21 am
Re: S&G: Plate development
upchurchmr -- 12/7/2016, 12:43 pm
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
Hubert Schreier -- 12/13/2016, 4:00 am
Re: S&G: Plate development *PIC*
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