Ship Geometries Examples/en

Introduction
Ship works over Ship entities, that must be created on top of provided geometry. Geometry must be a solid, or set of solids, 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

Loading Series 60 geometry
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

Ship Geometries Examples loader icon

Executing the tool (Ship design/Load an example ship geometry) a task dialogue will shown. Select Series 60 from Iowa University and press Accept. Tool loads new document with s60_IowaUniversity geometry.

Tutorials

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