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What is lofting of ship?
Lofting is the transfer of a Lines Plan to a Full-Sized Plan. This helps to assure that the boat will be accurate in its layout and pleasing in appearance. There are many methods to loft a set of plans. Generally, boat building books have a detailed description of the lofting process, beyond the scope of this article.
What are offsets in boat building?
A table of offsets is the key to building a boat. It gives measurements to points which, when connected in a smooth curve, represent the shape of the boat at all the stations and in all three views.
What is loft in CAD?
Loft is a method to create complicated smooth 3D shapes in CAD and other 3D modeling software. Planar cross-sections of the desired shape are defined at chosen locations. Algorithms find a smooth 3D shape that fit these cross-sections.
What is a slack bilge?
A boat with a lot of deadrise can be said to have “slack bilges.” A boat with little deadrise will most probably have a “firm” turn to the bilge. Boats with slack bilges generally have less initial stability than boats with a firm turn to the bilge. But having slack bilges can give a boat better ultimate stability.
What are plans for a ship called?
The General Arrangement plan, as the name suggests, contains the layout of the ship in general. It will show the ship form, outlined in profile as well as in plan. The plan for all decks (forecastle, accommodation block, & 1st Platform Deck, 2nd Platform Deck etc.
What is the use of loft?
In U.S usage, a loft is an upper room or storey in a building, mainly in a barn, directly under the roof, used for storage (as in most private houses).
What is a loft object?
‘Lofting is an important method for 3D object creation. You create shape objects to serve as a path and any number of cross-sectional shapes. The path becomes the framework that holds the cross-sections forming your loft object. The term lofting comes from early shipbuilding.
What does Blue water boat mean?
A blue water sailboat is a boat that is designed for extended voyages in open water. The opposite are inland production boats.
What is a boat bustle?
A bustle stern refers to any kind of stern (transom, elliptical, etc.) that has a large “bustle” or blister at the waterline below the stern to prevent the stern from “squatting” when getting underway. It only appears in sailboats, never in power-driven craft.