Saturday, 19 January 2013

About CAD and CNC

I think the first milestone of the project has been achieved. I have redrawn the boats hull (frames, floor, stem and stern) in Autocad Inventor. I have then drawn the planks using the loft function. The plan was then to "unroll" the 3D surfaces resulting from the lofting procedure to obtain 2D flat shapes for subsequent CNC cutting (alongside the frames, floors, etc..).

Here's how the hull frames line up in Inventor:



  


I will now use a third CAD program,  AutoCAD to compose the 2D shapes and arrange them within the typical size of ply sheets. The objective is to efficiently nest the shapes to minimize costly marine ply waste.

   

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