Wei Shi's blog

Sailboat model (Rhino)

I made this sailboat model in Rhino as a practice. I did not find more pictures of the details, so this model is little bit rough. The most difficult part of model is the hull. Rhino is a very powerful and easy-to-use program for hull modelling, I think next step is to import the hull into Maxsurf to do some analysis... Well, analysis, still have lot to learn about this.

 



    

AutoCAD Assignment

Yesterday we did an AutoCAD assignment. We were asked to draw centerboard and rudder according to an existing plan in AutoCAD. Our drawing should include several different layers for lines, dim, text and we need to make new layout in paper space to display our drawing in right scale. 

The assignment included five stages: 

1.Sketch. We need to sketch the plan on paper, copy necessary information from the original plan. I think this is the most important part. The sketch will tell you what to draw. It provides basic information for the assignment.

2. Drawing in AutoCAD. Follow instructions of the assignment, create different layers, create drawing from the sketch.

3. Print out draft. 

4. Mark out. Check your draft with Chris, and to see if there is any mistakes. Mark them out, and then go back to your computer and fix them in AutoCAD.

5. Print the final drawing.

At 4 pm, we handed in our marked out draft and the final drawing to Chris.