Building a boat

mark_schneider

I am new to cad and am trying to build a boat, I copied a design off of the public documents and now am trying to slice the individual parts and lay them flat so I can figure out how much aluminum I need and make templates, or send the a file to a cnc plasma cutter. Do you have any tips?

philip_thomas

Hello Mark Schneider - international man of mystery and the tallest man in CAD/CAM!

Mark, yes - the KIRImoto app in the appstore does this

"Laser mode will intelligently slice a 3D model and layout the cross sections for export to DXF or SVG."

brucebartlett

What kind of boat?
Which public doc are you starting with?
Can you share your document?

If you are new to CAD it might be worth doing some of the Onshape stater courses to help you understand the basic concepts then applying that to your bigger project. 

mark_schneider

I started with a doc called jetboat made by Ryan Verhoest all I am worried about is the hull and the windshield, I could not figure out how to share the file. Thank you for the quick responses.

MBartlett21

mark_schneider said:
I could not figure out how to share the file.

@mark_schneider

Just copy the url in the address bar. Because you are a free user, it will be public already.

owen_sparks

Hi @mark_schneider and welcome.

A quick read of this would be appreciated:- https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9107/forum-post-checklist

There are loads of helpful folks who hang about here, but in the main you'll get much better answers to specific questions.  If we don't know what you know already and what you're stuck on it's hard to offer up anything meaningful.

All the best.

Cheers,

Owen S.

mark_schneider

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3572bb97f3b671de6adc4ac6/w/b36c68c620dbabd1b94a9259/e/70a7f8c7485d24956f670caa

brucebartlett

Ideally, you would want to use sheet metal to form flat patterns of the parts, but sheet metal only deals with flat folded or rolled parts, not free-form parts of which the hull is mainly made up of. Using some creative sheet metal work individual parts could be created but faces would have to be flat not formed.

You could also use the flat extract app to get dxf profiles of the faces, this is designed to pull profiles off free-form surfaces. 

mark_schneider

Ok so I attempted to use the flat extract app and it won' let me, I'm assuming it' because it' a semienclosed shape. Is there any way to fix this problem?