Tim McMurdo wrote:
> stephen parkinson <ste### [at] zmemw16demoncouk> wrote:
> 
>>problem - i have plans for the objects including cross-sections at
>>positions with length.
>>
>>similar to the plans for a sail boat, profiling the ships hull,
>>
>>now i'm fairly sure, i can digitse the cross-sections giving me the
>>start of mesh.
> 
> 
> Steven,
> 
> I used Hamapatch to create the Brig's hull. I took the measurements off the
> plans & entered them as coordinates for the patches.
> 
> For the ships boats, I am trying a new method. I scanned the plans in and
> imported them into the background for Lightwave. I then build the frames
> for the boats right on top of the plans in a seperate layer.
> 
> Not sure that will help.
> 
> Tim
> 

ah, oh well - linux here, no windows is preferred environment
but i found something called engauge on sourceforge, which seems
likely to do what i want in terms of digitizing.

please tell you can vary the number of points on a particular 'frame'/
cross-section in a mesh. i can't see why not though.

mine's going to be looking remarkably cylindrical at each end and 
somewhat rounded in the middle.
once i figure the syntax :-)

stephen

rectangle in middle.

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