Frame of Reference Object

Property

Type

Description

AftPerp

Double

Read Only. Get the Aft Perpendicular Location

Amidships

Double

Read Only. Get the Midships Location

Baseline

Double

Read Only. Get the Baseline Location

DatumWL

Double

Read Only. Get the Datum Waterline Location

FwdPerp

Double

Read Only. Get the Forward Perpendicular Location

 

The FrameOfReference object is used to get the locations of the Fore and Aft perpendiculars, Midships, Baseline and the Design Waterline.

 

See Also:

     Frame of Reference on page 21

Frame of Reference Example

This information could be very useful if you were trying to find the LCB as a proportion of the LWL, aft of the Forward Perpendicular (as used by the parametric transformation method)

Sub FindLCBPercent()

 

    Dim msDesign As Maxsurf.Design

    Set msDesign = msApp.Design

   

    Dim AftPerp As Double

    Dim FwdPerp As Double

    Dim LCB As Double

   

    msDesign.Hydrostatics.Calculate

   

    AftPerp = msDesign.FrameOfReference.AftPerp

    FwdPerp = msDesign.FrameOfReference.FwdPerp

    LCB = msDesign.Hydrostatics.LCB

   

    LCB_percent = (LCB - FwdPerp) / (AftPerp - FwdPerp)

   

    MsgBox "LCB from fwd perp " & LCB_percent

 

End Sub