Motor yacht design

This 13 minute video shows you a range of tools used in the design of a luxury motor yacht featuring a swimming platform, stairs, flared bow, skeg and superstructure.

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Techniques used:

In this video you'll see the following techniques being used:

Starting from scratch, Inserting a surface, Adding control points, Numerical control point manipulation, Duplicate surfaces, Surface stiffness, Non-tangent bonding, Align to vector with constraint, Compact control points, Surface modelling (Edges first, then internal control points), Curvature displays, Rendered curvature, Trimming, Creating assemblies, Surface colours, Lock/Unlocking the design.

Sample model

Maxsurf Sample Design	MotorYacht2_Pro.msd
Hydromax Sample Design	MotorYacht2_Pro.hmd
Workshop Sample Design	MotorYacht2_Pro.wsd
Hullspeed wave surface calculated at 10 knots	MotorYacht2_Pro_HSfreesurface10kts.txt

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