Interpreting Lines Plans - 2D Drawings to 3D Ships 

Hopefully I was able to explain all this in a reasonably easy to understand way :D enjoy the video and let me know what you think!

Man, this is exciting. Always had an interest in naval architecture from an early age. Didn't have much of an interest in WWI/WWII ships until I started playing Naval Ops Commander in Junior High. Good stuff, mate.

Amazing video. Thanks for making it easy.

It helped me a lot, I was trying to understand a dredger plan. Thank you

Thank you so much. Your explanation is one of the best I have come across. Precise and exceedingly clear. I hope you can do a video for the layman how the design waterline of a vessel is derived. I find it hard to get around understanding how the architect achieve this with just a boat plan. I suspect it is a mathematical solution from understanding the expected total weight of the material used for construction and the volume thereof that will be displacing water, and working backwards from the area of a waterline section that has an area that correspond to such a volume. That is just a guess. And a model subsequently put on water could, I think, cross-check and confirm the design waterline that has been calculated. I am a layman trying to think what the process involves. I could very well be wrong.

That's a lot of work wg goes through, too bad the corporates don't let the devs do what they want to and only demand money farming events.

awesome video !

What an intuitive way of demostration, thank you iChase. BTW you must be very good at Math and Physics right? That's the fundation of mastering Naval architecture.

Lovely exlpanation, always wanted to sculpt a ship

My brain hurts. Seriously though, a bloody interesting vid. Cheers and thank you Mate.

Thanks! Really clear! I’m taking an intro to naval architecture class, and the professor and book wasn’t making it click for me.

Hey Chase, im in a pretty similar spot as you we're as i figured from the comments. Im very interesting in naval architecture, but id sucked absolute mooseballs in maths back in school. I avoided it like playing the objective in a shimakaze because i just couldn't apply it anywhere. Long story short, i wanted to ask you how long it took you to understand maths and if you'd say it's doable. I seriously have no idea. Part of me says it is and part of me says it isn't. Anyways, i really enjoyed this video and i would love to see you continue making naval arch content. It's very hard to find decent videos about it on RU-vid and i really like your way to explain stuff. This video for example did help me quite a lot to understand line drawings. I've read about them before in some books about Shipbuilding, but even then i could learn something here. So yeah, id encourage you to keep it up and don't be let down by less views than usual. Naval Arch is kinda a niche topic, but a really interesting one nonetheless. Something id personally love to see is perhaps a guide on how and what you learned in maths before studying. For me personally, i just don't know where to start with it.

Thanks ,i need a more detail in naval architecture lecture

can you make a step by step making that lines plan please .

Honestly as a 3d Artist this is create :)

This used to be all done by hand on a lofting floor. iChase, what 3D program do you use? Im guessing its some kind of NURBS program

Hi, I have a 3d. Document with all the cures. you mentioned but when I loft the body plan I then have a good result but I'm slightly off the water lines and buttock. I know it's possible to fair a boat on orca3d but I don't have access to it and it doesn't allow me to work from my favorites platforms. Do you have any tips or maybe some documentation on how to do it properly from from any platform (fusion/onshape/solidworks). ? Thankfully

Question, in shorting the word waterline 1 in design ,does it always (WL. 1 ) or can it be also (1 WL.)?

Great work man , how can i learn designing this thing with you ?

Do you have any videos on how to do it properly on the Rhino Software? I mean Lines to 3d in Rhino.

I like this vedio a lot the way you are explaining everything because not all of us are god's some of us a still mere mortals

iChase doing 3D modeling now? I did surface and solid modeling--mainly Rhino and SolidWorks respectively--for many years professionally before I started play WoWS in my spare time.

Explain a body plan workout we have to do initially.

The point is with commands u make the surfaces. I've trying to create a tug-boat which has a unique hull.I have made all the frames from bodyplan, locate all the buttocks and waterlines. When I draw the surfaces with network of curves or s2 rails ... I see the zebra and the surfaces arent good

WL 4 in that example diagram is known very technically as the ohboyyourefucked waterline since your entire stern is underwater. In all seriousness though, what does that one indicate? It seems strange to have a waterline that goes above the top of the hull. Also, this sort of content is really cool to see. I love learning about this stuff!

can you just share us to sketch photos

Hello, I am doing my final year campus project on ship modelling, I need to come up with a model design from line drawing to 3-D printing ( not necessarily fabricate it) kindly guide me.

I think u can directly buil a boat using rhino without linesplan

Hey, good stuff!! Any specific free software tailored for this?

I think I understand lol :D

Please make vidio process curve to 3d hull sir Thank you

since I started playing I wondered why wg doesn't add patrol boats or schnellboots in the game. They tried it during Dunkirk event but then they just scraped the idea =(

So, i am 6:35 into the Video and Now I am waiting For the inevitable transition to WG bullshit designs in the Game 😂😅 Damn I really hoped there would be dunk in wg like with the Video about the speed coefficient

Hi is that autoCad software you're using?

what software is it?

Where is the best way to find line plans of certain ships? I want to build some ww2 ships in minecraft lol

Hey chase, come join me in legends. It seems like war gaming is a little bit better here.

What software is this?

YT narrator should repeat drawing class from Year 1 and thru to College grad. A lot of clarification is missing. "Profile" view shown is presented and known hence as the Front Elevation (only for purposes of subject treatment). Side view is called Side Elevation, otherwise "the profile" in ordinary speech. This Side view orientation is the actual front of the hull, the Bow, and technically not a side of it. For intuitive orthographic description the YT subject treatment gives a profile view (ie a Side) as the "front" projection. The Plan View of Buttock lines does not show "straight lines" anywhere, maybe the idiot should try to explain his thoughts process here. The buttock lines shown do follow the hull contour's outline in slices intersected by a horizontal cutting plane for a given height of Elevation across the hull. This drawing projection is more usually called a Development, like mating a round hole in a tube wall to the end of a tube of equal diameter. Don't ask me why contour slices are called butt lines.

It helped me a lot, I was trying to understand a dredger plan. Thank you