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    Generally I like working with out the dremel. I find when I do detail work I like a tool that is about the size of a pen or pencil and I can control the amount of pressure I use. I guess because I can feel the wood and it's resistance to my pressure. A dremel is a little bigger and much heavier thus making it a little awkward and the feedback of the motor makes it almost impossible to feel the wood. There are some clever jigs that have been created that employ the dremel for a miniature lathe to a router. There is nothing wrong with your dremel, it's always a nice tool to have in your shipyard.
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    Most likely you are dealing with a copy of a copy of a copy and as such nothing is likely parallel or straight. I found the best thing you can do is establish your perpendiculars, the correct length, breadth and depth of your ship and scale your plans to fit as best you can to those parameters. You'll then need to make some assumptions and educated guesses, create you own water lines and diagonals and make the best of it. In the end your plans will be fair and workable. Warning... with CAD there is a danger of wanting make everything supper accurate and super fair. Little deviations here and there can slow your work down to a crawl and drive you mad...lol.
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    Is there any way to unmount the painting to see if any information is contained on the back of the canvas? Sometimes there is information under the backing.
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    Chuck, these carvings look very thin. What precautions did you take to keep from breaking them?
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    I just found this build, very impressed with the care and quality of your work Karl.
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    Gary, I've been following your build and wanted to know how much of your lower deck details are still visible?
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    When I open multiple massive assemblies in Solid works and then open individual components it seems after a fashion SW starts acting weird and strange things happen when working in a sketch or drawing. I've learned with experience the solution is to save my work and reboot. Have you tried rebooting?
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    In my experience the image used for sketching needs to be on a layer that is underneath the sketch layer. I think this is true for most cad programs. If you are trying to sketch on the same layer as the image, your lines, arcs and or points are being hidden because the cad program doesn't know what you want displayed. Try using a different layer for your sketching and a separate layer for your image.
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    I've had pretty good luck getting replacement parts from ME. I think if you explain the situation like you did above they'll send a replacement.
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    Nice work on the transom pieces Alan, As to the other measuring oversight, don't look at it as a mistake but as an opportunity.
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    Everything looks good as usual Chuck and I like how you've laid out your monograph. The color photos are nice and clear and the content well thought out. I might have asked you this before, are you doing your own laser cutting these days?
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    Nice work Alan! I always learn something when I come to see your progress. Have you tried using a 4H or 6H pencil? I have found that these leads hold their sharpness a little longer than the standard 2H.
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    Alan did you ever look at using copper staples? I don't know if they would have them in the proper scale or are you striving to make a completely scratch build.
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    Alan, see if your camera has a macro mode as this will allow you to zoom up closers and get clear pictures.
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    These are awesome drawings Alan, very impressive.
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    Excellent work Alan. Your model will be an inspiration to others. I especially like your development of the stern, beautifully done.
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    I think your model is looking great Alan, I'm taking great care to study your work. I do have a question and hopefully it won't detract you to much from your goal. Since Inventor allows you to project 2D curves into 3D, what was the final shape of your upper and lower heights of breadth in the body plan? Do they follow the lines of the Elephant? Druxey commented in one of my post that the designer pretty much had control over this and I'm just curious how they actually projected out. I refer to my post #864
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    Thanks Alan, now if MSW would just get their notifications fixed.
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    Really nice work Alan. Your framing looks nice and smooth with no bumps. That's cool! That would save a lot of time. I'm still reading thru your post to learn how you faired your hull. Have you done a comparison of your centers of floor sweeps, upper and lower breadth sweeps to the Bellerophon's? How closely do they match the original draft. That might be beyond the scope of your work here but I was just curious. What do the zebra line look like now (haha)? ---edited---- SW will let you project 2D curves from different planes to make one 3D curve. Tested it today.
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    I've been learning to work with https://www.onshape.com/ They offer a free plan and a pro plan ($100/mo) At it's core OS is very much like SolidWorks. It is certainly worth checking out. There is no software to download or install, runs in your browser and requires that your system is WebGL compliant.
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    Alan, I was reading through the last few post and paying close attention to how you developed your hull station lines. You sketched out the water lines first and then it seems you matched the curves of the hull station to those points on the water line. Am I correct in that assessment? Have you done a hull surface to see how smooth it is? I hope you doing well and you've just taken an extended brake.
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    If you're interested in English ship design from say 1780 -1820, I would suggest Steel's "The Shipwrights Vade Mecum" easily found on Google and Ree's "Naval Architecture" which you can find at Abe books or similar rare book stores, also Peter Goodwin's "Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War" and Scantlings of Royal Navy Ships which comprises the Repository and Steel's "Elements of Naval Architecture" by Allan Yedlinsky. Also, Deanes Doctrine of Naval Architecture which has been mentioned already, though Deanes work starts around 1670 if I recall. The Ree's and Steel works mentioned above use a lot of the same language, nearly verbatim in some paragraphs. You could also pop on over and read thru my post "Scantling Questions" http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/4080-scantling-questions/ I'm currently under taking the task of drafting plans for a 74 gun ship from scratch, this is not a tracing or redrawing of existing plans, but real drafting using the sources mentioned above. You'll find references to many of the sources mentioned so far plus a few more. I would recommend that you pick a subject (ship) and a time period because English ship design changed over the years and what was done in one century might not be what was done a century earlier.
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    I thought this might be of interest to all of you following this post https://www.onshape.com/cad-blog/onshape-goes-to-sea
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    I would start with very simple shapes, like 2x4's or octagons anything with simple shapes and here's why. Starting with something simple will help you learn the controls and features of AUTOCAD. It will teach you where the icons are (if any) and it will help you learn the basic drawing tasks that you'll need to master to later draw your ship plans. Do a search on youTube, there are numerous videos for beginners. As an extra, go to your local library and check out a high school drafting book and try to draw the simple projects they might have in the book. If you do any scroll work learn to draw your scroll patterns. If you try and tackle something big and difficult, you'll get frustrated and discouraged. Don't be in a hurry and just take your time. It might take you a couple of weeks or maybe a couple of months to master enough of autocad to start your ship plans.
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    Since my first post a little over a month ago, I have been working with Onshape. I created a Free account and I have been steadily learning how to use the program. Anyone with 3D modeling experience should have no difficulty working with this program. There is absolutely no software to download and none of the programs functionality is withheld. I did have to purchase a new graphics card as my old ATI Radeon card did not support webgl. I spent about $60 on a new card. I can pretty much do any task I want on my PC, stream video or music and the modeling is not in anyway hampered by my multi-tasking. I'm have a dual core pentium processor and it handles things very nicely. I can only imagine what the new i3 and i5 chips can do. Anyway, I have spent the last two weeks remodeling my 74 gun ship in Onshape and I have modeled some other interesting parts. The starship Enterprise was an assembly of a SW model I had created several years ago. This is really exciting technology be cause a doing a group build or in this case a group design is a real possibility. Several people can be working on the same part at the same time and all the changes are saved. That's another nice thing about onShape, you never have to save your work, it saves it for you. You can also go back and review every change you ever made or review your entire modeling process.

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