I need HELP please!! How to make this SOLID.

Hye. I'm new around here so please take it easy on me

My problem sounds like this ... I have the forms 3d of a ship and I want to make it solid using Autocad.

I attached a picture so please if anyone knows... or even have an idea... please do help me... Thanks!

Pretty busy drawing you have there. Have you considered the use of the Loft command?

Well .... I tried... but i don't know exactly how... so my trying was in vain

Well .... I tried... but i don't know exactly how...

And that's why there is AutoCAD Help and good after-market AutoCAD books. Never undersestimate the value of either.

The Loft command is pretty easy to use. Once invoked AutoCAD will prompt you thusly:

Select cross-sections in lofting order:

That is your clue to start selecting, in order, the cross-sections you have created. I would suggest that you select a dozen or so rather than all of them just to see how AutoCAD handles the objects you have chosen. Refer to the Help file for further details regarding the Loft command.

The selected cross-sections should be selected in consecutive order and not randomly.

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OK...gotta go. The New York Giants game is starting. Yeah football!

Hye. I'm new around here so please take it easy on me

My problem sounds like this ... I have the forms 3d of a ship and I want to make it solid using Autocad.

I attached a picture so please if anyone knows... or even have an idea... please do help me... Thanks!

you are going to have to do that in multiple steps. when you say you need a solid, do you actually need a thin surface like a shell of the hull? or do you actually need the whole thing solid?

Most of the hull will be fairly easy but there are a few parts that will give you trouble. Looking at the bottom you may need to create of modify some of your curves and make the fins off the bottom a separate operation.

You should try what Remark suggested and see if it works.Then post back here.

@Shift: If he can get the wanted solid by using the LOFT command,then it would be easy to shell the object to get the desired thickness.

Aren't there dedicated programs for this type of thing (ship building)?

unigraphics.

lazarus, i was wondering what he wanted because of some of the detail in the sides of the hull on his image. For instance the red lined area at the top left. If he were to make a surface model this would be simple, but making a solid he would need to make the hull then make that area to subtract. I was more referring to a surface model rather than a shell of a solid, i just mistyped:)

Well .... I tried... but i don't know exactly how... so my trying was in vain

I agree with ReMark if you don't know how to do something by all means, try to learn how and what it does, either by using the built in help or by reading up on it on a Book.