Water Modellling in solid works
Water Modellling in solid works
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Hi there
I am trying to model a ship in water in solid works. Is it possible to model water in solid works.
Has any one got any tutorials..
Thanks a lot
I am trying to model a ship in water in solid works. Is it possible to model water in solid works.
Has any one got any tutorials..
Thanks a lot






RE: Water Modellling in solid works
Do you have a photo of what you want to create?
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
Dan
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RE: Water Modellling in solid works
What i am trying to model is to do a simulation on the model to try and find the change in buoyancy, due to a very high exentric loading.
Have you got any Suggetions? As we have to model properties of water to see how it behaves...
Thanks.
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
There is no way to automatically do this. You will have to do it iteratively.
Given the weight of the vessel, you can determine the amount of displacement required. You can then "cut" at the waterline until that amount of displacement is achieved.
The difficulty is in trying to get the correct list on the vessel so that the center of buoyancy is in line with the center of gravity. You will likely need to try many times to get close to the right vector.
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
I used a flat solid and used a couple of Sketches and the Deform tool to make my wave like water appear to be moving with the Jitterbug.... it was not to hard once I figured it out... just took a lot of tweaking at both the sketch and the feature. Check out the other images on the site. There are other angles I made that shows the waves in the water.
Hope that helps,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Water Modellling in solid works
You should either use a Naval Architecture program or do it the old fashioned way with Solidworks helping with some of the numbers needed.
-Joe
SolidWorks 2011 x64 SP 4 on Windows XP x64
8 GB RAM - Nvidia Quadro FX1700
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
-Joe
SolidWorks 2011 x64 SP 4 on Windows XP x64
8 GB RAM - Nvidia Quadro FX1700
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
Rob Stupplebeen
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RE: Water Modellling in solid works
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
If he wants to model Water, then using the deform tool works fine... but I don't know how using some sort of FEA software simulation or otherwise is going to help someone model water??
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Water Modellling in solid works
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
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Pretty good with SolidWorks
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
Scott Baugh, CSWP
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Cad Admin\Design Engineer
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RE: Water Modellling in solid works
So you need to integrate the area below a horizontal line of unknown height to a circular cross section. I simply kept on increasing the line height to get an upper limit and then gradually reducted it in order to get a lower limit. You can then numerically integrate between those two limits.
Was a lot of fun using closed form equations from the integration, I was something like 2% error when the raft was built and loaded with the exact weight used in the calculation.
Your problem is remarkably similar.
Regards,
Cockroach
RE: Water Modellling in solid works
Cockroach - Would it be possible if you could sent me the model that you have made up.
It will be helpful for me to study the concepts.What were your support conditions.
Tick - We tried almost the same concept,Trying to find a solution.
Regards