Hull Shape Assistant (HSA) is a new Rhino plug-in providing shape modelling assistance tools focused on design, fairing and reverse engineering.
HSA’s geometry is composed of parts which may be surfaces or a set of curves prepared for lofting a surface. HSA also accepts as an input already existing polysurfaces in form of 1 part, with no specific option to modify it.Functionality:
• automatic joining and trimming of parts, according to defined limiting top, transom and/or skeg shape;
• automatic generation of flat side and flat bottom;
• real-time information regarding distance from reference geometry, which can be points clouds, curves, meshes, surfaces or polysurfaces;
• real-time generation of sections, buttocks and waterlines;
• simplified control over surface curvature and zebra analysis;
• real-time information regarding ship hydrostatic parameters – HSA will try to fill small gaps in imperfect shape if input is non-watertight;
• simple clipping over length;
• simple compact panel for control of plugin functionality.
Currently HSA supports only symmetric hull shapes.