hydrostatics command in vb component

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on June 16, 2014 at 2:35pm

You can run commands from a VB component, but it's typically pretty difficult to harvest the results. Are you looking to get the data produced by the Hydrostatics command?

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David Rutten

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 16, 2014 at 4:03pm

If you use Solid Difference to remove the portion of your hull above water you can get pretty much.all the data you need.

The volume is your displacement

The centroid of which is your lcb

Extracting the top surface is your wpa

The length and breadth of which is your waterline length and beam

The centroid of which is your lcf

The area of what remains after the extraction of the wpa is your wsa

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on June 17, 2014 at 3:22am

Hi Thomas,

If it helps this shows an example of what I mean:

NB you can change the point about which it transforms for Draft and Trim

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• Hydrostatics.gh, 45 KB