Photo-Realistic Rendering of the Yacht
Title :- Designing, Modeling, Assembly and Photo-Realistic Rendering of the Yacht.
Objective :- To design the 3D model of the Yacht using SolidWorks.
Introduction:-
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herchel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of unlimited copies. It was widely used for over a century for the reproduction of specification drawings used in construction and industry.
A design blueprint is a high-level plan that guides collaborators through the process of designing and contributing to the development of an open course. Its purpose is to visualize the overall “architecture” of the course to guide the design, development, and cooperation process.
To design and model the yacht we need some kind of reference. that reference may be in form of some concept sketches or the desired views of the product from all the sides (viz. Front view, side view, top view, bottom view, back view). We did the same, we set up blueprints of desired views of a yacht in the Solidworks environment and align each view in proportion to each other. Then we used this blueprint set up as a reference to design all the parts or bodies of the yacht accordingly. We insert the blueprint views in as a sketch and set up it in the proper position.
2) Modeling of Propeller :-
A propeller is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral, that, when rotated, performs an action that is similar to Archimedes' screw. It transforms rotational power into linear thrust by acting upon a working fluid, such as water or air. Propeller is a rotary part of the yacht which is connected to the backside of hull.
In propeller I have used following features.
Revolve :- It is used to rotate the closed 2D sketch about a central axis.
Cut extrude :- It is used to cut the extruded part. In this part, this feature is used to make a hole over the revolved part.
Loft :– It is used to create vanes of the propeller.
Circular pattern :– It is used to copy the pattern in a circular path.
Fillet :– It is used to give the rounded shape to all the corners.
3) Modeling of Radar :-
Radar is a solid body, which is also a rotary part of the yacht. Radar is a detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather information, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna (often the same antenna is used for transmitting and receiving), and a receiver and processor to determine the properties of the objects). Radio waves (pulsed or continuous) from the transmitter reflect off the object and return to the receiver, giving information about the object's location and speed.
In this part following features are used:
Boss extrude :- It is used to extrude the closed 2D sketch upto desirable height.
Cut extrude :– It is used to cut the extruded part to make hole or cut the undesirable part.
Fillet :– It is used to give the rounded shape to the corners & edges with a required radius.
Sketch pattern :– It is used to pattern features aver a sketched point.
Mirror :– It is used to mirror the body by giving the mirror face as reference.
Spit line :– It is used to cut the face into parts. In radar, this feature is used to print the text over it.
Text :– It is a 3D text to be printed over the radar, using split line command.
4) Modeling of the Hull :-
A hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat. The hull may open at the top or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. At top the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, derrick, or mast.
Hull is the base part of yacht. It consists of various surface features which helps in designing the complex shapes of this part. Using merge & knitted option the whole surface part then converted into solid. These are the following surface commands, used in this part:
Blueprint setup – used as a base to sketch the curves & outlines to create the surface.
Surface loft – used to create a surface using at least 2 profile curves & 2 guide curves.
Curve – used as a profile curve or guide curve to form surface & created using 2 2D sketch which is sketched into two different planes.
Surface trim – used to trim the surface.
Surface extrude – used to extrude the surface.
Surface knit – used to knit two or more than two surfaces.
Surface fill – used to create a surface using 4 boundary curves.
Shell – used to hollow the solid model with some thickness
Boss extrude – used to create a solid body from 2D sketch.
Cut extrude – used to cut the extruded part to form hole or cut the undesirable part.
Fillet – used to give round shape to the corners & edges .
Chamfer – used to give a taper to the corners & edges.
Linear pattern – used to pattern the feature over a linear path
Dome – used to create a dome over a solid part.
Split – used to cut out the solid part from the body.
Surface offset – used to offset the surface.
Delete face – used to delete the face.
Sweep – used to form helical shape & pipe using a profile sketch & guide curve to give a path to the profile sketch.
Revolve – used to revolve a closed sketch about an axis by giving one of the line as an axis.
Mirror - used to mirror the half portion of hull to form a complete solid body.
5) Modeling of Garage Door :-
The garage of the yacht is made to carry some useful things such as vehicles or other machinery. Garage consist of a door that may be in hinge connection and will be power operated by some mechanism.
It is an extracted part of hull, which is used as base of garage door. Garage door is a consists of following solid features:
Cut extrude - used to cut the extracted part of the hull.
Shell - used to hollow the solid body with some thickness.
Fillet - used to give the round shape to corners & edges.
Mirror - used to mirror the half portion of hull.
6) Modeling of Front, Middle and Rear Seats :-
As we know Predator yacht is a sunseeker, so there should be a lot of seats for travelers on the hull for travelers to enjoy the surrounding environment. Considering this requirement there will be seats on the front middle and rear of the yacht. These seats are designed so that their look matches the ergonomics of the yacht.
Front Seat :-
Surface loft - used to create a surface using at least 2 profile curves & 2 guide curves.
Surface knit - used to knit two or more than two surfaces.
Cut extrude - used to cut the extruded part to form hole or cut the undesirable part.
Chamfer - Used to give taper shape to the corners & edges.
Mirror – used to mirror the half portion of front seat to opposite side.
In front seat part, offset surface of hull is used as a base reference. It consists of following features:
Surface sweep – used to sweep the surface.
Surface trim – used to trim the surface.
Surface fill – used to fill the surface using 4 boundary curves.
Middle Seat :-
In middle seat part, offset surface of hull is used as a base reference. It consists of following features:
Boss extrude - used to create a solid body from 2D sketch.
Chamfer - used to give taper shape to the corners & edges.
Fillet - used to give round shape to the corners & edges.
Cut extrude – used to cut the extruded part.
Mirror – used to mirror the half portion of middle seat to opposite side.
Rear Seat :-
In rear seat part, offset surface of hull is used as a base reference. It consists of following features:
Surface sweep – used to sweep the surface.
Surface offset – used to offset the surface.
Surface trim– used to trim the surface.
Ruled surface – used to extend the surface in an angle using curve or line.
Surface knit - used to knit two or more than two surfaces.
Surface extrude - used to extrude the surface.
Surface extend – used to extend the surface.
Surface loft - used to create a surface using at least 2 profile curves & 2 guide curves.
Boss extrude - used to create a solid body from 2D sketch.
Sweep - used to form helical shape & pipe using a profile sketch & guide curve to give a path to the profile sketch.
Revolve – used to revolve a closed sketch about an axis by giving one of the line as an axis.
Fillet - used to give round shape to the corners & edges.
Chamfer - used to give round shape to the corners & edges.
Mirror - used to mirror the half portion of rear seat to opposite side.
7) Creation of Superstructure :-
A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. This term is applied to various kinds of physical structures such as buildings, bridges or ships.
As stated above, the superstructure consists of the parts of the ship or a boat, including sailboats, fishing boats, passenger ships, and submarines, that project above its main deck.
In superstructure, offset surface of hull is used as a base reference & blueprint setup is used for outline the sketches on respected plane. It is placed over the hull part.it consists of following features:
Surface extrude - used to extrude the surface.
Surface sweep – used to sweep the surface.
Curve - used as a profile curve or guide curve to form surface & created using 2 2D sketch which is sketched into two different planes.
3D sketch – used to sketch in 3D. in this part it is used to join the end points of curves.
Surface trim – used to trim the surface using surface or sketch entities as a trim tool.
Surface knit – used to knit the individual surface to combine it.
Ruled surface - used to extend the surface in an angle using curve or line.
Surface loft – used to create a surface using 2 guide curves & 2 profile curves.
Surface extend – used to extend the surface.
Surface extrude – used to extend the surface.
Surface offset – used to offset surface from the base .
Split line – used to split the face using sketch entity.
Delete face – used to delete the face.
Boss extrude – used to extrude the closed sketch.
Cut extrude – used to cut the extruded part to create hole or cut the undesirable part.
Fillet – used to give round shape to corners & edges.
Chamfer – used to give taper shape to corners & edges.
Mirror – used to mirror the half portion of superstructure to its opposite side using mid plane as a mirror face.
8) Modeling of Radar Mast :-
Radar mast is a part which is placed over superstructure. For the design of the radar mast, we take reference from the blueprint as well as a surface that we have created in the hull design for future use. We mostly used extrude and cut-extrude feature to create solid bodies. Revolve feature is used to create horns and dome.
Boss extrude – used to extrude the closed sketch.
Revolve – used to revolve a closed sketch about an axis by giving one of the line as an axis.
Sweep - used to sweep a profile curve along a defined path.
Curve – used as a profile curve or guide curve to form surface & created using 2 2D sketch which is sketched into two different planes.
Fillet - used to give round shape to corners & edges.
Chamfer - used to give taper shape to corners & edges.
Shell – used to create a hollow body.
Combine – used to combine to solid bodies.
Mirror – used to mirror the half portion of superstructure to its opposite side using mid plane as a mirror face.
9) Final Assembly Model of the Yacht :-
After designing and modeling of all the components of Yacht, we call each part individually in the assembly environment. We first call the hull of the yacht and makes it fixed. Then other components are inserted and proper mates are applied. These mates provide all the parts a constrained motion according to their behaviour. The mates which are used in this assembly to combine all the parts are as follows:
Coincident mate – used to give a constrained reciprocating motion to the part
Concentric mate – used to aline the parts in one direction.
Angle mate - used to give a rotary motion to the parts about an axis or plane.
Hinge mate – used to provide the hinge on garage door part.
Tangent mate – used to give a constrained motion to the radar.
Isometric View :-
Front View :-
Side View :-
Photo-Realistic Rendering :-
The rendering is done using photoview 360, which gives the aesthetic look to the yacht. The following steps are taken to render the yacht assembly:
- At first switch on the photoview 360 option, Tools -> add-in-> photoview 360
- Then go to render tool option. In this section, all option is available to set the rendering.
- Set yacht assembly in a perspective view.
- Add camera to setup the view at an angle.
- Add lights, to get appropriate brightness over the assembly.
- Add background scene & environment scene to give the assembly an outstanding background.
- Click on option from render tool, tool bar to set the size of the window.
- Then, Preview window option is used to create a preview image of the setup.
- After that final render is done using final render option given in render tool, tool bar.
- After getting desirable look to the assembly, click on save image option to save the image.
Here are some rendered images, which I have created using ‘Photoview 360’:
Similarly I have used Solidworks visualize and edited background of the Yatch by using backplate option and then performed the rendering.
Renderded Images
Solidworks Visualize :-
Similarly I have used Solidworks visualize and edited background of the Yatch by using backplate option and then performed the rendering.
Conclusion :-
The parts of the Yacht are sketched and modeled in Solidworks.
The parts are inserted into the assembly environment and by applying proper the mates yacht was assembled.
The realistic image was rendered by using photo view 360 & Solidworks visualize.