Ship Production

Lecture 8 Drawing Office

How do the
fabricators know
what to build?

Drawing

Ship drawing office:

Responsible for producing for hull & outfit:
Structural drawings
(in accordance with Classification Society &
subject to their approval)
General arrangement drawings including outfit
plans, piping arrangements, air conditioning etc
(allow for statutory requirements)

Traditional method:
1. Full faired lines plan drawn manually (pencil/ink
on paper/film, battens & weights for curves)
body plan, profile & waterline plan.
2. Table of offsets produced breadths, height
of decks, stringers etc.
3. Drawing loft full size lines
drawn on loft floor & faired.
4. Scrieve board produced
wooden board with body
sections at each frame
5. Templates produced for
cutting frames & plates

Moulded Dimensions:

Moulded
Dimensions:

Moulded Dimensions:

Modern method:

Modern method:

Modern method:
Full faired lines plan drawn using CAD package
e.g. Autoship, Maxsurf.

Modern method:
Manual lofting process superceded.
Information for bending frames and
longitudinals, developing shell plates etc
determined using software.

Shell Expansion:
3d model represented as 2d drawing

Nesting:
Parts fitted into plate with minimum wastage
Details transferred to numerically controlled NC
cutter

Assignment 2:

Further reading:
Eyres, D., Ship Construction, 5th Edition, Butterworth-Heinmann, Oxford, UK, 2001.
Taylor, D., Merchant Ship Construction, 4th Edition, Institute of Marine Engineers, London,
UK, 1998.
Taggart, R., Ship Design and Construction, SNAME, New Jersey, USA, 1980.
Storch, R., Hammon, C., Bunch H., and Moore R., Ship Production, 2 nd Edition, SNAME
New Jersey, USA, 1995.
Lamb, T., Ship Design and Construction I & II, SNAME, New Jersey, USA, 2003.
Lewis, E., Ed. Principles of Naval Architecture: Volume I - Stability and Strength, SNAME,
New Jersey, USA, 1988.

Recap/Reflect