JOIN

Purpose

To join the two halves of a ship which have been modelled separately.

Syntax

Description

Using the JOIN command, a second design can be joined with the current ship at a common Section, Pline or Tangent. The merged ship can optionally be saved with a new name.

If two curves with the same name or position exist in the two designs and have a common intersection point, they will be joined and any discontinuity at the join will be removed. If no common intersection exists then the following actions are taken:-

• Knuckles, Tangents, Plines, Diagonals, Clines, Patches, - The curve from the joining design will be stored with the character "1" appended to the name. If this curve also exists, then the character "2" will be tried and then "3", and so on. If the curve name is 8 characters long then the 8th character will be replaced with "1", "2",

• Boundary curves - The curve from the joining design will be saved as a Tangent curve.

• Waterlines, Buttocks - The curve from the joining design will be stored as a Pline with name Wposition or Bposition. For example, Waterline 2.5 in the joining design which has no common intersection with Waterline 2.5 in the current design will be saved as Pline W25000.

Patch definitions only are merged into the current design. The Patches will need to be refitted by the user.