In the back of my head I remembered that Maya has a DXF exporter. Turns out there is (and probably even a super-moar-better way than what I’m about to describe, if you know CAD better than I do, which wouldn’t be much of a stretch). To make this work I need a way to generate the CAD data myself, add dimensions to it, and export out as a DWG. I’ve been using Maya since… 1998(?) and never once needed to export anything CAD related, so this was all new territory.
Then, my father gave the pdf to a buddy who traced it in CAD, gave it dimensions, then provided that to the plasma-cutter (as a DWG).Use online converter to go from obj -> pdf.The biggest hurdle was getting him ‘the usable data’. The process of making the boat in Maya is discussed above. Making (real) aluminum boats in Maya : The results.It was an enjoyable process last year: Based on a napkin sketch with some dimensions and angles he gave me, I modeled a boat out of NURBS in Maya, and through a lot of hoop-jumping, got him some useable data: It’s that time of year again: Time to help my father build a new aluminum boat.
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