LarsHB
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Connecting of engines with the mainstructur
And here is the second question:
-> How to connect Engines or Repulsors with the mainstructure of a ship?
In many ships it looks like the engines are lying around in a room. But there must be a connection to the main- or superstructure to transmit the force and acceleration.
Even repulsors must be linked to the structure, to lift a ship.
Maybe a big reactor should be associated with big beams to the structure, because it is one of the heaviest parts of the engine.
I hope you have some suggestions...
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10/13/2006, 7:01 am
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Lucas P
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Re: Connecting of engines with the mainstructur
duct tape? just kidding 
My understanding of the way we display the internal components is for clarity. If we were to put in all the support structures and binding struts and cages, then we would not be able to see the components anymore.
However, if you want to make a design and add the support structures, that would be interesting to see.
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10/13/2006, 7:40 am
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Re: Connecting of engines with the mainstructur
Most structures are assumed to be bolted, welded, or glued to the floor. There are some cases were you see some indication of other means of restraint. But in most cases they are not drawn in the 2d birdseye view of the ships as they would take away from the view of the object itself.
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10/13/2006, 7:41 am
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Re: Connecting of engines with the mainstructur
Well, I agree that in most ships, techstuff looks like boxes put into a room, but most ships don't even have credible structural features to begin with.
In my rework of the Rising Dragon, I have started including many of these features in the layout, like support elements. The entire frame can't be in the crawlspaces.
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10/13/2006, 8:08 am
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Re: Connecting of engines with the mainstructur
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The entire frame can't be in the crawlspaces
With the external walls, yes it can. There may be a few joiners along the center but that would only be in really large (capital) ships.
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10/13/2006, 1:41 pm
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Re: Connecting of engines with the mainstructur
Arg... You are right of course. Let me rephrase that.
Sure, the entire structural frame CAN be in the crawlspace, because the crawlspace is often, where the structural frame is, since there is less space to use and a lot of obstructions.
More important however, is that these structural systems should not all be in horizontal crawlspaces between flat cut decks.
A ship has certain ribs, struts, cross-supports and so on and they got to have some influence on the internally availlable room. Tensor field generators and certain other systems have to be strategically placed.
Yet, we should not forget, that these ships have acceleration compensators. Most of the stuff inside does not suffer from any of the innertial forces that apply to the ship.
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10/13/2006, 4:39 pm
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