Last night i had got frustrated and had decided that for now just to get me a cool sub designed and not worry abt accuracy. to solve this I had decided to do something I havent seen before (but is probably out there somewhere) and do a Steampunk or Dieselpunk sub. would be cool with all kinds of gears and tubes on it. I still might but last night I had an epiphany and that is I need to trace the top view and profile view, then use those and the body plan drawings and enlarge them to match the top and profile view at the highest an widest part of the boat. doing this should get me close to the ballpark, and then with so many bulkheads along the length it will naturally give me the shape of the pressure hull. at least that is the theory.
I know most of this sounds like blubbering nonsense these posts, however there is a method to my madness. by posting my thought processes now as a totally lost noob, maybe others in my same predicament that are also lost but do not want to post admitting it, may learn. also as you just noticed above, by rambling along i may have just found the solution to my problem. I do stuff for the movies, museums, and military bases with my planes so they have to be as accurate as possible, and over the years I got very good at finding the info I needed and drawing them up. So I am very "xxxxx" when it comes to designing as I need it to be almost perfect. I am new to this and having a lot of problems with finding my info and unlike in the plane world not a lot of people share what they have collected, or just that the info isnt out there. so if this works out for my hull design it will be a major milestone for me and i will just have to accept it as the best I can do for now until I can find some sub drawings with tables of offsets for the boat. once I have TOO and decent number of drawings I can just make an excel sheet and import the curve files into my cad program.
so bear with me as i blubber my way into something here soon as this has been mainly my research and learning and once i get going it will become more interesting. in the meantime as I work out the kinks in my theory I think I will do something steampunk and see if I cannot design a sub that will blow people away.