Add twin rudders to ORC Offset file

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  1. MST3000
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    MST3000 Junior Member

    Twin rudders are added in the appendages tab, in the ORC manager app as opposed to a drawing in rhino3D, but there very little documentation any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

    From the Offset XML file:

    <appendage id="1" parentid="0" apptype="2"> (2 is the code for rudders)
    <clientanchor x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
    <parentanchor x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
    <rotation x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
    <poweraxis x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
    <fraction value="1"/>
    <swingangle value="0"/>
    <strip thickness="0" code="0">
    <lead x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
    <chord x="0" y="0" z="0"/>
    </strip>
    </appendage>

    ?Which is to be populated with this data, from the ORC VPP documentation, which is pre 2021!
    ryoff = 1.0m
    rxoff = 7.9m
    rspan = 1.1m
    rchordroot = 0.22m
    rchordtip = 0.143m
    r_thicknessroot = 0.0246m
    r_thicknesstip = 0.01716m
    angle = 30deg (lateral inclination)
    ? Angle yoff = (the stagger from CL of the root. if = 0 means single rudder)
     
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