Offset tables

[john.G]

Are there any of the hull design programs that can draw the vessel by loading in a table of offsets?

I'm about to start playing with these things for the first time, but I have a table of offsets for a very similar hull to start off with.

Yep... probably a dumb question. But if I don't ask I won't learn.

Thanks all.
John

[Landlubber]

That would be good, never heard of it.
I have CAD and MaxSurf and Rhino, but none of these can do that.

[Rick Willoughby]

You should be able to get them into Delftship if you follow through post #6 in this thread:
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/design-software/delftship-importing-text-files-table-offsets-26104.html

You can get a free version of Delftship or you can post your table of offsets and I should be able to get them into a suitable format.

Rick W

[Ad Hoc]

failing the above

Paramarine version 6 does it all very neatly...and a whole lot more too. But it is not free.

[YuriB]

Free!ship
http://freeship-plus.land.ru/indexEN.html
see manual for offset table file importing

[Landlubber]

Thanks fellas, very interesting, may save lots of hours playing with the computer.

[john.G]

Thanks all. I appreciate your willingness to answer what must seem like idiot questions, most of which you seem to have answered before. Much appreciated.