Best Free or Low Cost Marine Design Software? (2008-2010)

[marshmat]

Good and useful trick, NoEyeDeer; I do the same thing on occasion. One change I'd suggest: Drawings of any kind shouldn't be saved as JPEGs. The JPEG algorithm is designed for continuous tone photographs and renderings, and tends to create ugly image artifacts near lines and in regions of solid colour. On drawings with lines and regions of solid colour, PNG images compress better and with much less damage to the picture.

[marshmat]

Originally Posted by daiquiri

I think it's a pitty that such a nice software has only two resistance predictions available - and none for planing hulls, for example. I wrote that to Martijn a year or more ago, and have hoped to hear that something has changed in the meanwhile...

Perhaps it'll come... my impression of Martijn's modus operandi is that he won't include anything in his commercial code until he's thoroughly validated it for a broad range of possible cases. Now that Delftship's aimed pretty up-market, the consequences of a hard-to-catch bug could be ugly, so I wouldn't be surprised if he's treading carefully rather than cramming in every resistance method he can find.

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Continued in 2011 at Best Free or Low Cost Marine Design Software? (2011)