: David

: I used a program called turbo Cad If you would like a copy let me know You
: can do all the forms and print them out, I just finish doing the great Auk
: It took me about 5 hours. Good Luck

Elk,

Thanks for the offer. I actually have Turbo Cad 1.0 and might see what it does for comparison. Can you give a brief description of your method (i.e: did you set up Turbo Cad as a graph and just plot points or inter the offsets somehow)? However creating the offset drawing itself is not my problem. Putting all the info (except the diagonals which are unique to the Guillemot) into the spreadsheet, transferring the graph to Freehand, and resizing to proportion yielded the drawings. What I don't understand is how to figure out what the "diagonal value times the cosine of the angle" and "diagonal value times the sine of the angle plus the starting height" is. I know that the formula can be programmed into Excel and it will do the trig. for me, but I don't know how to write that formula or what numbers to use where.

One last thing. In Turbo Cad, could you get a fair curve to connect the plot points? I know this is not important as I can do it by hand after printing, but part of the reason for me doing this on the computer is for me to actually learn some more about the software on my hard drive. I'm sure it can be done in Freehand, but I haven't figured it out yet. Anybody have advice?

Thanks again, David