I have gotten very comfortable using FreeShip but one thing I never liked about the offsest file it produced was the decimal dimensions. I am so used to working in fractions and to lazy to convert them one by one. So I used an engineering scale but then it was hard for me to see the smallest divisions. So I ended up getting close as I could. Kept wishing there was an easy way to convert to 32's or an inch and I just found it.

I import the text file Freeship create into Excel. I had written a a simple formula that converted from feet to inches but it was still decimals. What I didn't realize was that I could take that one step further and Excel could convert from decimal to fractions and round them off. It's going to make laying out the next boat much simpler for me.

And for anyone that prefers metric you could convert from imperial to Metric fairly just as easy. Hope this helps someone out. It was sort of obvious once I saw how to do it.