: Bryan,

: How did you get Delftship to output station offsets? As far as I
: can tell, neither the free or paid version of Delftship can
: output offsets in the format we'd like to see them in ... which
: is simply the X,Y, Z location of the shear, chine and keel. Or
: am I missing something ...

: Ken Blanton

Before you get the offsets, you have to add waterlines and stations to the model. The offsets will then output the intersection of your station line and the waterline for each station. The manual (p.19) shows the offsets table required for importing a model, and it spits out the offsets in the same format. The export command is found under File > Export > Offsets. Here's an example using waterlines set every 0.0833 feet (1 inch)--I'm not sure if everything will line up here, so I'm attaching a screenshot:

Height of waterline is found on the first line:

xxxxxx 0.083 0.167 0.250 0.333 0.417 0.500 0.583 0.666 0.750 0.833 0.916 1.000 1.083 1.166 1.250

The width of each station at the waterline height for station 10 (10 feet from the stern):

10.000 0.478 0.667 0.724 0.754 0.777 0.794 0.797 0.780 0.741 0.668 0.527 0.201 0.000 0.000 0.000 1.026 0.000 0.018

The last three lines represent the height of the deck seam line (center of the deck in a kayak), width of the seam line from center and height of the keel above the centerline. 1.026, 0.000, 0.018

The trick is defining each station and waterline where you need them.