: @Brian

: In a previous post you said "After you get it into Delftship
: and faired then it's easy to output full-sized station forms at
: any interval that you desire."

: I don't understand how you can get form/station output for chined
: boats when using Delftship ... that's what's tripping me up.

: I use the free version and as far a I can tell it doesn't have that
: capability. For each station it outputs the beam at various
: waterline heights ... and the waterline height rarely
: corresponds with a chine location at any particular station. So
: in order to get the chine offset ... seems to me you'd have to
: play with the waterline heights until they correspond with the
: chine locations at each station ... or ... knowing that the
: panels of chined boats are flat ... deduce the chine offset
: graphically by plotting the offsets at each waterline and
: extending them until they intersect at the chine. Seems one
: method is to wash the .dxf Delftship output through a CAD
: program to get form coordinates but I haven't tried it yet ...
: still looking for a freeware CAD program.

: Bottom line though ... how are you using Defltship to get form
: coordinates?

: Ken Blanton

Ya know, if you have the beam measurements of the stations at different waterlines you could just plot them full size (on paper or wood) and draw the frames manually. All of the design doesn't have to be done on the computer ;)

Bill H.