Todd,

I am also gearing up to build a Guillimot this winter. I struggled for a while trying to input the offset tables into a spreadsheet, but never found a satisfactory method of printing them out. The problem is that Excel does not make graphs to scale, and trying to scale the Excel graphs using other programs did not work as accurately as I would have liked. Also, I do not have access to a printer that could print the forms on a single sheet of paper, so piecing several smaller sheets together after printing them out would also add to the inconvenience of using a computer. In the end I ended up using graph paper and plotting the points by hand. This actually took less time than I had spent playing around with various methods of using a computer. I would recommend buying some graph paper and doing it the old fashioned way.

By the way, this is my first post on this board. I've been hanging around for the past year, and thanks to the help of everyone here I've completed a skin on frame and a stitch and glue. I've benifitted from all the advice on this board, and even though I still don't feel fully qualified, I thought I should post some advice once in awhile too.

Mike
: Hi,

: I am gearing up for this winter's project, a stripper after reading Nick's
: book cover to cover 20-30 times.(Last year was a S&G, I am hooked!) I
: check the BBS once a day and really enjoy reading the posts, very
: informative! I *am* getting a little loopy with the whole offset table
: thing though. Anyone have any tips for me? I do have a copy of Autocad
: lite, but I am not fluent with Autocad. Maybe there is something that I
: can use in there to help me out.

: Thanks in advance for the help, I will read the offset portion of the book
: again and hopefully I will be able to extract my head from my....

: -Todd