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Re: Offsets for Hull Forms
By:Nick Schade
Date: 12/10/1998, 9:10 am
In Response To: Offsets for Hull Forms (Alan)

Like Paul suggests you need a graphics program that can tile pages together and lets you re-scale objects. If you group all the forms together and draw a rectangle the size of the biggest form, then stretch the forms to fit the rectangle, you should end up with full-sized drawings.

> In Nick's book he suggests plotting the hull form offsets using a
> spreadsheet program and then exporting the file to a CAD or drawing
> program for printing in full scale. I've plotted the points and graphed on
> Excel but had no luck in printing the output in full size. Has anyone had
> any luck with the method and what particular softwear did you use for
> plotting and for printing the output?

Messages In This Thread

Offsets for Hull Forms
Alan -- 12/9/1998, 12:38 pm
Re: Offsets for Hull Forms
Greg Sherman -- 12/11/1998, 1:30 pm
Re:Expensive of software
Nick Schade -- 12/12/1998, 10:41 am
Re: Offsets for Hull Forms
Nick Schade -- 12/10/1998, 9:10 am
Re: Offsets for Hull Forms
Paul Jacobson -- 12/9/1998, 1:52 pm