DELFTShip replacing FREEShip

[Lewisboats]

Yesterday it was announced to the FREEShip_HT_and_T Yahoo group the the long awaited professional release of FREEShip...now called DELFTShip has arrived. There is a free version with pretty much the same things available to current FREEShip users and a Professional version with additional features and additional modules you can purchase. This is not an advertisement simply a notification of importance seeing as a lot of us use it.

The address for the site is http://www.Delftship.net

I have no affiliation with the software producers other than I moderate the Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeship_HTandT_Group

Steve Lewis
Lewisboats

[Bruce Taylor]

There is a free version with pretty much the same things available to current FREEShip users

Well, not really. I've only played with the new version for a few minutes, but it looks like cross curves, IGES import/export, and 2D .DXF export are gone. Plate developments don't seem to be printable...hmm, lots of other changes.

I'm certainly not complaining. Martijn has given a lot to us amateur designers and I hope he does well with the commercial extensions to his software.

[brian.cunningham]

Thanks.

I wish SolidWorks had stability curves, perhaps someone's written an extension.

[Lewisboats]

You're right...seems like most things enabling you to actually BUILD something with the results have been disabled (you can still maneuver the panels and then zoom in for the intersecting coordinates from the develop panels tool). You can export the Linesplan as a DXF still too. I hadn't played with it more than a couple of minutes so I kinda jumped the gun a bit...shame on me! Another interesting thing to note is that the "Draft" is no longer to the keel but to the DWL...not intuitive at all, as you have to subtract the depth below the DWL to the Keel from the draft to have the same effect as what you had originally in Freeship. You can open Freeship files but if you want to keep using Freeship on that file DON'T save it as a Delftship 3.1 file. Freeship can't open it. You are right about Martjin giving a lot but I would have wished that the pro version was a bit less pricey for the return of a bunch of tools in the free version (plus of course some new ones I hope).

Steve

[htom]

One of the great things about things released under the GNU license is that they can be forked if the project team does things that the users don't like. We (or others) take the 2.4 source or 2.6 source or whatever is the latest that we can find, and continue.