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If you want to see someone go from zero to building out a small plywood boat using FREE!Ship to design the plans, see https://www.armylakeboatco.com/ https://ww

If you want to see someone go from zero to building out a small plywood boat using FREE!Ship to design the plans, see https://www.armylakeboatco.com/ https://www.armylakeboatco.com/ and their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@armylakeboatco https://www.youtube.com/@armylakeboatco. If you're looking for community, see the boatdesign.net forums: https://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/ https://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/ or r/boatbuilding. DELFTship is the commercial successor, but it's daunting: https://www.delftship.net/ https://www.delftship.net/

themerone 3y ago
Chesapeake Light Craft is a great source for supplies and ready to build kits: https://clcboats.com https://clcboats.com
app4soft 3y ago
> DELFTship is the commercial successor, but it's daunting Author of DELFTship is an author of original opensource FREE!ship in Delphi. But after FREE!ship v2.60 project was abandoned on SourceForge.[0] Then FREE!ship was forked and extended into FREE!ship Plus[1] by Associate Prof. Victor Timoshenko[2] (National Univerisity of Shipbuilding, Mykolaiv, Ukraine). FREE!ship Plus v3.50 was the last release of extended fork in Delphi, and it also got a lot of closed source freeware plugins.[3] Since 2015 FREE!ship Plus was forked into FreeShip Plus in Lazarus by Mark Malakanov, initially it was planned as a port for Linux[4]. Project is active on GitHub. Also, there was the ShipCAD — a try by Greg Green to rewrite original FREE!ship to C++/Qt, but it was unfinished and abandoned.[5] [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/freeship https://sourceforge.net/p/freeship [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160927052330/http://www.hydronship.net/index.php?lang=en http://web.archive.org/web/20160927052330/http://www.hydrons... [2] https://linkedin.com/victor-timoshenko-33a053a https://linkedin.com/victor-timoshenko-33a053a [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20160927062856/http://www.hydronship.net/programs.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20160927062856/http://www.hydrons... [4] http://web.archive.org/web/20160822054832/http://hydronship.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=1 http://web.archive.org/web/20160822054832/http://hydronship.... [5] https://github.com/gpgreen/ShipCAD https://github.com/gpgreen/ShipCAD
- bcardarella 3y ago
  Any change of getting a non-Windows build? I have no idea but I would imagine the % of HN readers that or on MacOS or Linux is high.
  - app4soft 3y ago
    Yes, FreeShip Plus in Lazarus already packaged for Linux (see DEB-packages in releases assets).[0] [0] https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus/releases/tag/5.0.36.490 https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus/releases...
- detourdog 3y ago
  Does anyone know of how this compares to Hullform? I have the source for 9.12 that I keep meaning to try to get going.
  - app4soft 3y ago
    > I have the source for 9.12 Source code of Hullform?
    - detourdog 3y ago
      yes, I was doing a lot of research in this are 18 or so months ago and I stumbled on it and downloaded it. I don’t have windows so I haven’t done anything with it yet. My memory is that it is very early lofting software and has a reputation for being a close analog to the actual process. I have strange CAD ideas that are closer to lofting than using a mouse. My intention was to look through the source to find the “engine” and work around that.
      - app4soft 3y ago
        > yes Hm, source (and binary) uploaded to GitHub this week, but not by original developer.[0] Code last touched on February 18, 2011.[1] On Softpedia there are its screenshots.[2] > I don’t have windows so I haven’t done anything with it yet. Use Wine to launch Windows sotware under Linux.[3] But, as for me, FREE!ship is the better and more advanced than Hullform. [0] https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform [1] https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform/blob/main/Final%20Release/hullform_source.zip https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform/blob/main/Final%20Relea... [2] https://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/Hullform.html https://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/Hullform.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)
moffkalast 3y ago
The best part about Delftship is the library of hulls one can just grab a starting shell from and continue working on it in some other modeling software that isn't a complete pain to work with :P

themerone 3y ago

Chesapeake Light Craft is a great source for supplies and ready to build kits: https://clcboats.com https://clcboats.com

app4soft 3y ago

> DELFTship is the commercial successor, but it's daunting Author of DELFTship is an author of original opensource FREE!ship in Delphi. But after FREE!ship v2.60 project was abandoned on SourceForge.[0] Then FREE!ship was forked and extended into FREE!ship Plus[1] by Associate Prof. Victor Timoshenko[2] (National Univerisity of Shipbuilding, Mykolaiv, Ukraine). FREE!ship Plus v3.50 was the last release of extended fork in Delphi, and it also got a lot of closed source freeware plugins.[3] Since 2015 FREE!ship Plus was forked into FreeShip Plus in Lazarus by Mark Malakanov, initially it was planned as a port for Linux[4]. Project is active on GitHub. Also, there was the ShipCAD — a try by Greg Green to rewrite original FREE!ship to C++/Qt, but it was unfinished and abandoned.[5] [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/freeship https://sourceforge.net/p/freeship [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160927052330/http://www.hydronship.net/index.php?lang=en http://web.archive.org/web/20160927052330/http://www.hydrons... [2] https://linkedin.com/victor-timoshenko-33a053a https://linkedin.com/victor-timoshenko-33a053a [3] http://web.archive.org/web/20160927062856/http://www.hydronship.net/programs.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20160927062856/http://www.hydrons... [4] http://web.archive.org/web/20160822054832/http://hydronship.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=1 http://web.archive.org/web/20160822054832/http://hydronship.... [5] https://github.com/gpgreen/ShipCAD https://github.com/gpgreen/ShipCAD

bcardarella 3y ago
Any change of getting a non-Windows build? I have no idea but I would imagine the % of HN readers that or on MacOS or Linux is high.
- app4soft 3y ago
  Yes, FreeShip Plus in Lazarus already packaged for Linux (see DEB-packages in releases assets).[0] [0] https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus/releases/tag/5.0.36.490 https://github.com/markmal/freeship-plus-in-lazarus/releases...
detourdog 3y ago
Does anyone know of how this compares to Hullform? I have the source for 9.12 that I keep meaning to try to get going.
- app4soft 3y ago
  > I have the source for 9.12 Source code of Hullform?
  - detourdog 3y ago
    yes, I was doing a lot of research in this are 18 or so months ago and I stumbled on it and downloaded it. I don’t have windows so I haven’t done anything with it yet. My memory is that it is very early lofting software and has a reputation for being a close analog to the actual process. I have strange CAD ideas that are closer to lofting than using a mouse. My intention was to look through the source to find the “engine” and work around that.
    - app4soft 3y ago
      > yes Hm, source (and binary) uploaded to GitHub this week, but not by original developer.[0] Code last touched on February 18, 2011.[1] On Softpedia there are its screenshots.[2] > I don’t have windows so I haven’t done anything with it yet. Use Wine to launch Windows sotware under Linux.[3] But, as for me, FREE!ship is the better and more advanced than Hullform. [0] https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform [1] https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform/blob/main/Final%20Release/hullform_source.zip https://github.com/jesshaas/hullform/blob/main/Final%20Relea... [2] https://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/Hullform.html https://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/Hullform.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

moffkalast 3y ago

The best part about Delftship is the library of hulls one can just grab a starting shell from and continue working on it in some other modeling software that isn't a complete pain to work with :P