> 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]
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.
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.
I haven't done anything other than download the source from somewhere.
I'm still getting other things in place before I need to look into running the software.
I will probably try to do a new build. Per the Github suggestions.
I need to start at a pretty raw level. I think Freeship might be too evolved for me. I definitely want to work with parametrics and I can't remember if hullform is parametric.
I have found the Boatdesign.net community pretty unhelpful, excepting a few members.
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
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160927052330/http://www.hydrons...
[2] https://linkedin.com/victor-timoshenko-33a053a
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20160927062856/http://www.hydrons...
[4] http://web.archive.org/web/20160822054832/http://hydronship....
[5] https://github.com/gpgreen/ShipCAD