[HN Gopher] FreeShip Plus in Lazarus - an open-source software f...
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       FreeShip Plus in Lazarus - an open-source software for boat and
       hull design
        
       Author : app4soft
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2023-07-10 17:58 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | whatscooking wrote:
       | Oceangate definitely did not use
        
       | starkparker wrote:
       | 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/ and their YouTube channel
       | https://www.youtube.com/@armylakeboatco.
       | 
       | If you're looking for community, see the boatdesign.net forums:
       | https://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/ or r/boatbuilding.
       | 
       | DELFTship is the commercial successor, but it's daunting:
       | https://www.delftship.net/
        
         | themerone wrote:
         | Chesapeake Light Craft is a great source for supplies and ready
         | to build kits: https://clcboats.com
        
         | moffkalast wrote:
         | 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
        
         | app4soft wrote:
         | > _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
         | 
         | [1]
         | http://web.archive.org/web/20160927052330/http://www.hydrons...
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         | [2] https://linkedin.com/victor-timoshenko-33a053a
         | 
         | [3]
         | http://web.archive.org/web/20160927062856/http://www.hydrons...
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         | [4]
         | http://web.archive.org/web/20160822054832/http://hydronship....
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         | [5] https://github.com/gpgreen/ShipCAD
        
           | bcardarella wrote:
           | 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 wrote:
             | 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...
        
       | teruakohatu wrote:
       | I found some screenshots of the output of the application here:
       | 
       | https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/freeship-plus-in-lazarus-...
        
       | biomcgary wrote:
       | I just finished building two small boats (1 sheet of plywood
       | each, plus odds and ends) with my preteen sons using a VERY
       | simple plan. Only 3-4 hours of work, plus drying time. I'll check
       | this out when we're ready to upgrade.
        
       | randomdrake wrote:
       | Sounded like a neat project but seemed light on documentation.
       | 
       | Had to go back to 2015 in the Internet Archive[0] to actually
       | find a copy of the website mentioned.
       | 
       | The site is in Russian but Google Translate seems to do an okay
       | job of bringing it into English[1].
       | 
       | [0] -
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20150223174714/http://www.hydron...
       | 
       | [1] - https://web-archive-
       | org.translate.goog/web/20150223174714/ht...
        
         | app4soft wrote:
         | > _The site is in Russian_
         | 
         | The site was in Russian and English, but it was a site of
         | Ukrainian maintainer of _FREE!ship Plus_ , see details and link
         | to page in English in my previous comment.[0]
         | 
         | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36670328#36671965
        
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