last updated: 25-Mar-2004
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Welcome to deadweight.com. This site is the home of the Deadweight marine model viewing application.
What's Deadweight? Deadweight is a FREE graphical utility for working with General Hydrostatics (GHS™) geometry files. The goals of the software are as follows:
• Provide 2-D and 3-D views of the vessel data contained in the geometry files.
• Allow for exporting to different modeling and drawing software packages (Rhino™, AutoCAD™, etc...)
• Easy to use for both Naval Architects and Vessel Owners. Deadweight is under development in an early beta phase. PLEASE download a copy and provide lots of feedback on bugs or wishlist items to support@deadweight.com

NEWS

25 March 2004 - Removed the import GHS plug-in for Rhino3 from this web site. This plug-in has been improved and is included in the Rhino bonus tools package.

30 December 2003 - I've somewhat succeeded in binding the OpenNurbs toolkit with Python. PyOpenNurbs is in a very early stage, but appears to be working.

3 December 2003 - Version 0.2 of the import GHS plug-in is ready for download. You can find it on my Rhino Dev page. This version fixes a bug where the plug-in just gives up importing when an error occurs.

17 November 2003 - Version 0.1 of the import GHS plug-in is ready for download. You can find it on my Rhino Dev page.

12 November 2003 - I'm getting pretty close to completing a Rhino plug-in for directly reading GHS geometry files in Rhino. I want to support both versions 2 and 3 of Rhino, so it is taking a little extra effort to make sure everything works. Stay tuned.

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