I found that the software I use didn't have a feature that I was brutally trying to simulate manually using DelftShip... so I just created my own program.

Right now it does...

·        Hydrostatic calculations based on the weights and sail forces and spits out the depth, pitch and roll angles to balance those forces.

·        It can handle an unlimited number of hulls (although two is all I've tried on it)

·        It can handle an unlimited number of forces at any location and with any vector.

·        It uses the exported dxf 3D mesh option from DelftShip for the hull shapes.  Its definitely NOT a hull editor. 

·        If you load only half the model (or quarter for a Proa) from DelftShip, you can mirror it about the XZ and/or YZ planes.

·        The UI then allows you to move the hulls around relative to each other and the 0,0,0 point.

·        UI allows entry of the force vectors.

·        Its brain dead easy to use... I can suck in two hulls (lw, ww) Proa hulls, add forces and spit out answers in less than five minutes.  It save things in projects to be recalled later.  

·        It uses the mesh as generated via DelftShip so its quite easy to export in Low and Highest resolution modes for doing fast trade studies with the Low and then doing a final Highest resolution mode.

·        A "Project" can hold multiple hulls and forces that are disabled so quick trade studies of many different boat configurations under varied loading conditions can be handled quickly.

·        It does show an image of the hulls, but right now, it doesn't do the 3D rotation.  It will only show the three orthogonal views.

It does not...

• It does not calculate any hydrodynamic forces... Sorry.  I haven't quite got my head around Navier-Stokes yet.  I'm working on it.  :)

If I made this available, is this something other people (you all) might want to use?  It will take me a little time to polish it and come up with a written tutorial.  But if there is no interest, I'll just dink with it for my needs.