General HydroStatics
Ship Stability Software
Command of the Week
(New or interesting aspects of GHS that you may not know about)

ME PLOTSTART /PROFILE & /PLAN
(Requires GHS version 16.50A or later)

Want to add your vessel profile or plan behind your report plots? Yeah, you can do that... just include /PROFILE or /PLAN on your report command line.

That works for ANY report command whose horizontal axis uses vessel longitudinal coordinates. So of course it works with LS /PROFILE:


...and FL /PROFILE:


... and COMP /SKIN /PLAN:


...and so on.

Starting in version 16.50A, you can even include /PROFILE or /PLAN with any custom plot you cook up using the MESSAGE PLOTSTART command. For /POLAR plots, including a profile view doesn't make much sense but /PLAN is permitted, showing the vessel plan sized to fit the outer polar plot circle and its aft end directed toward angle 0:



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