To view the shape of your design, you need to display contours on the hull such as sections, waterlines, and buttock lines. These contours are defined by a grid, which contains spaced longitudinal, vertical and transverse coordinates. These define the locations of the sections, waterlines and buttock lines respectively.

·   Choose Grid Spacing from the Data menu

·   Click on the Add button

A dialog will appear allowing you to specify the number of sections to be added

·   Type in 10 to add 10 sections

·   Click OK

This will return you to the Grid Spacing dialog box.

·   Click on the Space button

The Spacing dialog will appear. The default setting, which you will use, is to evenly space the sections along the DWL.

·   Click OK

This will return you to the Grid Spacing dialog box.

·   Click OK

You will now see your grid displayed behind the design in the Profile window.

The Stations (or Buttocks, Waterlines, Diagonals) can be sorted according to their position by clicking the “Sort” button. Repeated clicks will toggle between sort ascending and sort descending.

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