Hull design software freeware

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Carlson Design Designs and expands for plotting the strakes, deck, bulkheads, and transoms to build a hard-chine plywood or similar boat hull at any scale. Ship Surface-modeler for designing ships using subdivisiong surfaces rather then NURBS to create any type of hullshape.

Hydrostatics add-on for Rhino 2. TouchCad Fast and precise push-pull free form 3D modeling. TouchCAD makes it easy to add and delete control points anywhere on the surface. Nurbs Modeler not specifically for marine design - but an excellent general purpose 3D modeler with additional 3rd party marine plugins available.

Important: We provide these links for your use, but are not endorsing any of the programs. The recommendations come from informal conversations, web site input, and word of mouth. It is a simple, interactive, visual 3-d hull design Windows program for modeling and developing panels for plywood or metal chine construction.

Create patterns for stem, stern, bulkheads, up to 10 chines, and up to 8 frames for construction. Includes sample designs and Word 6.

When you click on any one of the hull types, you will immediately get a 3D wireframe hull model on the screen. Now, you can define important hull parameters like surface contours , hydrostatics , section area curve , etc. Now, to add subdivisions , compartments , and, deck , go to the Subdivision and Compartments section. This section is also quite easy as you just need to select the element that you want to add and provide its dimensions and exact location.

This software also has a dedicated Analysis and output section through which you can view every important statistics about the boat design like its area , volume , angle , etc.

This software is perfectly suitable for both professionals and students who want to design ships and boats. Along with designing the boat, you can also perform basic hydrostatic and resistance calculations and adjust hull frame parameters like displacement and longitudinal center of buoyancy. According to the provided parameters, you get a 3D model of the boat. On the 3D boat model, you get a lot of nodes to make changes on the design of the boat.

To make changes, you can simply grab nodes and move using the mouse. However, if you want to make precise changes, then first click on a node to open a popup window. In the popup window, you get X , Y , and Z coordinate fields to provide new coordinates for the node. Apart from reshaping the boat design, you can also view the boat hull from various positions using Front , Left , Right , Top , and Bottom tools. Plus, you can also convert boat structure to wireframe , shade , Gauss , zebra type to analyze the structure.

Along with hull designing, you can also design Keel and Rudder of the boat using the Keel and Rudder Wizard. Once the design gets completed, you can check the integrity of the boat structure by clicking on the Check Model option that shows all leak points of your boat structure.