Hulls Design Software

[Steven]

Has anyone desinged and built a small boat using Hulls Design Software. I have used it to design a small hard chined kayak, and am curious as to how accurate the offset measurements are for laying out the plywood. This is a very cool program.

[jacquesmm]

Please, next time post this at amateurboatbuilding.com. <BR>The Carlson software is good to a point. It develops panels using the paralelograms method which is correct BUT it does not check for developability. That means, it will develop a panel that is not developable. In other words, you will not be able to bend the plywood in shape.<BR>Over the years, we used all kind of software to develop panels: Prolines, Nautilus, Cliff Estes stuff and my own but right now we stick to Rhino. It has great tools to analyze the surface like Gaussian curvature and mapping.<BR>Rhino is based on the Kilgore algorithm.<BR>Check it out at rhino3d.com