Marine Design

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ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE

AutoShip & AutoYacht

Autoship Systems Corporation

Market Leader in Marine CAD/CAM and

Customized Load Planning Software

* * * * Highly Recommended

News: Get a state-of-the-art yacht design tool for an unbeatable price. AutoYacht for only
$895!

Free!Ship Maxsurf
Formation Design
Surface-modeler for Systems
designing ships
using subdivisiong
Great Interface and
surfaces rather then
large collection of
NURBS to create
tools and add-on
any type of
modules.
hullshape.
* * * Highly Recommended
* * * Highly Recommended

$700 - $6000 depending on

Student version - Free
Open-source All Versions Free number of surfaces
- Maxsurf Academic
(3, 6, unlimited)

MultiSurf ProSurf
Aerohydro New Wave
Systems

Also ProBasic (10

surface version) and
ProChine

* * * Highly Recommended
* Highly Recommended

Full Version: $4000+, Student pricing $795 full version, add on $395 ProBasic
LT (10 surfaces) $1000. available modules available $195 ProChine
 Prolines 98
Vacanti Yacht AeroMarine
Design Software
Research
Good Interface
The TBDP (Tunnel
allows fast 3D
Boat Design
multiview
Program) a proven,
development.
engineering
design/analysis
* * * Highly Recommended
program that
presents predictive
performance results
in easy-to-read,
comparative-style
format.

$150 - $895 depending on Student: $195 - $450 $379

version & dxf/file output
capability.

ShipShape
University of Hull Form
Southampton Blue Peter Marine
Systems
Wolfson Unit for
Marine Technology Freeware Version
6S (Dos) as well as
Professional
Versions.

£1000 $650-$1000 Student: $100-$200

Free Version 6S

Splash
Aerologic
Flow simulation and
performance Faring and 3d
prediction for shaping software for
yachts and ships aerospace and
marine design
 Fastship Carlson Design
Proteus
Engineering Designs and
expands for plotting
the strakes, deck,
bulkheads, and
transoms to build a
hard-chine plywood
or similar boat hull at
any scale

$250 Shareware

Defcar BioDesign &

Engineering Displacement
CAD/CAM for ship Allows creation of 3d
design and Bezier polylines &
modeling. patches, scale and
rotation. Saves in
dxf format.

Freeware

Baseline
Carene 40 / 50
Hydrostatics add-on
for Rhino 2.0 Software to design
hard chined boat
(formerly a hull- hull to be
fairing add-on for constructed in
AutoCad and a plywood or
stand alone sheetmetal.
program)

Free version for non-

commercial use

Modeling & Rendering

Rhino 3D Studio
Nurbs Modeler Rendering &
(not specifically for Animation
marine design - (the benchmark for
but an excellent rendering and
general purpose animation)
3D modeler with
additional 3rd
party marine
plugins available.)