Wow, I never knew there were so many cat-sailors who use Cad of some sorts, nice to know I`m in good company ! Good arguments from both sides, I agree with both parties - You can use Cad to automatically update models & calculate all sorts of things easily, but you have to know what the numbers mean & how to interpret whether what you`ve designed will be a good design or a dog. There seems to be heaps of knowledge within this thread - I`m hoping to tap into some of it. Like some of you, I`d love to model sailboats in Cad(for fun only), I work on Autocad & have done solid modelling for architecture, but no mesh modelling yet. I`ve drawn up simple bulkhead frames and would like to "join them together" to form a mesh, for lack of a better description, anybody know how to do this in Autocad ? I`ve tried "ruled surface" but it only lets you use two curves to create the mesh, and not 10 or so that you would typically use in a hull shape. I`ve seen 3dMax used to do what I want, but I`d like to master Autocad 3d more before I move onto greater things. I`ve found this thread to be informative & confrontational, two of the best ingredients - we`d have nothing to discuss if we all agreed. Attached is an reception area I did in Autocad, off topic.
