由Ross Leidy发布的KAYAK FOUNDRY,是很多皮划艇DIY伙伴喜爱的软件。很精确的参数控制,输出断面切片图。 是细条船制作的好工具。
KayakFoundry 1.6 Features:
- Stability Curves
- Multiple views for shaping the kayak in Plan, Profile, and Body
- Supports 1, 2, or 3 cockpits with independent or shared shapes
- Auto-positioned cockpit tracks with changes to center of buoyancy
- Resizable/hideable panels
- Waterlines and buttock lines
- Active Section view shows all section dimensions
- Curve shaping by dragging control points
- Rubber-banding for multiple control point selection
- Keyboard arrow keys provide fine adjustments of control point position.
- Real-time calculation and display of all kayak curves and hydrostatic data
- Real-time location markers indicate critical hydrostatic positions
- Optional auto-roundover of deck at bow and stern
- Sliding position line for viewing cross-sectional shape along the length
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Imperial or Metric units
- Bow Left or Bow Right display
- Printed stations - adjusted for user-specified strip thickness (sample form)
- Printed study drawing (sample study drawings)
- Zoom in/out
- Optional grid with user-specified interval
- Exaggerated curves
- A "notes" panel let you record comments and descriptions of the design
- Integrated drag predictions using John Winter's KAPER algorithm
- Form layout canvas to minimize paper usage
- Parameters for the Broze drag prediction spreadsheet