Sailcut CAD

Every heavy industry is fitted with machines specialized in precision cutting, welding and construction. All of them can be connected to a computer and with the help of the right applications you can create a design and give direct orders. Sailcut CAD specializes in boat design and with its intuitive design anyone can take a shot at boat building.

The application's interface is pretty simple and structured in multiple windows so you can simultaneously view and edit all components you need. Each section is fitted with a preview area where you can rotate and move the specific object, as well as a different tab for wireframe view.

It's a long way before actually viewing a 3D representation of your whole design. This is because you need to separately work on sails, hulls and rigs, while assembling them in a different viewer. This might create a little confusion at first, especially that there aren't any hints or tooltips along the way.

On the other hand, little effort is required and you can design any type of boat, while not all elements are required for the final form. Each one is equipped with an abundance of dimension specifications. It's the only way to give new shapes to your objects and changes are not displayed in real time, so the overall process is a little time-consuming.

Remember to save all your project files, because it's the only way you can assemble them. They are all piled up in a similar window, with a large preview area, but this time you get to handle several other controls as well.

Multiple tabs delimit parts to carefully manage each one. Unfortunately, you can't simply position parts using your mouse to drag them, and you need to specify values on all three axes to position an element and without real time feedback, this too becomes frustrating.

Representations are decent, even though there are no quality options, with the possibility to switch to a wireframe view. When you're done, export settings can be used to generate DXF, SVG or TXT files, hand-plotting format and a few more.

All things considered, we can safely state that Sailcut CAD is not the best when it comes to boat building, with a little accommodation required and fair amount of patience. The idea behind the concept is neat, but the poor implementation of features make the overall process time-consuming and difficult to design unique schematics.