Fabric™ Sail Design
Sail CAD Module
Design powerful sails quickly !
This fundamental module allows you to define the shape and the panel layout of your sails.
A high level of control and usability allows you to draw good-looking,powerful sails. Manipulation with both the mouse and numerical fields provides speed and precision in your sail design.
Drawings workshop
- Carry out the sail's layout drawing.
- Manage your print settings.
Shape workshop
- Design the sail's shape by defining its triangulation, its form, its twist and its volume.
- Constantly control the sail's exact measurements.
- Large range of curves types [ spline, elliptic, parabolic, bezier curves]
- Horizontal sections numbers configuration.
- Gaff sails management.
- Working on the Shape with the mouse and digitally.
- Broadseams values representation in real time on a reference seam plan.
- Luff roach representation in real time before stacking.
- 3D hidden sides representation.
Finishing workshop
- Add in numerous finish work such as reef bands, visualization stripes, telltales, windows and marks on the sail.
Battens workshop
- Add and manage battens for the sail.
- Define negative hollow between battens.
Seams workshop
- Create different kinds of seam plans : cross cut, fan cut, parallel,
- Possibility to move seams zones without the loss of seams plans.
- Radial and manual.
Reinforcements workshop
- Create any type of reinforcement : fingers, blocks, stripes, doubling patches and straps.
Threads workshop
- Use beneficial sketch lines to adapt the positioning and distribution of your threads according to the sail's stress patterns.
Calculation workshop
- Control the 2D flat panel settings for the sail.
Results workshop
- Once the shape and seams layout has been done, this workshop allows checking the resulting panels, manually modifying broadseam values and warp sides, if necessary.
- Export the sail into various professional file formats : Carlson, DXF AAMA, Fabric or Lectra.
Materials workshop
- Store material properties and position them on each panel.
Nesting workshop
- Optimize panel nesting on the working fabric.
- Increase efficiency by using the automatic nesting feature.
