SailMaker provides the tools you need to produce top quality sail designs in
less time.
The SailMaker range of programs covers everything from simple headsail and mainsail design to sophisticated mould shapes and panel layouts for any type of sail.
- The practical approach ensures that the user makes savings in design and production time and materials.
- All of this is achieved with the use of an accurate, surface based, three dimensional model and exceptionally easy to use graphical tools.
- Interfacing to most plotters and cutters and also stress analysis, VPP and CAD programs, ensures maximum compatibility.
- Simple scaling and advanced fairing techniques are available to help you make faster sails.
Combining ease of use with the speed of the Macintosh and Windows based computers, SailMaker has brought within reach of every sail loft, the opportunity to benefit from computer aided design and manufacturing techniques without the need for a large capital investment.
Finally, and most importantly, the programming team at SailScience Ltd have, since 1983, worked very closely with existing customers to ensure the software meets their requirements in the most practical and productive fashion.
This intimate liaison has resulted firstly in the most useful and well proven sail design and production software available with over 150 satisfied users worldwide. Secondly it demonstrates the continued interest, development and support available from SailScience.
Features:
- Realistic sample designs, practical help and 150 active users worldwide.
- Constant updating and development with user newsletter.
- Integrated 3D sail design, fairing, paneling and printing/plotting of offsets.
- Gaff sails included at no extra cost.
- Incorporating twist and viewing from any angle.
- Chord, contour, net, surface, rendered and panel lines for viewing.
- Unrestricted number of shaping chords, elliptical or aerofoil.
- Simple or sophisticated mould shapes and paneling.
- Input and alteration of shaping by mouse or keyboard, in absolute or % values.
- Automatic metric, imperial and percentage conversions.
- Boat and rig setup with spreaders, tack height and spinnaker pole.
- Girth, area and corner angle calculation.
- Short or full length battens.
- Extensive sail markings of reefs, cunninghams, telltales, draft stripes and windows.
- Backstay feature for high roach mainsails.
- Seam editing of panels.
SailMaker takes advantage of the Macintosh's superior user environment, allowing a sail designer to become an efficient user in a matter of hours, without requiring any keyboard skills.
Unlike the confusing 'numbers based' systems, SailMaker consistently
presents you with your choice of clear, accurate graphical displays to
design your sail shapes by use of the mouse. Virtually unlimited numbers
of shaping chords and precise digital information is always shown, giving
you complete design control. Chords may be elliptical in shape and most
importantly they incorporate 'twist'.
Existing successful designs may be rescaled by simply altering the luff, leech and foot or LP dimensions. Then alterations made to edge shaping, battens and production card. Full details may be printed at any time.
Positions of battens, windows and even detailing like telltales and camber stripes may be determined.
SailMaker is supplied with several well proven sample sail designs and full support from SailScience. Once you have achieved the desired mould shape the next phase is panel development. SailMaker's PatternMaker module allows you to develop panel layouts, without placing restrictions on the regions or patterns you create. You choose material, seam and panel widths as appropriate then SailMaker accurately and swiftly develops the individually shaped 2D panels.
SailMaker LE is a version of SailMaker that allows you to design and manufacture sails from a set of standard moulds supplied by SailScience.
The SailScience Mould Library is an extensive library of over 120 sail designs, covering mainsail, headsail, gaff, asymmetric, symmetric and dinghy designs.
SailMaker LE offers
- Access to a world class sail design database. Production proved race and cruise designs.
- Fully complete designs in all respects, ready to make sails. Ideal for giving a new loft a quality advantage.
- No extra cost, SailMaker LE is included free with SailMaker. Pay for designs only as you use them.
- The Mould Library continues to develop and expand under SailScience.
SailMaker and its associated range of design and production tools offer unsurpassed ease of use and accurate 3D modelling of sail shapes.
SailMaker is the official design system of Lidgard Sails, the world's fourth largest group of sail lofts, and more than 150 users can testify to SailMaker's effectiveness for all types of sail design and manufacture including ...
"SailMaker is the most complete sail design software on the market no question. It's a very sophisticated, but easy to use program". Dave Armitage, Sail Coordinator America True, America's Cup Syndicate
"This is exciting. The best
design software available".
Mats Johansson, Gran Segel AB
System Requirements
Mac OS:
Any
Macintosh or Macintosh clone computer
4MB RAM
Hard Disk
System 7 or later, includes MacOS 8 & 8.5
Optional Plotter & Cutter Links
Contact SailScience or its distributors for information on available Plotters
and Cutters.
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