Sailcut CAD

From Sailcut

Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software which allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets. The original Sailcut was a Basic program developped by Robert Lainé in 1978. The new version, called Sailcut CAD, is written in C++ and is developped jointly by Robert Lainé and Jeremy Lainé. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

Sailcut CAD is able to do cross cut, twist foot cut, vertical cut, mitre cut and radial cut sail design as well as wing sails, all in a number of languages. It also includes a viewer where you can assembled a hull, a rig and a set of sails to see how they match. Sailcut CAD has been successfully used for making sails for racing and cruising yacht as well as for model boats.

1 Requirements
2 Download
3 Documentation
4 Reporting bugs
5 Collection of sail mould profiles
6 See also

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Requirements

Sailcut CAD is written in C++, using Qt as the graphics library. It has been compiled successfully on GNU/Linux, MacOS/X and Windows platforms.

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Download

You can download both source code and binary releases from the Sailcut CAD download page. Windows users have the choice between an installer and a zip archive.

Sailcut CAD is also distributed with Debian GNU/Linux. You can get this package from the Sailcut CAD package page.

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Documentation

To learn how to use Sailcut CAD you should read the Sailcut CAD Handbook.
Another good place to look for information is the Sailcut CAD mailing lists.

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Reporting bugs

You feedback on Sailcut CAD is welcome! If you think you've found a bug, you can check that it has not already been reported on the bug tracker and post a bug report.

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