Design RC hull for boats???

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I'm looking in to getting Solidwork to make my own designs of Radio ControlBoats Hull, I was wondering if Solidwork is capable of doing it?? or iseasier with Autodesk Inventor???

Sporkman · Accepted Answer

You should perhaps contact Grady-White Boats in Greenville, North Carolina

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about this question. They use SolidWorks, but it may be that they have seen a necessity to buy add-on surfacing products to be able to get the results that they need. Now I know RC boats aren't the same animal as what Grady-White designs and produces, and it seems likely that you aren't going to need anywhere near the same amount of finesse in your designs . . . but that's for you to judge and not me. Certainly SolidWorks is capable of doing the kind of "lofting" that is required for decent hull design. I rather think there are products out there that can do about as well for substantiall less money, however. You might want to look at

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Art Woodbury · Answer

might have something for you.Art W.

Mark M · Answer

Franciso,I actually have one or two hulls I can share with ya.Email me privately at.mark(undersore)mos(at)pacbell(dot)netRegardsMark

Rocko · Answer

Boy they sure are not bashfull about what they want for the add on $2995.00I give SW another year and you will not even need surface works.

Deri Jones · Answer

FranscisoWe have used Solidworks and Maxsurf for full size steel and aluminiumvessels for two years - see  for E-drawings of some of theresults. If you are only producing solids - I'd imagine you'd be able to do95% + of it in Solidworks - the main use of Maxsurf is for expanding theplating to 2D for Plasma/Laser cutting - but the shapes on steel/ali aren'tparticularly complex by nature of the material and processes. I also havecustomers using Aero Hydro's Surfaceworks to good result as well.Look at Rhino for doing the surfacing ( - maybe Rhino/Alibrewould give good results at a LOT less than Maxsurf/Solidworks!As for Solidworks / Inventor - 2 years ago SW was way ahead, but things maywell have changed. Solidworks makes hard work of intersections throughimported surfaces - so you will need a good machine to run the system on(mine regularly eats over a Gb of RAM no problem) even if you haverelatively few parts....Best of luck,Deri

MyBoatSank.com · Answer

I noticed you suggested contacting Grady White and was wondering whatyou thought of my Grady White Marlin 28 that recently sank.  Pleasetake a look at my website: me know what you think and thanks.

J.R. · Answer

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