Applications, Rhino3D and Grasshopper plugins for marine designers and engineers
Nautcad offers computational design tools for marine professionals to aid the engineering process of boat and yacht design at preliminary and advanced stages. Our software tools are simple, intuitive, cost effective, requiring minimum computational power, deliverying results right away.
Paracraft is a parametric design and analysis plugin for Rhino3D versions 7 and 8. Paracraft is running as a native Rhino3D plugin. There is no need for Grasshopper, scripting or manual manipulation of control points and guide lines. Input is a set of intuitive, unitless, design parameters, typical to planing and semi-planing hard chine hull modeling.
powerHull v2.0 is a Windows compatible desktop application to perform resistance and power requrements prediction. Offering six regression and two semi-empirical “prismatic” resistance prediction methods, powerHull calculates resistance data including air-drag and appendage resistance for hard chine, planing and semi-displacement hulls. Results can be obdained in seconds with minimal computational requirements and straight forward input.
powerHull GH is a Grasshopper plugin for Rhino3D to perform resistance and power requrements prediction within any grasshopper parametric hull model