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Best surfboard design software? AKU Shaper? Shape3D?
- Thread starter Homie
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Edit: there’s no “best” IMO, only different.
I typically use both.
Start measuring/“blue printing” your boards - the ones you like as well dislike.
first file should be replicating a physical board you like in Aku IMO.
Open one of their generic shortboard files,
Change length and width
Get thickness n foil right from tip to tip.
set deck n bottom rockers
Delete all slices except center slice
Manipulate that slice until it’s exactly where you want it.
Then, and only then, create new slices out from that one,
15-18 from tail block (between the feet/speed box - or whatever one one’s to call it),
then another 2-3 inches from tail block
then one 12 inch from nose n one 2-3 inch from nose tip.
then, go to new slices and adjust bottom contours. Don’t Fck with the deck line or top of the rails unless it’s extremely subtle.
-this sequence of operations ensures the deck and rail foil along the the length of the board is money. Not doing so - very easy to fxk up and end up w an s-deck, odd humps etc that you’ll end up trying to chase and get rid of.
after every major operation or change, save file as a new version- v1, v2 etc. This way you can go backwards if you do t like something
Does anyone have a version of Aku that works with OSX 10.11.6 ?
@Swallow Tail
Neither the software nor their website states OS requirements so I sent them an email. They said newest version should work w your El Capitan OS. LMK if it doesn’t - i have a disk image of I think it’s version 3.8 that’s 4-5 yrs old n should work. Could put on google drive or sumptin
They sent me an older version and now I'm up and running.
Created my first template and rocker profile yesterday, pretty cool.
When I printed the outline template the youtube vid said the little gaps in the margins are ok - once I laid it out on the blank, obviously not OK! 3 or 4 inches too long. Had to cut the template and then blend the curves.
Are you handshaping or doing CNC cuts?
Awesome
I started out by hand shaping - it is really the best way to learn. N all those skills n knowledge translates to scrubbing cuts. My back is not great so I can’t take being hunched over a planer/all cuts for a number of years now.
blending curves w templates is great, I always enjoyed doing that. It’s important to pay more attention to good n smooth curves rather than fixating on hitting a set numbers. Being a slave to exact numbers will result in weird curves in any design element.