Why not design both the interior and exterior of a boat using a general purpose CAD program?
The computer-aided boat design market has evolved to the point where there are programs for the design and fairing of the exterior of the hull and there are general purpose CAD programs. The reason for this is that the general purpose CAD programs try to be everything to everybody and have had difficulties in defining and fairing 3D curved surfaces. Although many of the more expensive general purpose CAD programs now contain the basic geometry to model 3D surfaces, they still need to be customized to meet the specific needs of boat and ship designers. In addition, you must add some ability to calculate the hydrostatics and stability of the boat while it’s being designed. Although it is possible to customize a general purpose CAD program, such as AutoCAD, to adapt it to boat design, most of the companies supplying boat design software have been unwilling to tie all of their software to one product. This would mean that their customers would have to buy that one general purpose CAD progr
