If one were to purchase a hull design program what would be a good choice. I know any software can get extremely expensive so I wouldn’t mind examples of cost effective software as well as efficient industry leading software. Thank you for your time.
If you haven’t tried them, give Freeship a go for modelling, follow up with art of illusion for rendering … both are opensource … both are free … and both have produced remarkable work …
www.freeship.org
www.artofillusion.org
regards, Trevor
I use Vacanti Prolines, which I find very easy indeed to use - and virtually bug free, which is important. The Basic version gives you everything you want unless you are trying to drave CAE or CAM systems. I can’t remember how much it was, but it didn’t cause my rather puritanical soul much grief on the grounds of extravagance. Vacanti are a very small organisation, but service is excellent (much better than you would expect from their public statements).