[Angelus]

We really should set up a poll for the better way to do things 2D or 3D.... But!!! I may have missed what you meant,, The drawings above surely thos ar hand sketches not don in CAD at all... If So I admire you!!! Give me a computer and a decenct cad package I can do anything.. Give me a Pencil and ask me to sketch..well,,, you might as well give the pencil to my grandson!!! i'm sure he'd do a better job.. I would give ANYTHING to be able to sketch.. I am VERY well aware of what sells a Mega Yacht and motor yacht I have all these ideas in my head for concept designs and no way to unlock them and put them on paper.. Doing this even in CAD is difficult to start with concept.. I posted some concept jpegs of Lady Lola , Ambrosiana And I think Pegasus yesterday.. I would love to be able to draw like that!! And if you can,, well youi got my vote.. Sorry i9f I miss understood.. Still cant make out wherte you stretched the line.. that 3D model above on my last reply would take 10 seconds to edit anything..Of coarse its not a yacht,,but its work.. only thing is I cant use my imagination now

As for Exhausts..I spent 5 years designing and building Avon Sea Riders... the big ones.. 6mtrs plus.. for all the VP engines we installed , I blanked off the exhaust port in the Out drive and fed it thru the transom... I love the sound.. 235 twin evinrudes on an 8.5 mtr searider sounds even better at full revs doing 75 knots.. but they are working boats not pleasure as you designing

[AMG]

I have now extended the boat further if you go back and have a look. This is Computer Aided Design, but not CAD/CAM. It is a vector program that can be scaled to any size with perfect accuracy eventhough I am adding colours and shadows to use it as an illustration at the same time...

[dccd]

Looks good Lars, I have enjoyed this site and many of the designs for years. I can express that my own experience has benefited from being a fast perspective sketcher! Naturally I have moved along with the 3/D CAD tools since their widespread use. Even as a daily user of 3/D I am still sometimes stifled trying to put the "organicness"? of a hand drawn design into a computer, something is always lost it seems. This is one of my old favorite 30 meter Jet boat designs, I keep putting off making a 3/D but may attempt soon. Open to comments from this group

[KCook]

Well, the over/and/under fin theme at the back of the superstructure seems a bit heavy handed to me. At least for as classy a design as this one. Same fins might be just the ticket on a more radical design. The proportions seem very good to me. Also like the generous bow deck very much. Hate it when designers force the superstructure as far up into the bow as possible.

Kelly Cook

[dccd]

Thanks Kelly, I have forgotten what the client brief was but it is radical. I fought with the massing, still a tad high sheer. Like all my past designs, I would like to touch it up one day. It would be difficult to model, you need the input to be so free flowing like they do with CGI animation these days. Some of the new animated characters seem almost living. I think the process to model animated figures involve a physical sculpture which is laser scanned in. The ultimate Yacht design CAD system would allow us to handle virtual clay, maybe fair out the flow. Probably require VR gloves for a direct connection to the stylist. Until that, the CAD models are somewhat translated form the designers vision.

[dccd]

I did develop that GTMY profile/plan into a 3/D composite image using the actual CAD wireframe of machinery and hand drawing over the perspective. Was used for a BI advertisement but helped to define the various shapes. When I begin to model this I will start a new thread to follow its evolution.

[kach22i]

Nice work dccd, has a very artistic feel to it yet in a practical sense.