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Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software. It allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets.

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce the release of Sailcut CAD 1.3.4. The main new feature of this release is that it is now possible to specify a scale when printing a sail drawing or developed panels. This should make it easy to print sails to scale for model boats or to use professional printers for full size sails.... read more

Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software. It allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets.

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce the release of Sailcut CAD 1.3.3, just in time for the new sailing season in the Northern Hemisphere! Some of the new features of this release:

* A print preview dialog was added to preview text or drawing output, and it is now possible to select which pages to print.
* A new Mitre2 layout with panels parallel to leech and foot was contributed by Peter Meuse.
* It is now possible export each panel to a separate DXF file.
* The foot hem width can now be adjusted separately from other hem widths.
* A crash in the rare case of perfectly straight luff or leech was fixed.... read more

Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software. It allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets.

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce the release of Sailcut CAD 1.3.1, with the following highlights:

* It is now possible to save sails, a rig with up to 3 spreaders and a simple boat hull. The sails, rig and hull can be assembled into a complete virtual boat.
* The colour scheme of the 3D display has been improved to highlight the different elements of the boat.
* The English and French user manuals have been updated to take into account Sailcut CAD's new features.... read more

Sailcut CAD is a sail design and plotting software. It allows you to design and visualise your own sail and compute the accurate development of all panels in flat sheets.

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.3.0 of its sail plotting package. This release is the result of nearly a year of development and it contains both bug fixes and
a number of new features which users requested.... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.2.4 of its sail plotting package. This release fixes an offset at the tack and clew in the radial cut and comes with an improved version of the Sailcut CAD Handbook. To make installation easier, the Windows version of Sailcut CAD now comes with an installer.

Sailcut CAD 1.2.4 is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.2.3 of its sail plotting package. This release allows you to view the position of maximum depth, entry and exit angles in the sail mould screen. The range of sail dimensions and round limits have also been extended in response to user requests.

Sailcut CAD 1.2.3 is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.2.2 of its sail plotting package. This release fixes a bug in the Jib tack height and also improves the layout of the coordinates when printing developed panels.

Sailcut CAD 1.2.2 is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.2.1 of its sail plotting package. This release fixes two bugs which were reported by Sailcut CAD users. It also includes improvements such as the display of the outline of the deck to visualise the position of the sail and a new printout of the panels with coordinates of key points for hand plotting like the aging Sailcut4.

Initial French and Spanish versions of the Sailcut CAD Handbook are now available, although there is still some work to do on both.... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.2.0 of its sail plotting package. Sailcut CAD's code has undergone a major overhaul for this release and has been ported to Qt 4. This release also features a number of improvements requested by users such as displaying the coordinates of the sail's corners in the Dimensions screen, better support for drawing kites and a new printout mode for users plotting sails by hand.... read more

Sailcut CAD is now distributed with Debian GNU/Linux. You can get the Debian packages for Sailcut CAD from the package page:

http://packages.debian.org/sailcut

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.1 of its sail plotting package. This release features several new languages including Russian (thanks to all helpers of the sailing community) and a Wing option for designing kites. The limits checker has been modified to take into account feedback from users, allowing a wider range of sail shapes to be designed. The sail mould screen has been re-designed to provide additional facility like controlling the foot shape which is the central seam of a kite wing, and allowing the use of negative camber in the leech area mostly for fully battened sails or kite wing. Be very careful with this feature on regular sails, the leech may flap.... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 1.0 of its sail plotting package. This release features several languages (thanks to all helpers of the sailing community) the radial cut option and a revised limits checker allowing a wider range of sail shape to be designed. The printout facility is now active. The sail dimensions screen has been re-designed to provide additional computation facility and the export to Carlson plotters is now operational for all sail layouts. Sailcut CAD uses a preference file to store user settings such as preferred language and most recently used sails.... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 0.7.0 of its sail plotting package. This release features a redesigned user-interface, export to Carlson plotters and a rig viewer where you can assemble several sails. Sailcut CAD now also uses a preference file to store user settings such as preferred language and most recently used sails.

Sailcut CAD 0.7.0 is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=242143... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 0.6.1 of its sail plotting package. This release includes new checks on the sail dimensions, better documentation and a number of cross-platform compatibility fixes. Both a Norwegian and a German translation of the user interface have been added.

Sailcut CAD 0.6.1 is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=230346... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 0.6.0 of its sail plotting package. This release adds the ability to specify and to plot hems around the sail panels. DXF file export has also been improved and both a Dutch and an Italian translation have been added.

Sailcut CAD 0.6.0 is available here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=209155

Documentation and API:
http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 0.5.5 of its sail plotting package. This release includes big performance improvements to the sail layout code and the ability to perform a horizontal sail cut. Other major changes include internationalisation support (a French translation is included) and DXF file export.

Sailcut CAD 0.5.5 is available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=195010... read more

The Sailcut CAD project is pleased to announce release 0.5.0 of its sail plotting package. This release brings a number of improvements both to the sail layout code and to the user interface. File output has also been improved, making it possible to output the developped sail's panels to XML or plaintext files.

Sailcut CAD 0.5.0 is available here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=183524... read more

The sail plotting package Sailcut CAD continues to move forward with its 0.4.0 release. To the existing OpenGL shaded view of the 3D sail, this new release adds the ability to view the flat panel development of the sail.

The next milestones include:
* different types of sail cuts
* printing support

Sailcut CAD 0.4.0 is available at :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=143075

The sail plotting package Sailcut CAD continues to move forward with its 0.3.10 release :
* handling of twist for the sail
* improved view controls
* OpenGL shading of the sail

The next milestones include:
* panel development of the sail
* different types of sail cuts

Sailcut CAD 0.3.10 is available at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60429&release_id=128793

With its 0.3.9 release, the sail plotting package Sailcut CAD is moving along nicely as a number of milestones have been achieved:
* all major components of the GUI are in place
* non-OpenGL and OpenGL display of the sail work
* Sailcut produces a correct cross-cut layout
* XML file i/o of the sail definition works
* XML output of the sail's points works

The next milestones include:
* handling of twist for the sail
* panel development of the sail... read more