aku shaper problems

hello again! i have the aku shaper trial seeing as though i dont have the money at the moment to purchase the full thing. it has worked wonders for me on the previous templates i have made, but im on my 6th board now and am designing a performance fish, and i cant seem to make a nice swallow tail with the trial software, i have watched hours of tutorials on how to do it as well. im making a board is resmbelance to the CI pod or the LOST grocket, and really need to make the swallow nice on it. its for a buddy of mine as a going away gift. its going to be 5’10, 20",2 3/8. if any one has had experiance with this problem or has a template they wouldnt mind me remodling into these boards listed i would be greatful, but im not expecting the second option haha, just looking for some help!

thanks again!

 

richard

(heres a pic of the grocket & POD)


I've always had the same problem with aku shaper....I use an old template from my old boards or friends boards that I've copied for my Swallow tails

http://www2.swaylocks.com/node/1028082

That thread has some great (definitive?) ways to get a swallow curve. Using the nose curve seemed pretty logical.

I don't think aku does fishy tails, just leave it square.

Think about the function. I remember Tomo saying he used a brewer gun template to get the tail shape for a swallow on a fish type board for big waves.

You could always visit the local surf shop with an A4 pad and a pencil!

Or copy a swallow picture into aku or some other software and copy one side of the curve.

some people, including myself have also traced the arc of fins to create a retro fish tail.. just another Idea

Seems it would be easier to design something that will "enclose" the butt crack you want, provide outside rails that satisfy your tastes, then hand shape the butt crack, which I don't guess most mechanical shaping machines will accommodate anyway.  ONly thing you'll lose is the total volume calculation will be off, and the resulting center of mass incorrect by a small amount.

But remember, once you're planing, these are largely irrelevant.  Design of planing hulls using displacement-oriented software leaves me wondering, sometimes. Though I've played with Aku and at one time thought I had it pretty well, never took it to actual shaping.  I don't make so many boards that I "need" to have someone else do my job for me.  Others may vary.

hey thanks alot guys! i went into a board shop today and traced my swallow here is a pic of the outline of my board, looks a little weird due to the fact that nothing has been shaped yet! also the swallow tail looks off but its the perseption of the grass!

5’10,21,2 3/8 dim’s

thanks again!

richard

 

hello

i just downloaded aku shaper software. I was wondering if someone found or knows of a tutorial to start learning it. I have no experience with cad sw.

Thanks a lot!

pempe

Hey there,

I can't get Aku to load up on Vista.

I have followed all the tips on getting Aku to run on my computer but nothing will work. I have uninstalled Aku and board cad from the java control panel icon.

 

Then  I uninstalled java and reinstalled it every which way , online offline the x64 version(which didn't work) I uninstalled the Aku from java control panel each time as, even though it wasn't runnable, it was still registering on the temp file section of this control panel.

 

I'm thinking of making a partition an loading up linux to give that a try, but i imagine that is easier said than done.

 

I am looking at Shape3Dlite but it has limitations such as no 3D! and I can't import a board photo and match it's outline. Board cad is good but i can't manipulate the photo to land at the nose and tail of the current .brd in design. Aku is very easy to use, how can I get it?

 

 

This following information was one of the many differing information strings presented in the "details" section of the information box that informed me that Aku would not be loading up. Do these strings mean anything that can be easily fixed?

 

Next I got this

 

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

 

<jnlp spec="1.0+" href="akushaper.jnlp" codebase="http://akushaper.com/software">

 

  <information>

 

    <title>AKU SHAPER</title>

 

    <vendor>AKU SHAPER</vendor>

 

    <association mime-type="application-x/brd" extensions="brd"/>

 

    <shortcut>

 

      <desktop/>

 

    </shortcut>

 

    <homepage href="http://akushaper.com"/>

 

    <description>AKU SHAPER</description>

 

    <description kind="short">AKU SHAPER</description>

 

    <icon href="../lib/akubird_64_64.gif"/>

 

    <offline-allowed/>

 

  </information>

 

  <security>

 

    <all-permissions/>

 

  </security>

 

  <resources>

 

    <j2se version="1.6+"/>

 

    <extension name="jogl" href="http://download.java.net/media/jogl/builds/archive/jsr-231-webstart-current/jogl.jnlp"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/shaper.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/akuhelp.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/TableLayout.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/Jama-1.0.1.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/jh.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/swingmiglayout.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/itext-1.4.3.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/groovy-1.0.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/akushaper-encryption.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/akushaper-licensing.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/commons-codec-1.1.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/commons-lang-2.1.jar"/>

 

    <jar href="../lib/version.jar"/>

 

  </resources>

 

  <application-desc main-class="hui.surf.editor.ShaperFrame2"/>

 

</jnlp>

 

 

 

 

&

 

 

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

 

            at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

 

            at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

 

            at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

 

            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

 

            at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeApplication(Unknown Source)

 

            at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.executeMainClass(Unknown Source)

 

            at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.doLaunchApp(Unknown Source)

 

            at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.run(Unknown Source)

 

            at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no jogl in java.library.path

 

            at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

 

            at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)

 

            at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraryInternal(NativeLibLoader.java:189)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader.access$000(NativeLibLoader.java:49)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader$DefaultAction.loadLibrary(NativeLibLoader.java:80)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader.loadLibrary(NativeLibLoader.java:103)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader.access$200(NativeLibLoader.java:49)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader$1.run(NativeLibLoader.java:111)

 

            at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.NativeLibLoader.loadCore(NativeLibLoader.java:109)

 

            at com.sun.opengl.impl.windows.WindowsGLDrawableFactory.<clinit>(WindowsGLDrawableFactory.java:60)

 

            at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)

 

            at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)

 

            at javax.media.opengl.GLDrawableFactory.getFactory(GLDrawableFactory.java:106)

 

            at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.chooseGraphicsConfiguration(GLCanvas.java:520)

 

            at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.<init>(GLCanvas.java:131)

 

            at javax.media.opengl.GLCanvas.<init>(GLCanvas.java:90)

 

            at hui.surf.D.B.J(Unknown Source)

 

            at hui.surf.D.B.<init>(Unknown Source)

 

            at hui.surf.D.A.û(Unknown Source)

 

            at hui.surf.D.A.<init>(Unknown Source)

 

            at hui.surf.editor.T.<init>(Unknown Source)

 

            at hui.surf.editor.ShaperFrame2.<init>(Unknown Source)

 

            at hui.surf.editor.ShaperFrame2.main(Unknown Source)

 

            ... 9 more

 

 

 

Cheers-J

IT’S Alive!

 

 I did a few windows updates recently and I thought I’d try again.

First, I opened java up in the control panel and hit >general > settings>delete settings. Then I went to the old email and downloaded.

B4 i had always gone into Control panel> java>general>view>akushaper , right click>delete

like they tell you on the site and in the forum and I was here again and again.

So i was lucky I didn’t have to try that security level stuff, Phew.

But, b4 I was using Norman security and now I’m running windows

security essentials.

I have no idea which path or update was the difference between this success and the previous failure but I hope this works for somebody cause it was so easy.

 

I can’t believe it I went

Stoked

-J