I understand your desire to short cut the learning process.
However I think to better understand CAD programs and to use them to make surf craft you need to understand the princables of shaping. Making a template is so easy. If you can't manage to do that you should just buy your boards off the rack. Or have some one like Balsa down in France make it for you. If you want to make it yourself you need to make it yourself. Sure everyone on here can give advice and help you along the way.
Here some help on my part for what it's worth?
Making a fish template instruction:
1. Find suitable material such as 1/8 tempered Masonite or High Density Plastic
2. Cut 6’0” length by 18” wide
3. Stretch out your tape measure the full length of the template material.
4. Mark the edge every 3” and take a carpenters square and make a horizontal line for each mark.
5. Let’s say the proposed Fish is 6’0 in length x 21” wide with a 10” tail block for demonstration.
6. Nose 3;6;12;18;24 - Center 38” from Tail - Tail 3;6;12;18;24
7. Make a dot at the nose .2” from left edge
8. Make a dot at 3” from Nose at 3.625 from left edge
9. 6” from Nose at 5.700
10. 12” from Nose at 8.150
11. 18” from Nose at 9.450
12. 24” from Nose at 10.15
13. 38” from Tail at 10.500 Center point is 2” forward
14. 24” from Tail at 9.8000
15. 18” from Tail at 9.0500
16. 12” from Tail at 8.0500
17. 6” from Tail at 6.7500
18. 3” from Tail at 5.9500
19. Tail Block 0” edge at 4.9500
20. Now rip 6” off this piece (Now you have the base to make your stringer and hot wire guides).
I have a batten that is 8 foot long 1 inch wide and 1/8” that I bend to the points and trace a dark line with a HB pencil number 4
I cut out the template once it’s marked with a band saw. You can use a jig saw if that’s all you have. I leave the pencil line showing while cutting. I true it up with an electric planner. If you’re a bit nervous you can use a sureform with a micro blade or a 40 grit sanding block and true up the template.
This will make you a one sided template that you can flip horizontally to get a full board. Latter I can show you how to make a flip template which is a bit trickier. This type is easy to make and will improve your board building skills.
For the profile you do the same:
Basically it’s your Rocker and stringer line foil:
0 Nose = 3.0 rocker .70 thickness
3” from Nose = 2.2 rocker 1.20 thickness
6” = 1.6 rocker 1.50
12” = .80 rocker 2.00
18” = .40 rocker 2.20
24” = .10 rocker 2.40
39.8” CP = 0.0 rocker 2.50
24” from Tail = .60 rocker 2.20
18” = 1.00 rocker 2.00
12” = 1.50 rocker 1.70
6” = 2.10 rocker 1.30
3” = 2.50 rocker 1.10
0” Tail = 2.90 rocker 0.80
The scrape piece from the template is used for the rocker profile. Lay the profile on your hotwire guide material and trace with a HB #4 Pencil deck first. Then Lower the profile pattern ¾” and trace bottom rocker. This will yield a close tolerance blanks once hot wired and make shaping easier for you to obtain proper thickness foil. You can allow for less thickness if you are skilled with your electric planner?
This should give you some direction. If not I just wasted a bunch of time!
Now go and do the right thing!
Surfding
