Can anyone help me with instructions on how to create a boardcad file based on this board.
I have already done the “project on the wall”, trace, stretch and manipulate the pic to the dimensions i want. Then pen and taped together peices of paper but i want to try boardcad.
Any help would be great, and yes i searched this topic but didnt realy find what i need.
All credit for the original shape goes to Neil Purchase Jnr
Hi I used boardcad a lot, so this is my suggestions:
first of all I suggest you to mirror the picture, because sometimes I had problem flipping the board with boardcad.
second I like a lot to have outline and rocker in 2 different pictures.
then you have to open boardcad and then File/new/shortboard
then at the left bottom scale board to your desired dimension
then on outline tab go to file load background image, browse to your outline picture with fins on the left and open
now you have to center your picture, so holding down T for tail and N for nose click exactly on the stinger at tail in the pucture and then the stinger at nose(you can use the scroll on the mouse to zoom in and out.
Move control point to fit the outline
repeat with rocker
check it rendering in 3d
save
have fun…
p.s. even if boardcad give you the option to print outline and rocker, i prefer to use jedail hollow board template maker v2 (google will help you) pay attention to put skin thickness close to 0, then generate template, and finally print with a plotter to full dimension…
**stop copying
get and learn to do your own version of that board **
cheers huie
Hi Huie,
I think is not real copying, even because we are not talking about concave, not talking about edges and so on (this usually make the difference between a good shaper and a shaper)… copying is scanning a board with a cnc probe and replicating it for my point of view. Even coping a board with a Cnc probe and creating 2 machined blank do you really think that giving one to me and one to a “real and famous shaper” for the refinement the result is the same? I think absolutely no, mine could be rated 50 and the one of the shaper 100.
My latest board started from a Mandala Dark Crystal, then I modified it with boardcad with my desired volume and measures, then printed the outline, then i decided to put 4 fins instead of 2 so I modified the tail, the result is a mix between a Tomo Vanguard and a Mandala double raimbow. It’s a copy? I don’t think, but when people ask to me, I reply that is a mix beetween a Tomo and a Mandala, when people ask me how it ride compared to this 2, I replied that I’m no Daniel Thompson or Manuel C. Caro, and for sure their board ride better, but I’m happy with my board.
Thats only my personal thinking…
**w t f you lecturing me
i gave him good advice what makes you lot think you can just swing along and cut all the corners learn properly or fail badly **
cheers huie
hmmmm
Huie, as i said i have made a hand drawn template from this very basic picture already. I just want to play with boardcad. This will be only my second board ever.
Every shaper i have ever met has taken templates from existing boards before.
I am not trying to lecture you at all, but boardcad is a tool to use, and yes I have already played with it and made a few designs, and failed and had a little success.
My plan with this board is to make my own templated for the rocker and the top profile, using a router and a jig i will be mowing down some recycled building eps then laminating 3mm strips to the rails and shaping them by hand with a belt sander.
The eps i will be using a very basic set of tools and a gut feeling. Or maybe ill buy a blank who knows.
Then im going to glass it using my vac bag that i made my first board with. The timber veneer simmons in my profile pic.
So really, i dont think I’m cutting corners any more than my favourite shaper here in qld who had andy irons give him a board once. He took a template off it and based one his models on this.
Nemoz, thanks very much i may ask you for some more tips if i get stuck, much appreciated.
Here is a pic of the simmons getting its last sealer coat.
