Latest News:-
Feb 2010
SurfPlan™ and GliderPlan™ Professional v2010 are released, with plenty of new features to improve your kite and paraglider designs, and save you time.
Sep 2008
GliderPlan demonstrated at Le Coupe Icare, in St Hilaire, France
Mar 2007
The new paraglider design software, GliderPlan™ 2007, is demonstrated at the 2007 World PG Championships in Manilla, Australia.
Wind sports are a rapidly growing area, and the
technology of designing kites quickly and accurately is,
more and more, a critical part of the industry.
technology of designing kites quickly and accurately is,
more and more, a critical part of the industry.
SurfPlan™
SurfPlan™, including GliderPlan™, is the world's most widely used specialised professional CAD application for designing power kites and paraglider canopies. SurfPlan has a solid track record in the industry, and is in commercial use for many types of wings :-
- Bridled surf kites (BOW/SLE)
- Traditional ILE surf kites (C-kites)
- Paragliders
- Ram-air Snow kites
- Parachutes
- Buggy kites
- Hybrid designs
Specific features :-
- Easy to use interface
- Fast operation - generate plans immediately
- Professional design and workflow features
- Surfplan™ Professional works together with all common CAD software, including AutoCAD, Rhino, Solidworks, PatternSmith, TurboCAD and more.
- Integrated 3d model viewer and 2d panel viewer
- FEM modelling of in-flight sled canopy curve
- Automatic force-balancing for correct bridle shapes
- Surface unrolling algorithms, including advanced skin tension options
- Visual designs on output panels
- Surfplan™ Professional supports import/export integration with many CAD programs, nesting software and CNC manufacturing processes
- Hundreds of easily accessible parameters