Software

Yes Viacad can save iges and step and acis, still early to say but at least for some one looking to start serious 3d modeling this is a very complete software for a good price i may even get one to use it as a translator for sat solids. send emails to the guy that wrote the sofwtare and ask him for demo they don't have a demo available (for viacad) yet,

http://www.punchcad.com/products/ViaCADDataSheet.pdf

tim.olson@punchsoftware.com
he wrote cobalt (or most of it)

cheers

Nice Water

Raggi_Thor said:

Regarding Maxwell Render,
Novedge has a nice gallery of examples. If you find "Boat" in the pull down list, you get this one :

Click to expand...

And that's the kind of "water" that would be remarkably variable with coloration, lighting and reflective surface effects.

Chris

Thanks, CGN.
Chris, didn't you like it?

Oh... I liked it a lot. Is that water surface variable and adjustable as a separate surface when in render mode? Does it have the capacity to behave as a water body and stay out of the form that would be illustrated as the boat?

there are many sofwares more helpfull with users, i have known about Nupas_Cadmatic is for structural modelings, Piping and Electrically field,
Paramarine is for design and calculating on Warship and Submarine
and Napa is the best software for Hull design and calculatings.

Testing Flamingo nXt

Next version of Flamingo from McNeel can be downloaded and tested.
Works easily with Rhino.
Don't find water, so this is just a flat plate and a background photo: