Aircraft Modeling Software

With SharkCAD Pro-AP (formerly Shark FX-AP) at your fingertips, professional 3D models can be created accurately and easily, at a fraction of the cost of comparable premiere CAD programs. The robust 3D modeling capabilities include Mesh Modeling, Solid Modeling and Surface Modeling, which allow you to easily render airplane prototypes and anything else that requires high-end visuals. SharkCAD Pro-AP is perfect for engineers, drafters, artists, scientists and hobbyists looking to turn a concept into reality. SharkCAD Pro-AP combines AeroPack with SharkCAD Pro v12. AeroPack is a collection of unique drawing tools created specifically for airplane design. Tools such as Create Airfoil, Wing Planform and Polyconic Surfaces allow airplane components to be 3D modeled with a matter of clicks. The Import Airplane tool allows users to import geometry from Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA) into SharkCAD Pro-AP as a 3D model.

SharkCAD Pro-AP + AAA

Bundling SharkCAD Pro-AP with AAA will save you hours on geometry input and allow you to quickly and easily visualize your airplane model in 3 dimensions. Once your geometry is defined you can export your completed airplane from AAA into AeroPack as a 3D model to review or create a high quality graphic.

SharkCAD Pro Features

• Powerful Subdivision to NURB editing tools that allow you to combine mesh and traditional solid modeling in one environment
• Flexible license that allows you to install the program on multiple machines
• Robust Architectural and Woodworking tools
• Supports 25 file formats including SAT, IGES, STEP, STL, OBJ, VRML, and DXF/DWG
• Advanced rendering capabilities to examine files and projects before sending them to a printer or fabricator
• Extensive drawing capabilities like the LogiCursor™ that thinks as you draw precisely guiding your mouse and cursor in both the 2D and 3D space
• Powerful 2D and 3D editing tools for intuitive workflows (blending, chamfering, shelling, text, dimensions, 3D to 2D drawing generation tools, bill of materials)
• Native Translators: SolidWorks, NX, ParaSolids, CATIA V5/V6, SolidEdge, and Inventor Import (PC Only)
• Subdivision to NURB
• Boolean Edge Treatments
• Cover, Skin, and Loft with Guides
• Tangent Cover with Guides
• Patterns
• Lofted Solid and Lofted Solid with Guides
• Rib, Lip
• Blend Three Faces, Continuous Curvature, Thumbweights
• Animation Tools

3D Design Tools

• Associative NURBS-based surface modeling with skins, covers, and nets
• History Based/Feature Tree for Rapid Iterations
• Direct face editing for designing independent of history tree
• Constant and variable radius blending and chamfering
• Twist, bend, boss, hole, boolean, and shell features
• Mass properties and interference checking
• Automatic 3D to 2D drawing generation
• Rendering and animation
• 3D Printing tools to verify designs
• KeyShot live linking support
• Mesh Modeling
• Solid Modeling
• Surface Modeling

New Features

• Enhanced usability for 3D modeling (customize, gripper, selections)
• New tools for makers and DIY creators (3D print tools, mesh subdivision tools, Snap to Solid)
• More ways to share data (3D PDF, KeyShot Live Linking, SketchUp™ Import/Export, SAB)
• Improved performance (multithreaded and 64 bit optimizations)
• Improved visualization (faster 3D displays, transparent sizable cutting planes)
• Printing tools to prepare and validate designs to be 3D printer ready
• New and improved Draw Views and Bill of Materials