Welcome to the Up & Comer plan

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Otter Surfboards UK designing hollow wood board plans

Upgrade to unlock all of the following features in the Heavyweight plan:

  • Includes all Backyarder and Up & Comer features, in addition to:

  • Export your 3D designs in OBJ, STL, IGES, and DXF file formats

  • Secure your designs with BRX™, our password protected file format

  • Preview cutting paths within AkuShaper software

  • Contour Highlight 3D view gives more insight into concaves and bottom contours

  • Automatically fit the board's curve to guidepoints

  • Rail Curve Refiner: Edit tuck and apex curves in Outline and Profile views

The Up & Comer plan includes:

  • Automated scaling / rocker adjustments tools to manage your growing collection of designs

  • Print outlines, rockers and slices

  • Import boards from Shape3d (.s3dx) and DSD (.srf)

  • Visualize rail lines for better feedback on the smoothness of your rail curves

  • Expanded View stretches the outline/rocker to fill the screen for finer editing

  • Straight line vs. Over the Curve adjusting

  • Full size PDF Export Printing (Single sheet outline printing)

  • Rail Thickness Marks

  • Fin Marking Tools

  • Ghost Board Overlay

  • Ghost Board Dimensions

  • Tokoro Rail Thickness

  • Guide Points Plotter

  • Draggable Board in Blank (Fit your designs with blank files)

  • Biolos Foot Marks

  • Image Board Function

  • Image Rails and Rockers

  • Board Manager

  • Slice Area Profile

  • Rail Tuck & Apex Display (editing ability in Heavyweight plan)

  • Volume Sections

  • Blank Differentials

  • Center of Mass Tool

  • Show Mass Area Line

  • Show Center of Mass

  • Hollow Board Plan Export