Aku Shaper For Mac

Aku Shaper is the Mac OS X companion application for the Aku Shaper machine, and enables you to design your own surfboard models in a well organized environment. Thanks to its intuitive design, the Aku Shaper application enables you to create new surfboards without wasting time dealing with complex tools.

Like in many other design applications, the main area of the Aku Shaper application is reserved for the canvas. The app comes with 4 generic surfboards models of different sizes, but you can easily adjust the board curves and thickness.

Finding your way around is fairly straightforward: the bottom area displays dimension details, the top toolbar provides quick access to frequently used tools, while in the center area you get to switch between different view modes (outline, slices, top, bottom, the bay, or machine).

You are able to visualize the machine parameters and speeds, while the board info panel displays all the board details: designer, surfer, model name, dimension, volume, and fins attributes.

Noteworthy is that Aku Shaper is exclusively creating models for the Aku Shaper machines. However, if you want to use the application to simply design surfboards and share them with others, you will have to subscribe to a monthly plan.

What’s more, depending on your plan, you can gain access to more powerful features: you get to manage your designs collection, to export the details to PDF for easy printing, to view the volume distribution, to import boards from other formats (.s3d or .srf), to export to STL or OBJ, to password protect your files, and so on.

The Aku Shaper application proves to be a quite intuitive and easy to use: the built in generic models get you started in no time, and you can adjust them with minimal effort.