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Issue: 1.4 (February/March 2003)
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Claes Lundstrom runs his own boat design company, Lundstrom Design, based in Sweden, and wrote his own CAD software in REALbasic. The sophisticated TouchCAD sells for $795 and is used by engineers around the world to build complex real-world projects.
Why don't you tell me a little about yourself.
I'm originally a construction engineer. I have designed over 70 boats and I also resell VectorWorks (the leading Mac CAD program) . No special programming training at all. I have written some scripts for VectorWorks, though, based on Pascal.
What prompted your interest in writing your own CAD program?
Originally I needed a program that could unfold very complex hull plates on boats. No other program does it.
How did you get started? Were you already using REALbasic or did you seek it out just for this project?
It is a long process that started in 1985 with a calculator, then moving into a spreadsheet, and then into BASIC. I had a friend that wrote the predecessor in C++. I started to use RB when it first came out.
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