


Now running on numerous iPad models, Shapr3D built their initial application on the iPad Pro. The user interface is easy to master, enabling any user to quickly integrate Shapr3D into their workflow. Now designers and engineers can work anywhere at any time while also benefitting from the intuitive touch screen interface that mobile computing offers. Shapr3D is a Hungary-based startup that’s delivering 3D CAD for the mobile platform. The next generation of CAD on mobile devices With the processing power of the latest Apple® iPad Pro® now rivaling MacBook Pro® laptops, it’s no surprise that Adobe® is bringing Photoshop® software to the iPad®. Modern tablets offer much better performance. But it’s only recently that such devices have introduced the user interface and performance that are needed for 3D content creation, which explains the limited innovation in mobile 3D CAD. Mobile devices have long excelled at consuming content, and a wide selection of media and entertainment applications have flourished. Today, applications continue to deliver incremental enhancements, but what will be the next breakthrough? Despite innovation in mobile computing, most 3D CAD software trails other applications that take full advantage of this megatrend. At the same time, new applications have emerged to leverage transformational technologies like additive manufacturing and the cloud. Recent milestones include advances in modeling, such as direct editing independent of a design history, and the convergence of modeling with boundary representation (B-rep) solids and facet data in a common environment. Continuous innovation has created impressive design capabilities across hundreds of applications.

The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.Computer-aided design (CAD) has evolved significantly since 3D modeling technology was introduced in the 1970s. Go to the NRG web site (to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955.

We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships. The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
