What software you’re using for your 3D boat designs?
Everything you see in the pictures where 100% modelled with my TouchCAD app, though I also use some supporting apps, for example for high end rendering (It does generate OpenGL style renderings and animations with full textures within the app). TouchCAD works in full 3D including tools of the trade such as dynamic cross sections, waterlines, verticals and diagonals. Unfolding/unwrapping is dynamically linked to the 3D model and essentially works like a view and includes nesting features for production preparation and optimization, both for manual cutting as well as machine cutting. Automatic features for calculating weights, center of gravity and buoyancy, trim, stability while healing, speed with a given amount of power, and a wide range of other marine design specific calculations.
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Hi folks - nice idea.
I’m a Consultant Welding & Materials Engineer. My first programming experience was on a PDP 11/45 time-sharing computer at school. Several years later I advanced to a ZX81 and did some programming in BASIC and Z80 machine language. I programmed several computers as they became available including BBC BASIC and assembly language, Atari ST (FastBASIC), and then Windows PCs using QBASIC and VB4/5/6.
I then became interested in development for Psion PDAs and had some success with shareware and freeware programs including RealMaps and PsiDat. Incidentally that old part of my site was developed and maintained on a Psion Series 5 using PsiDat.
At the time I did quite a bit of database development using Paradox for Windows. I did also licence RealBASIC in 2006, but didn’t do that much with it, though I did keep an eye on developments for a long time.
Over the past 14 years I’ve tended to concentrate on web development - mainly using PHPRunner - but have become interested in developing native applications for phones and desktop machines again very recently.
I now have one App in the Google Play Store (WIMS) and am working on the iPhone version.
Already found people on this forum very helpful, and hoping to help others once I have more experience.
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Icelandic, a medical doctor and a musician (Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson - Wikipedia), programming for 30+ years (VB, True Basic, C++, C#, Xojo for 5 years, Dart, Flutter). I’ve participated in a few succesful startups and succesfully exited.
The Xojo project I did is a tool-suite for doctors and medical students alike. It comes in 3 languages, runs on lightning fast PostgreSQL using SupaBase. The iOS / Android app is written in Dart using Flutter. A lot of the business logic is on the server side.
I was very dissapointed with the built-in components offered with Xojo and 50% of the development time went into developing a custom control suite from the ground up.We recently had 1.000 users online at the same time. Users can skin the entire application / choose from 3 language packs. Skins and language packs are designed by administrators during runtime.
Custom controls in the screenshot
Sidebar / List / Rich Text control / button / Toolbar / Icons (you can use SVG / graphical fonts, no images needed) / Buttons / Dropdown control / Input field
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Thank you very much Sveinn Runar
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Hi all!
I am Mike Cotrone and I own an MSP that service customer’s Cisco, Arista, Ubiquiti, and Azure Cloud, and Fortinet environments. I have been using Xojo (Real Studio) since 2012 and have build many tools and glue integrations over the years. In the last two years I have built our micro-services based MSP monitoring / assessment platform. I hope to open source this once we add the cloud management UI feature eventually.
I am a Linux admin and network engineer since 1997 and have been developing software since 1998 building perl scripts to automate my world when I worked at Cisco Systems.
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Long time no see, Mike.
Still producing chicken eggs too?
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Hello, I’m Patrice from Las Vegas, NV. I specialize in using Xojo to create custom applications and full-screen kiosk solutions, with a strong focus on designing intuitive, user-friendly interfaces. As a product designer with expertise in user experience, I’m passionate about crafting interfaces that engage and delight.
You can check my work here https://www.olevator.com
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My name is Paweł, and I am from north / west corner or Poland. I’ve been a programmer since the “bedroom programmers” times of the 80s. I’ve written many programs for 8-bit computers, demos and many tools to help write programs, my own machine language monitors, my own assemblers and the like. My professional life was mainly related to the automotive industry, I mainly dealt with the topic of automotive and industrial painting. I wrote many programs that supported the selection of recipes, weighing and mixing for several paint manufacturers - some of my programs were used - due to paint distribution - in many countries. I’m currently writing software supporting production processes for several factories in the chemical and plastics industry, basically full MES systems - and that’s basically what I want to do in the near future. I’ve been using Xojo for several years and I appreciate the speed of creation 
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Hello, I am Uwe from Stuttgart, Germany. I started programming with Fortran 77 in my studies and as a hobby with GFA-Basic on an Atari TT .
I really loved the clarity of Modula-2 and wrote many modules for it. After Modula-2 compilers were no longer really supported, I looked at C, C++, but was not really happy with it.
At some point I came across RB 5.x and it was great that I could write and reuse code for Windows and Mac.
Professionally, I worked in automobile development for many years and during this period I programmeed not a lot.
Six years ago I became self-employed (by far not with prio one as a software developer) and started programming in Xojo again … some apps for Android and iOS, as well as Windows and Mac with a focus on occupational therapists and speech therapists.
During that time, the Xojo forum and the community were a great help for me - thanx therefore.
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Hello, my name is Stefan and I live in beautiful Switzerland. For 25 years I ran my own software company with 18 great employees. We developed and maintained the school software “LehrerOffice” for MacOS and Windows, which was written with RealBasic and Xojo. In 2018, we even had the honor of receiving the Xojo Design Award for the “Best Cross-Platform App”. Thanks to the former LehrerOffice team 
Today I work as a freelance developer and consultant. Thanks to Xojo and MBS plugins, I was able to build the tool “smasi CSV-Wizard” within a very short time. This CSV-Editor is available via the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store:
smasi CSV-Wizard is a special editor that allows mass mutations and multiple files can be processed at once. I regularly use this tool for data migrations, where import processes often have to be repeated several times.
https://www.smasi.software/en/csv-wizard
I like Xojo because you can create robust desktop applications with minimal effort.
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Hi, my name is Barton Bauers - called “Bart” or sometimes “bartman”. I live in New England, the northeast part of the United States.
I write software as a hobby, principally for my own use. I am now retired; when I worked I also developed some small programs for my professional use, primarily on Windows and primarily a flavor of Basic that let me analyze downloaded files from both our banks, and from our Material Control System (I was in Finance and Accounting).
I have used Xojo since 2008 on my personal Mac when it was called “Real Basic”. At that time, I had been using Future Basic, but development stopped on that program and they didn’t handle the conversion to OS-X well. I had been subscribing to a magazine “Mac Addict” that included a free CD every month with miscellaneous software on it. Real Basic was included on the disc, and since I was faced with an obsolete language, I tried it out. Initially, it was not a match made in Heaven! The concept of object-oriented programming was foreign to me, and it took several attempts to convince myself this was the way to go. I did the tutorials and finally decided to take the plunge. The rest, of course, is history!
I have been writing programs since college - in the 1960s in Fortran IV, and a bit of dabbling in Pascal, PL1, and just a teensy bit of Cobol. Personal computers initially didn’t support much other than Basic, so I learned Applesoft and later Apple Business Basic. I did some programs for magazines back in the day, including in assembly language using a program called Lisa Assembler.
The trip with Xojo has been fun, and also has been challenging and sometimes frustrating, but with the help of the forums I was able to solve what many of you may consider “simple” issues, and forge ahead. I’m glad I don’t have to write professional programs like some of the others on this site, because I’m aftaid my personal financial software was pretty much “compose at the piano” with little flow-charting or analysis; and as my abilities improved modestly, updates and upgrades, but with a lot of very old code still embedded.
Perhaps I use 10% of Xojo’s capabilites, but I still have a very sophisticated program that I think is far better than things like Quicken, at least for my needs. Keep the forums going, folks, I suspect there’s a problem I can’t solve just around the corner, and I’ll be back for guidance and help!
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Hello everyone,
My name is Mariano Poli, and I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied Mechanical Engineering and completed a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering. I am the father of five children, born from only two pregnancies: quadruplets and one more.
I have been running a medical software development company for 30 years (www.bmd.com.ar). Our products started with Visual Basic 1.0 and transitioned through all its versions up to 6.0, when we made the very fortunate decision to migrate to Real Basic. Today, our entire platform is developed in Xojo, and I believe it was the best technical decision I ever made.
We offer a portfolio of applications designed for doctors, their assistants, and patients, covering all the environments Xojo supports: desktop, web, and mobile applications for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS.
In 2020, Xojo honored us with the XDC Award for Best Design in a Vertical Market. I am deeply grateful to the Xojo community. Despite being a relatively small group of professionals, I have always received support, selfless help, and companionship over the past 15 years.
I particularly appreciate the contributions of esch forum member, Xojo MVPs, plugin and add-on developers, Xojo engineers, and from @Geoff_Perlman, who makes a significant difference by actively participating in many posts, acting as a sort of “family leader” for this community. It’s remarkable how I’ve always found quick and effective solutions.
Beyond being an exceptional development environment, Xojo’s community is the key differentiator that reaffirms my decision every day to use Xojo as the foundation for developing my software solutions.
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I am Carlos De Backer and I live in beautiful Belgium known for chocolates and beer. My native language is Flemish (Dutch) but being such a small country we have to learn and speak French, English and German.
I started my career as a Master in Economics at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. After my Master, I started a PhD in Computer Science in 1971. Yes, our University had already at that time one computer system (IBM 1130 - 8K memory). Since I was working on the optimisation of computer networks I decided to study one year at MIT Sloan School (1977 - Supervisor Prof. Peter Chen). During this year I had many discussions with people building Arpanet en Aloha (Hawaii). These were in the early days of the Internet.
After my PhD I started my ‘working’ career as professor at the University of Antwerp. During these years I have set up a small commercial company (10 employees) and a non-profit organisation to train job seekers in the interesting field of computer science. I was also active as an IT consultant and as expert for the Belgian courts.
Let me try to remember all the programming languages I have learned and taught over the years: Fortran, Cobol, RPG, Pascal, dBase, Clipper, Visual Basic, Lisp, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi and …Xojo. About 5 years ago I started to use Xojo to teach object orientation, database design and application and GUI design.
Of course I am already retired (academics don’t like to be ‘retired’ they like to be ‘Emeritus’) but the interest in learning and teaching remains a continuous challenge. One of the projects I started last year is to construct a website on IT programming. The URL is https://itbib4you.be. There are tutorials on Scratch (a programming language for children), on Java and on Xojo. The Xojo tutorial is still in its early stages but will expand rapidly in the coming months.
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A very easy to read tutorial, very nice! I’m looking forward to read more material:-)
Hi Everyone,
I’m Rick Allmendinger a retired university professor and academic geologist. In my professional world, I study how mountain belts form and the geology of earthquakes, mostly in South America but also the western US. I started programming back in the 1970s with punch cards and have worked in PL1/PLC, Pascal, Fortran, and since about 2010, Xojo/RealBasic. I write programs primarily for geologists to use in their research and teaching. The most popular, which plots stereographic projections, has about 35,000 downloads per year, because it is extensively used in teaching; but it is also used by archeologists, entomologists, and even in dental school (to measure the angles between facets on teeth)! Xojo solved a key problem for me because I did not want to maintain separate code bases for my Mac and Windows programs. The programs are free because I initially wrote them for me and my own students to use in our research and because I decided many years ago that I didn’t want to sit in professional meetings wondering whether a colleague who was speaking paid for my programs or not.
More recently, I have been writing mapping apps for iOS as well as for desktop. And, it turns out that mapping apps for geologists are a fine starting point for privacy-oriented, completely offline hiking apps that utilize custom base topographic base maps that I make by downloading the original digital elevation models from the USGS or other sources. All told, I have about 8 or 9 iOS apps and a similar number of major desktop apps that I maintain as well as lots of utility apps to do things like convert between Latitude-Longitude and UTM coordinates. Got to keep the brain sharp in retirement!
I am deeply grateful to the many people on this forum who are so willing to share their knowledge and help when I get stuck. Thank you!
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Welcome Richard - nice to hear from someone with an interest in mapping.
Quite some time ago I developed an application for Psion Series 3 and Series 5 palmtop devices that might be a primitive precursor to your iOS apps.
Excuse the very old site - RealMaps - Overview
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Thats been my forever pet project that is stalled at the moment due to lack of extra time
I hope you are doing well Rick!
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I’m Edwin, a Xojo enthusiast.
I live in Loosdrecht and Pesse, in The Netherlands.
I work as a freelance camera-operator and video-editor for some of our national and regional TV stations in The Netherlands, as well as many corporate video productions.
I use Xojo mainly to streamline my workflows. I created tools that help organize my raw-footage and projects. I use a Xojo-Web-App as a portal where clients and production houses can maintain and/or download projects and/or final videos.
A recent development is an app that automatically selects best takes from lengthy interviews, powered by several AI tools. I created an algorithm to detect stutters, stressed pitch, etc.
When I feed the transcription and video-script, the app selects the takes and exports an XML video-timeline that I can import in Adobe Premiere, AVID or Final Cut.
Browsing and selecting takes can easily take days. With this app it has been cut down to minutes.
This gives me more time to be creative.
Also, as a creative, I’m not too fond with admin. So, I created many tools to help me with all the necessary business-admin stuff. Without these Xojo-Created-Tools I’m sure my live would be a disaster!
I can say that Xojo helps me to be a real multi-tasker, as illustrated in the selfie-video below:
P.S. Did you find the Xojo references in the cave? 
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I’ve discovered Xojo when it was still REALbasic, in 1999 I think it was. Originally a computer scientist specializing in AI I was working as a journalist for computer magazines at the time, and apart from developing the occasional in-house app I sometimes managed to sneak in an article about programming in the magazine. I had dabbled in many programming languages before, from assembler (PDP-11, Motorola 68k …) to LISP and NewtonScript, but my favourite language used to be LISP in its various incarnations. For in-house applications and fun projects my development environment of choice then became REALbasic/Xojo. My activity on this forum has been on and off for many years, mostly depending on whether I was working on a development project – for long stretches of time I had other things on my mind but I’ve always come back. Right now I’m working on both a fun project and something related to a possible start-up. Xojo is a great environment for quickly trying out some half-baked ideas, improving on these or switching to another approach entirely.
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