Review article

The article presents the analysis results of perspectives and advantages of using tangential developable surfaces at modeling machine-building and building structures, in architecture, at modeling of sculptural forms, products of light industry. It is established that developable surfaces, products and structures with developable surfaces have found the application in ship hull design, airplane building, agricultural machine building, in architecture and in civil engineering, road building, in the projects of anti-erosion banks and for the approximation of topographical surface, in manufacture of shoes and clothes, as well as in sculpture forms.