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Vessel Design are not made. ASC understands the ship- yard supply chain and therefore continues to work hard to integrate their state-of- the-art CADCAM systems with other notable shipyard software.

To this end, some key Autoship CAD-

CAM suite interfaces with third-party software systems include: Autoship. Models created in other programs can be imported via IGES or

DXF. In addition, if the vessel designer wants to start his vessel in the Autoship suite from the lines of an existing vessel, this is possible with the surface match routine (available only in Autoship Pro).

The user has two ways to enter the data: a. manually typing in offsets into a table; or b. by importing the existing vessel's off- sets using a "csv" (comma separate vari- able) file format - a file format easily cre- ated from a Microsoft ExCel spreadsheet.

Either way, the surface match routine will generate a set of curves from the data, and then loft a surface through them. Autostructure. Autostructure inter- faces with two third party software: Auto-

PLANT and AutoCAD: a. AutoPLANT is a third party pip- ing design software. The link between

Autostructure and AutoPLANT ensures that any conflict between piping system design and structural design is resolved during the vessel design stage, rather than during the vessel construction stage. b. AutoCAD is used by Autostruc- ture for editing 2-D flat parts, and export- ing of parts, assemblies and cross-sections in 2-D and 3-D. Production Manager. Production

Manager exports nesting drawings and tables to AutoCAD. Optionally, the pro- gram operator can write out a DWG file.

Autoship has not stopped the third party integration process. For example, Auto- ship has an agreement with SPAR Associ- ates, Inc www.sparusa.com for an inter- face between Perception software of

SPAR and the Autoship CAD suite. The interface means that material require- ments determined in the design process can be transmitted exactly and a timely fashion to the supply management soft- ware of the Perception suite.

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