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Hydrocomp

Autohydro from Autoship

Autohydro is a complete hydrostatics and stability calcu- lations program for naval architects, ship designers and marine engineers. A true floating simulator, Autohydro reports the reaction of the model to various conditions such as a loading configuration, a damage situation, con- ditions involving outside forces, wind or high speed turn- ing momentum or some combination of these. Autohydro can also be used to obtain hull form characteristics and capacities. Vessel attitude is displayed graphically and in text on the screen. Report information, text and graphs, can be shown on the screen, edited, printed, saved or exported to other Windows applications. http://cadcam.autoship.com

PropElements from HydroComp

PropElements is a new software product from

HydroComp for detail propeller design and analysis.

PropElements provides the ability to uniquely capture the performance of a particular propeller on a particular ves- sel and provides a measure of technical scrutiny that has been absent. Naval architects can work in partnership with propeller manufacturers to insure that a proposed custom or semi-custom propeller design will perform as specified. www.hydrocompinc.com

ShipConstructor 2011 Released

ShipConstructor Software Inc. has released

ShipConstructor 2011, the newest version of the compa- ny’s AutoCAD-based CAD/CAM application. Multiple hierarchies can now be used to generate production out- put as well as analysis. To ensure that the ShipConstructor

SQL database is always optimized for maximum perform- ance, ShipConstructor 2011 now provides a simple method for scheduling database maintenance operations including the cleanup of unused data, compacting of data- base files and the re-building of database indexes. The project revisions dialog has also been enhanced to make it easier to localize and examine project revision history. www.shipconstructor.com

Foran in Acergy Havila Project

Foran was the CAD/CAM system used to engineer the

Acergy Havila Project, a new Diving Support Vessel built after the agreement between Acergy and Havila Shipping.

As there were many companies involved in the project, different subcontractors have acquired the new FCM module, which is a Foran solution developed by Sener for visualization and checking purposes. The Acergy Havila will have high transit speed, an ice-class hull and class-3 dynamic positioning. The ship has been nominated for the Ship of the Year award in Norway 2010.

Aveva’s New 64-Bit Versions

Aveva Group plc, provider of engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and marine industries, announced the release of the first 64-bit versions of its powerful visualization and design communication technologies. This enables designers to take advantage of the increased processing power of the latest 64-bit computers to create highly detailed and easi- ly navigable 3D design visualizations of even bigger and more complex capital projects. www.aveva.com

PRODUCTS

Autohydro

ShipConstructor 2011

Aveva’s 64-Bit Versions