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CAD/CAM

Autoship Continues To Make Waves SSTTSTT HVAC's full 3D modeling environment reduces user errors and clashes with structure Full-Featured I

Reporting.

HVAC Featured In

ShipConstructor2004

Scheduled for a September 2003 release, the next major revision of the 3-D product modeling software for shipbuilding and offshore platforms from Albacore

Research Ltd., ShipConstructor2004, will include a full Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning module (HVAC). HVAC is a fully integrated member of the

ShipConstructor suite of Structure, Automatic and

Manual Nest. NC Code generation. Outfit, Pipe.

Fairing, and Lofting tools. To facilitate automatic report generation, HVAC makes full use of

ShipConstructor's SQL Server product database.

As with all ShipConstructor modules, HVAC is a full 3-D modeling package; this reduces drafting errors and time-to-production. With ShipConstructor, HVAC ducts are full-featured AutoCAD entities. Ducts keep track of their connections, allowing them to be stretched and moved in real-time while maintaining connections. Because ducts track changes to the sys- tem, ARL has virtually eliminated the need to re-draw large sections of HVAC due to small modifications. As with all of ARL's intelligent objects, ducts can be exported to regular 3D solids if desired.

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Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) is making waves in a host of maritime industries — they remain a leading software supplier with a range of products that include complete CAD/CAM suites, Stowage

Planning Systems (SPS), real-time Hydrostatic

Engines, and real-time Structural Strength simulation.

With a customer list that includes companies such as

Newport News, ASC can never forget its CAD/CAM roots - and the tradition continues with major additions coming soon to both Autostructure and Autoship prod- uct lines. Starting October 2003, Autostructure includes a complete Production Manager program (structural fabrication functions such as part nesting onto stock material), and a parametric design feature that will create a deck beam, frame, edge stiffeners, and brackets in one operation. Already being developed for next year's Autoship 9 are brand-new, state-of-the-art surface editing capabilities.

ASC continues to demonstrate that it can create stowage planning, hydrostatic, and structural strength products for any maritime market anywhere in the world: offshore, Great Lakes bulk cargo, tanker, con- tainer, break bulk, and RoRo. For example, new cus- tomers include Haliburton Subsea, Maersk, Statoil AS,

Trans Ocean, Rolls Royce, BP, Teekay Shipping, Nile

Dutch Africa, Upper Lakes Group, and Algoma Central

Maxsurf Links with

ShipConstructor

Formation Design Systems and Albacore Research

Ltd. (ARL) have announced that Formation's Maxsurf suite of naval architecture and ship construction soft- ware now links with ARL's ShipConstructor software suite to provide shipyards with a complete end to end solution for ship design, detailing and production. The link has been developed by Formation Design Systems 3-D representation of break bulk and container cargo. Images of cargo include separation and lashing.

With SPS, WWL will now coordinate stowage planning around the globe.

Marine. Implementation of ASC's two largest Stowage

Planning Systems (SPS) are well underway at both

Westwood Shipping Lines (bulk, break-bulk, contain- er) and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines (RoRo, contain- er).

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Maxsurf suite of software. The new functions allow naval architects and structural designers to take pre- liminary structural definitions from Workshop and export them in a format compatible with

ShipConstructor. This format allows transverse frames, longitudinal stringers, hull plates and decks to be trans- ferred.

The new Maxsurf/ShipConstructor interface allows a range of parts to be exported. These include: export of hull plates complete with both 2D and 3D plate infor- mation and marking lines; export of stringer informa- tion including the full 3D stringer shape, export of transverse frames including cutouts for stringers and openings in the frame; export of decks including any deck openings. All parts can be rendered in 3D before export and verified in a similar way after import into

ShipConstructor.

Albacore Research develops the software suite

ShipConstructor, an easy-to-use, 3D product modeling tool for ships and offshore structures of all sizes.

ShipConstructor provides functions for Curved Plate

Production. Internal Structure, Piping, HVAC, Nesting and NC Processing. ShipConstructor runs inside of

AutoCAD connecting all data to Microsoft SQL

Server, thus presenting a familiar environment and resulting in minimal training requirements. The modu- lar software design and flexible licensing allow

ShipConstructor to be fully scalable to the client's spe- cific business needs from the largest shipyard down to the smallest boat builder. ShipConstructor is used worldwide by hundreds of shipyards and naval archi- tects on a wide range of vessels and offshore structures.

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Neilsoft Outfit Steel Module Reduces Design Time

The Neilsoft Outfit Steel Module is a new modelling tool for the Tribon M2

Shipbuilding system enabling designers to easily, quickly and accurately create and place outfit steel objects into the Tribon Product

Information Model (Tribon PIM). The outfit steel objects available are Walkways, Ladders,

Staircases, Equipment Foundations and

Masts. This module developed by Neilsoft will be marketed and sold by Tribon Solutions to Tribon users worldwide. In fact, this past

October, Tribon Solutions and Neilsoft signed a developer co-operation agreement, wherein

Neilsoft will support Tribon users world wide in the customization of existing Tribon appli- cations, and by developing new tools using the

Tribon M2 Developer's Toolkit (including the

Vitesse application).These structures can be complex as each single structure may consist of up to hundreds of different parts. The Outfit Steel Module has a parametric modelling approach that reduces the amount of user interaction to a few simple inputs. Thereafter the module automatically generates the model objects of the structures thus reducing the design time to virtually a couple of minutes.

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