CAD/CAM

HydroComp NavCad and PropElements: Guardrails for CFD

HydroComp NavCad and PropElements: Guardrails for CFD

Donald MacPherson, technical director, HydroComp, Inc. The increased use of CFD for hydrodynamic analysis over the last decade has been remarkable, with tools becoming more commercially attainable and accessible. Designers are now looking to CFD for confirmation, optimisation and better understanding of the hydrodynamic aspects of their designs. While CFD is now expanding insights to […]

Shipbuilding CAD/CAM Interoperability and Data Utilisation

Shipbuilding CAD/CAM Interoperability and Data Utilisation

Ludmila Seppälä, business development director, Marine Industry, Cadmatic Interoperability is a key concept frequently mentioned in discussions concerning data exchange and CAD/CAM data formats within shipbuilding. The necessity for data exchange is abundantly clear in shipbuilding projects, given their intricate and protracted nature, requiring the involvement of numerous specialised software systems at various project stages. […]

Using PLM to unlock shipbuilding’s digital potential

Using PLM to unlock shipbuilding’s digital potential

Shipbuilding-specific Product Lifecycle Management will be a gamechanger in the industry’s digital transformation, writes Ludmila Seppälä, Cadmatic business development director  Cadmatic has been at the forefront of solutions for ship design and shipbuilding since the early 80s, advancing the field along with the IT-enabled capabilities of CAD and digitalisation. Earlier this year, Cadmatic and CONTACT […]

Ship design: making collaboration accessible and easy

Ship design: making collaboration accessible and easy

German startup has disruptive ambitions for cloud-based 3D ship design platform As a notoriously conservative industry it probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that ship design and construction wasn’t exactly among the pacesetters when it comes to cloud-based collaboration. However, a German startup company is hoping it can seize the advantage where other […]