Design Modules
- Last UpdatedOct 30, 2025
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Hull Design
Hull Design is a powerful, datacentric application for the design and creation of production information for main hull structures. The application covers the entire process, from hull design to parts manufacture and block assembly, for all types of ship. The application creates, not only drawings and parts lists, but also all the production information and documents required in the design and building process. The application handles the complete flow of information, from the use of customized parametric standards, to modelling, automatic parts generation, and advanced support for generation of drawings to production. The following applications are available within Hull Design.
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Hull Detailed Design - Curved Modelling |
Various curved hull objects are interactively generated in any of the hull surfaces. Extensive interactive facilities enable you to define any curved member with respect to basic geometry locations or relative to existing curves. The curved plates are automatically developed according to the workshop methods that are used at the shipyard. Holes in curved plates can be defined, developed and used for marking or cutting. See Hull Curved Modelling for further information. |
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Hull Detailed Design - Planar Modelling |
Planar Hull Modelling establishes a design model and develops classification drawings. Planar Hull Modelling also incorporates all functions that are required in the detail design phase. Consequently, Planar Hull Modelling in one system covers all the activities from the early design to the production preparation. See Planar Modelling for further information. |
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Plate Nesting |
The Nesting System is a tool for nesting plate parts and for creating information relevant to the nesting work. The plate parts to be nested are usually supplied by other subsystems but can be created and modified within the Nesting System. With the system, parts are nested on a parent plate and the tool path is defined creating a generic file to be used as input to a suitable postprocessor. See Hull Nesting for further information. |
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Panel Line Control |
The Panel Line Control module is used to nest assembly parts onto large raw plates and produce NC information for blasting, marking, burning and text labelling. |
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Interactive Jig Pillars |
The purpose of Interactive Jig Pillars is to calculate information about jig pillars for curved panels, knuckled panels or plane panels. See Manufacturing Curved Plates for further information. |
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Structural Design |
Structural Design supports the designer in decisions regarding the preliminary definition and arrangement of the basic elements of a ship design, namely the main ship structures and major equipment. It also provides the framework for associated design guidance. See Purpose for further information. |
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Space Management |
During the design of a ship, Space Management allows you to reserve spaces for different support systems. |
Outfitting Design
Outfitting Design is the main, graphically driven constructor module. It enables a full sized three-dimensional model to be defined in the design database, with selected views of the current state of the design shown on the graphics screen as the design progresses.
All parts of the design (including equipment, and piping and structural steelwork layouts) can be created. Component selection is provided through Specifications that dictate which Catalog Components can be used. Each part of the design model can be displayed in colour-shaded ‘solid’ colour-coded representations for ease of interpretation.
The Outfitting Design module can check for interferences (clashes) between items created in the design. There is a very flexible reporting capability that can be used to produce a wide variety of design documents - from bulk Material Take Off to detailed nozzle schedules.
Piping isometrics can be previewed in Outfitting Design (without having to switch to the Isometric drawing generation module, Isodraft).
SPOOLER
SPOOLER is used for pipework spooling. It allows the designer to split the pipework design into logical sections (spools) ready for fabrication. The spool data can then be output as isometric drawings using Isodraft.
Refer to the Pipework Design User Guide for further information.