Tribon M3 Lines

[bigbri272]

Can anyone tell me some backgroung on the development history of Tribon (M3) Lines. I have used it, but neet to write a little about the background. An online maunual would be very helpful. The online help is rubbish!!

[Ironmaster]

Hmmm?? Tribon??...What is that??......For those of us not familiar with this program....can you provide more information on it? Perhaps even a link to their website??

[Andrew Mason]

Tribon is the ship production system used by the majority of the world's large shipyards.

It's development history as I recall is that it started as the Kockums system in the 1970's running on mainframe computers with not much in the way of a user interface. As it expanded to be used by other shipyards Kockums Computer Systems (KCS) aquired two other ship production systems, Steerbear and Autokon. Later they also acquired the Schiffko system from Germany.

In the meantime the British Shipbuilding Research Association (BSRA) was privatised to become BMT and a year or two later their ship design and production software was also sold to KCS. All this software was integrated into a new system name, Tribon and KCS was sold to a large pension fund. A few years later the company was sold again to Aveva.

Sorry I can't give you more detail or dates, this is all from memory so its a bit fuzzy. Hopefully I have given you some search terms which you can google to find more detail.

[Ironmaster]

Hmm? Seems like a cool software package. Mason thanks a lot for your input. This clarifies a lot. But I think I will leave messing around with Tribon to others and stick to primitive backyard boatbuilding ;-)

[zeroname]

can anyone tell me, is it possible to import lines from maxsurf or rhino to Tribon M3 lines? if yes, then which format or how?

Thanks

[zeroname]

no one use tribon lines? i found an option in tribon lines to import *.iges format offset table. but i tried this using maxsurf and autoship also. but none supported by tribon lines, so which method i can follow to import a model from maxsurf or rhinoceros to tribon lines?

thanks