New ProSurf 3 Software

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 7, 2001

Contact:
Stephen M. Hollister, President
TEL: (401) 423-1852
shollist@newavesys.com


New Wave Systems, Inc. Announces ProSurf 3,
a Major New Version of its Hull Design and Fairing Program


(Jamestown, Rhode Island, USA) New Wave Systems, Inc. (www.newavesys.com) announces the release of ProSurf 3, a major new version of its hull design and fairing program. After 15 years of development, ProSurf 3 has evolved into a general-purpose trimmed NURB surface modeling program. ProSurf 3 offers unique features, such as using edit points that lie on the NURB curves and surfaces, dynamic curvature feedback for fairing, fine tune shaping commands, dynamic geometry constraints, editing and shelling of polysurfaces, plate development and expansion, hydrostatics, stability and resistance calculations and a database of airfoil shapes.

“Over the years, our boat and ship design program has evolved into one that can handle any 3-dimensional shape,” says Stephen Hollister, President of New Wave Systems, Inc. “We wrote all of the code in ProSurf 3. It does not use any third party software or kernel and it contains unique capabilities that cannot easily be duplicated. We are also being very aggressive about lowering the price of ProSurf 3 to $795. No other surface modeling program provides the same capabilities at anywhere near that price. We also have a new ProBasic 3 program at $395 and a new ProChine 3 program at $195.”

Two of the greatest strengths of ProSurf 3 are its detailed surface shaping and fairing tools and its dynamic geometric constraints. After generating surfaces using sweeping, extruding, shelling, lofting, and other techniques, the designer can perform detailed shaping and fairing using fine tune move commands and dynamic curvature feedback information. Combined with the use of edit points that lie on the NURB surface, these commands provide unmatched, detailed shape control required to develop fair surfaces. The designer can also dynamically display any plane-surface or surface-surface intersection while changing the shape of the surface.

ProSurf 3 also provides a number of optional geometric constraints that can be applied to the geometry. One of the most important is the ability to “bond” two surfaces together edge-to-edge. This allows designers to edit and shape connected polysurfaces without having them come apart. These constraints are optional and are defined independently from the geometric entities, which means that they can be added or deleted at any time without affecting the shape of the geometry. Another constraint allows the designer to attach a curve to a surface and use it to trim the shape of the surface. Once defined, the trim curve or the underlying surface can be edited, dynamically showing the changes to the trimmed surface. No untrimming and retrimming is required.

Full descriptions, articles, help files, examples, and a demonstration version of ProSurf 3 are now available at www.newavesys.com.


About New Wave Systems, Inc. (http://www.newavesys.com)

New Wave Systems, Inc. was established in 1985 to develop computer-aided design, analysis, and engineering software for boats and ships. Over the years, many special tools have been developed for shaping and fairing NURB curves and surfaces. In addition to boats and ships, designers have used these tools to design all types of 3D objects, such as curved buildings, sculptures and a wide variety of industrial design products. [See the general purpose version of ProSurf 3, called Pilot3D at www.pilot3d.com ] ProSurf 3 is a next generation program built upon 15 years of programming development. It is written totally in-house and is not based on any third-party software or kernel. Because of this extensive background in the area of smooth, complex curve and surface design, ProSurf 3 contains numerous unique capabilities not found in any other program at any price.

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Editors, please direct reader inquiries about ProSurf 3 to www.newavesys.com or info@newavesys.com. Contact Stephen Hollister at (401) 423-1852 or shollist@newavesys.com for more information or images.