Marine Design Software for Hull Modeling? (2015)

[Admin]

Continued as a tradition from http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/de...sign-software-hull-modeling-2014-a-49380.html

Which hull modeling programs do you use as your primary hull design software?

• Autoship (Autoship Systems Corporation)
  
• AVEVA Marine
  
• DefCar (DefCar Engineering)
  
• Delftship
  
• Fastship
  
• Free!Ship Plus
  
• HullCAO (HullCAO)
  
• HullForm (Blue Peter Marine Systems)
  
• MAAT
  
• Maxsurf (Formation Design Systems)
  
• MultiSurf (Aerohydro)
  
• Napa
  
• Naval Designer
  
• NX
  
• Paramarine
  
• Prolines (Vacanti Yacht Design)
  
• ProSurf (New Wave Systems)
  
• Rhino (Robert McNeel & Assoc.)
  
• Naval Designer (US Sales by Forum Marine)
  
• SeaSolution (SeaSolution)
  
• TouchCAD (Lundström Design)
  

 

[lewisboats]

I still use Carene 2008 to start a hull, then import into Freeship (usually 2.6).

 

[GersonPerezbr]

Where can i download the free!ship ?

 

[Boat Design Net Moderator]

The original free!ship can be downloaded from
Sourceforge

Free!Ship became DelftShip which comes in a free and pro version and can be downloaded from the
DelftShip website

There is also Free!Ship plus which can be downloaded from
HydroNShip

 

[Kestrel]

Going on using Thinkdesign 3D par. CAD and SUPHAD (beta v.1.6.2) for hull dynamic analysis.

 

[tehnics]

Hi,
On company that I work it is used Foran. I did not see it in table above.
Also we start to use Siemens NX.

 

[NavalSArtichoke]

Hi,
On company that I work it is used Foran. I did not see it in table above.
Also we start to use Siemens NX.

FORAN is still around:

http://www.senermar.es/NAVAL/foran/en

 

[Alexanov]

Nupas.

Hi, we use Nupas-Cadmatic, but it is not listed here.

 

[Alexanov]

Probably only light weight software mostly listed.

 

[TANSL]

I do not know how many naval CAD-CAM programs you know but Catia, Defcar, Maat, Maxsurf, Solidworks, among others, are not "light weight software".

 

[Oleboynow]

I do not know how many naval CAD-CAM programs you know but Catia, Defcar, Maat, Maxsurf, Solidworks, among others, are not "light weight software".

Agree especially solidworks which takes big RAM
so what in his words are heavyweights I wonder

 

[TANSL]

There is another issue, which has nothing to do with the exposed by Alexanov, that may arise: many great CAD-CAM programs are somewhat deficient as "Hull Modeling Software". Perhaps some are confusing the modeling with CAD-CAM. Or the original question is not well posed or some of us are responding to something other than what is asked.
I leave here the idea for a possible debate.

 

[Alexanov]

I do not know how many naval CAD-CAM programs you know but Catia, Defcar, Maat, Maxsurf, Solidworks, among others, are not "light weight software".

Catia and Solidworks was designed not like shipbuilng systems. rest in your list cover only some part of ship design and ship building tasks and can't be used from design to production.

 

[Alexanov]

Is is like to say we are design cruise liner in Rhino.

 

[TANSL]

Alexanov, clearly you talk about programs that you do not know, as most of them "can be used from design to production"