ShipGen highlights

ShipGen highlights

Specially devised for the ship designer who needs to obtain in a few minutes a hull form with the required dimensions, geometry and hydrostatic characteristics.
The user controls the shape of the hull by numbers: he enters the desired geometrical characteristics or hydrostatics coefficients and ShipGen iterates to find the hull form which fits the requirements.
The program incorporates a small integrated naval architecture calculations module and it has a dynamic connection with the Excel spreadsheet to which transmits in every lines modification the hydrostatic data of the new vessel. Thus, the designer is capable of programming in Excel his own project optimization models and feed them dynamically using the data received from ShipGen, closing up the iterative designing process.
To generate the lines, ShipGen uses a set of basic ships (templates) perfectly faired and identified by their Bezier´s surfaces. Starting from this base, ShipGen makes up to 14 transformations from a lengthening to a modification of the trim and the raise of floor.
ShipGen package includes 5 basic types of ships (or templates). Additional templates of other type of ships can be order to Defcar Ing. Check the evaluation templates.
Templates method is very flexible: as an extreme case, it can obtain the forms of a cargo ship starting from a stern trawler, although for this case it is recommended to use the lines of cargo ships included in the system.
The lines generated by ShipGen are always faired provided the transformation is not extreme.
Export the hull form to your system as surfaces (NURBS-IGES) or 2D-lines (DXF).
No training period required: just installed you will begin to obtain results.

NOTE: If you use a CAD system for ship design, you should previously use ShipGen to generate the hull form in a faster, better and easier way, and then you could continue the work exportting the lines to your CAD system.
Download the ShipGen evaluation version.

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