SeaSolution

Sea Solution is a CAD system for shipbuilding.

Sea Solution is a comfortable tool for geometrical simulation and design, especially for fairing lines and shell plates development.

• Model
  • Trimmed NURBS Surfaces support
  • Fully supported topology and parameterization
  • Ruled surfaces support (like rotation, extruding and etc.)
  • Surface lines support
  • Hierarchical database
  • Team work possibilities
• Interface
  • Windows style menu, toolbars, easy to use
  • Open GL support
  • Fast sections, curvatures, inflection lines recalculation
  • Levels & blocks for visualization control
  • 3D volume / window visualization tools
  • Scaled the mouse movement tools
• Topology & parameterization
  • Direct and back links between connected elements
  • Tracing and updating connected elements
  • Topological associating when new element creating
  • Parameterization rules definition
  
• Lines/surface fairing tools
  • Dynamically visualization of maximum deviations from the original offsets
  • Lines/Surfaces automatically adjustment functions
  • Lines/Surface fairing functions
  • Ruled surface control
  • Control points/knots manipulation tools
  • Lines/Surface tangency control tools
  • Curvature and inflection lines visualization for frames, waterlines, buttocks
  • Import prototype lines and surfaces
  
• Surface quality control
  • Unlimited orthogonal sections quantity for current view
  • Calculation Gauss curvature for surface and radiuses of curvature for the lines
  • Inflection lines calculation for orthogonal sections of the surface
  • Current view affine transformation
• Design
  • No limitation for hull shape
  • Faster for making final lines fairing
  • Can be used for initial design and final production surface modeling
  • Flat side, flat bottom can be defined
  • Anchor pocket surfaces, thruster surfaces, stern rollers, can be easily modeling
  • Jointed surfaces have no gaps and will follow modified border line
  • Composite elements - drivers( several lines and surfaces controlled by another elements )
  • Blocks and complete model transformation ( move, copy, mirror, affine )
  • Operations with external blocks. External links.
  
• Output documentation
  • Classic lines drawings, shell expansion drawings 3D lines drawing
  • Classic offset table for sections and any surface lines like decks lines, stringers and etc…
  • Any additional lines in DXF file - frames, decks, stringers
  • Expanded shell plates with many different types of bending templates
  • Shell unit sketches
  • Templates and expanded plates contour in real scale
• Integration
  • Exact data transfer with NURBS surfaces
  • Wide range export/import file formats supporting like IGES, VDA-FS, DXF
  • Easy to integrate with Microsoft Office products
  • Using together with Foran v40, v50, Napa, Tribon, Napa, Tribon, Ship Constructor, Nupas.
  • Special file formats support for shell plates export
  • Data transferring support into several hydrostatics calculation packages

Ship's surface definition begins from determination of boundary curves and surfaces. Once defined surface can be easy modified on any projecting stage. The program is able to define hull surfaces for any type of ships, surfaces of superstructures, decks, platforms and bulkheads. The program is able to create libraries of typical shapes and to use typical elements in new projects.

Also the program is able to create mathematical models of hull structure. Using the program you can define decks, longitudinal and transversal bulkheads, trusters, anchor pockets, platforms. Then you can create and develop shell plates. Output documentation is tested by long term manufacturing applications.