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Major Upgrade for Autoship®
Hull Design Software
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) of Vancouver, Canada
is pleased to announce the release of Autoship
9.0, the industry leading ship hull design and surface
modelling program. Exciting new design tools include:
Feature Patches™ - A system for introducing
local shape control on a surface without dealing with
unwanted control points. The feature patch blends at
its edges to the shape of the parent surface. When the
parent surface shape is changed the patch moves with
the change, retaining its own shape.
A
bow bulb created as a feature patch. The patch area
is indicated by change in the mesh colour. The patch
control points used to shape the bulb are indicated,
while the control points of the base surface are hidden.
Edge Mate™ - Allows all or part of the edge
of one surface to be matched exactly to all or part
of another surface's edge. The user can choose positional,
tangent or curvature continuity from one surface to
the other.
A rendering
of the bow surface, including the feature patch.
Project Integration and Export - Surfaces which
incorporate Feature Patches and/or Edge Mate are fully
integrated into the Autoship project. The surfaces
are contoured, intersected, trimmed, meshed and rendered
- just like any other Autoship surface. Plus,
the surfaces export exactly via IGES, making transfer
of designs from Autoship to other programs
simple and accurate.
The aft
end of the bow surface has been mated to the parallel
midbody surface, with a specification of tangent continuity.
Additional Features - Autoship 9 incorporates
other significant advances:
- A revised Navigator for organizing and accessing
model components.
- Edit planes allow you to set up a list of rotated
views in the 3D viewer and then edit in that view
and have the vertices constrained to move only in
the plane of that view.
- Alternate main screen layouts.
- Surfaces can be coloured, making it easy to pick
out one surface in a complex design.
- Translucency in rendering.
- Single button operation to create station contours
from baseline data.
- Increased use of context menus to speed access to
operations.
- Walk through in rendering.
- Improved IGES export and import.
Autoship Systems Corporation (ASC) is a marine software
developer based in Vancouver, Canada. ASC is known for
excellence in integrated CAD/CAM software, plus stowage
planning systems for all vessel types. To contact the
nearest Dealer, click to Contact
Us or email sales@autoship.com.
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