"I purchased Autostructure last year (2004) after using it briefly on a trial run. I needed to speed up and simplify designing the structural components in the boat hulls. I had been designing all the structural components in Autoship, and AutoCAD for many years, which worked, however was tedious work.

After going through the Autostructure tutorial (which is very well written), I started using the software immediately. So far I've designed the structural components for boats ranging from an 18ft sports-fisherman to a 37ft twin diesel cruising boat to a 25ft pilot house cruiser, and a 20ft RIB.

The ease and speed with which I can put a set of longitudinals and bulkheads into a hull and have them ready to machine cut puts a smile on my face every time." Read more...

Bruce Cope, Owner - Cope Aluminum Boats, Canada

"With the Autoship software we have been able to improve both our efficiency and precision in fishing boat design."

Ing. Vincenzo Ippolito, Owner - Cantiere Navale Ippolito, Italy

"The Autoship software has allowed us to consistently produce high-quality, perfectly symmetric, and wellfaired hull plugs over the years. After 10 years of use, it's still the best program on the market".

Keith Ranieri, Head Engineer - Boston Whaler, USA

"..with the Autoship System we will be able to see higher productivity with on-time engineering. As an AutoCAD shop, we needed marine specific tools to complement our current engineering processes. We also needed user-friendly software with a short learning-curve and we have thus chosen Autoship."

Mr. P. Chakrabarty, Deputy General Manager - Chowgule Shipbuilding Division, India

"Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia, USA, uses the marine design software from Autoship Systems Corporation of Vancouver, Canada for various engineering projects.

Individual projects that the said software was, and is, used on, cannot be disclosed due to the business sensitive nature of the information. However, we confirm that the Autoship System software serves an important role in completing many design tasks within our engineering departments on our entire product line. This includes tankers, passenger ships, aircraft carriers and submarines."

Todd L. Sedler, Research Engineer - Newport News Shipbuilding, USA.

"Autoship is a very important tool for our shipyard."

Stéphane Loubert, Chief Designer - Chantier Naval Forillion, Canada

"Autoship is powerful, easy to learn and to use. As Autoplate uses the same interface as Autoship, I didn't find any difficulty during the self-learning process.

In Autoplate it is easy to create butts and seams (boundaries of the plates) using mainly projected curves to the shell. I fair the curves in 2D planes and after we project them to the shell in order to obtain the plate boundaries. By only choosing the orthogonal directions of projection, the end results were quite easy.

The method to create plates is very intuitive by clicking the plate boundaries. Also to expand plates and create templates for forming it is easy to manipulate. Several options are given to see the results, which helps to observe the accuracy of the expansion. Autoplate can expand quite well plates that seem to be practically non-expandable.

At our shipyard we have used Autoplate on a present new build, in parallel with conventional methods (Japanese analogic machine) to compare the results and with positive results we intend to use Autoplate for the next new building. The very good DXF interface of Autoplate with AutoCAD, also is very attractive to us."

Carlos Rodrigues, Chief Naval Architect - Estaleiros Navais De Viana Do Castelo, Portugal