Feature 3
Dassault in the lap of luxury
Yacht designer chooses CATIA platform for vessel planning.
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rthur M Barbeito & Associates, design, including hull design, steel CATIA’s combination of advanced design
Inc, one of the world’s premier structure design, piping, and interior functionality and scalability to make us
luxury yacht designers, has design. It also plans to use the DELMIA more efficient by orders of magnitude.’
chosen Dassault’s CATIA design authoring digital manufacturing solution for The designer recently partnered Wuhan
software as its primary design platform. communicating production information Nanhua High-Speed Ship Engineering
RAND North America, Dassault with the shipyards that build Barbeito’s Co, a Chinese shipyard that uses Dassault
Systèmes’ partner, worked with designs. Systèmes’ CATIA design authoring software.
Barbeito to find the solution that best ‘We were wasting a lot of time going to The single platform collaboration between
streamlined Barbeito’s design and one application for conceptual surface designer and shipyard, PLM, is anticipated
manufacturing planning processes. design, then another for the steel detailing, to yield significant efficiencies.
CATIA will consolidate in one solution and another for the piping and equipment,’ ‘Barbeito’s designs have to combine
the functionality its engineers currently said Arthur Barbeito, company founder space-age engineering with elegant
struggle to access by switching between and president. ‘The different systems also aesthetics. CATIA’s integration and range of
several different applications. multiplied the time it took to modify a functionality will give Barbeito’s staff more
Barbeito & Associates specialises in design because a change in one system flexibility to create innovative designs that
highly customised 50m-160m megayachts had to be manually repeated in the others. meet their clients’ expectations,’ said Dan
with luxury interiors. The company With CATIA, we have all of our essential Smith, vice president, business development,
will use CATIA for every facet of yacht functionality in one system. We expect RAND North America. NA
OpenNURBS 4.0 toolkit for .NET
System eliminates 3D model rebuilding.
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obert McNeel & Associates has engineering, again for analysis, and yet again • Windows 2000, XP, and Vista support
released the openNURBS 4.0 toolkit for tooling, introduces errors and modifies the • NURBS evaluation routines
for .NET, supporting all of the features original design. The
openNURBS.NET toolkit • Quality assurance and revision control
in Rhinoceros 4.0 native 3DM file format eliminates the need to rebuild by making the • Supporting libraries and utilities
including history, annotation, meshes, and industry-standard 3DM file format accessible • Free technical support and training
images. to any .NET-enabled application.’
‘The inability to transfer geometry between The toolkit includes: The openNURBS toolkit for .NET is free.
applications stifles designers' use of 3D,’ said • Documentation There are no restrictions. Neither copyright
Bob McNeel, president of Robert McNeel & • .NET 2.0 Assembly to read and write nor copyleft restrictions apply. No contribution
Associates, ‘Building a 3D model during the Rhino’s 4.0, 3.0, and 2.0 3DM file format of effort or technology is required from the
design process, then rebuilding it for product and read 1.0 files members, although it is encouraged. NA
S & I partners Autoship
Distribution deal aims to benefit the Asia Pacific region.
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&
I Systems, of Singapore, has joined the across Asia Pacific. (resistance and powering prediction) and
Autoship dealer network, with a remit to Working with ASC, S & I will actively Autoplate (plate design, expansion, and
distribute Autoship’s suite of CAD/CAM distribute ASC’s integrated suite of CAD/CAM management system).
programs to the Asia Pacific region. programs and Stowage Planning Systems Stowage Planning Systems (SPS)
S & I has over 200 employees in the Asia (SPS). The complete CAD/CAM product line provides extensive stowage solutions
Pacific area, with direct presence in China, includes Autoship Pro (hull design and surface for cargo management activities and
Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand. It modelling), Autohydro Pro (hydrostatics and can be customised to different levels of
provides infrastructure and business solutions stability), Autostructure (internal structural complexity from managing rig decks and
to a customer base of over 1000 customers design), Production Manager (nesting and supply vessels, to complex ro-ro ship cargo
representing a broad spectrum of industries other production support), Autopower management. NA
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