VMA - Other Marine Related Tools

There are some more software for marine based design works other than main categories on the other hand there is also many interesting software in this list for sail design, ship maneuvering, sail making, proppellers, data transfer between cad/cam/cae etc... note: some of the software before listed in this page which are related to military applications (signature simulations for radar, infrared, acoustics, etc.) were transferred to the new section: the stealth software...03.08.01

listed in alphabetical order!

3DView	3DView is a product for viewing a wide range of Cad formats without requiring any CAD system or CAD server. 3DView - Core Viewer will import most common industry standard formats including: IGES, STL, VDA, VRML, Iso-G-Code and 3DStudio files. Separate interface modules expand 3DView's capability to directly import: Catia, Solidworks, Mechanical Desktop, DWG, DXF, Parasolids and SolidEdge.

Abacus	Abacus produces marine design systems, CAD utilities as well as development tools. Mermaid (Marine Engineering Machinery Design System) consists of Rorpopt, design and performance analysis of piping flow systems. Tkheat, analysis of heat transfer in bunkers and cargo tanks on ships and offshore units. Elsim, design of electrical load systems. Promac, selection and evaluation of propulsion machinery, including main engines, gears and main engine driven auxiliaries. Reliab, availability and reliability simulation program.

ABS	The Acoustic Bubble Spectrometer; ABS is an acoustics based device that measures bubble size distributions and void fraction of bubbles in liquids. The device extracts the bubble population from acoustical measurements made at several frequencies. It consists of a set of two transducers/hydrophones connected to a computer. A data acquisition board controls the hydrophones' signal generation and acquisition. The PC is also used for analysis of the data, and provides, the sound speed and attenuation as a function of frequency.

Agileship	Simulation of ship manevuering.

Autometrix Sail Design Software	One of the most popular sail design software in the world. omputer molding is a direct approach to shaping 3-dimensional sails. You have complete control over sail shape and seam locations. SmSw mathematically computes the resulting panel shapes for the sail you describe. The shape that you design on the computer screen will be what you measure on the flying sail.

Bevelgage	Bevelgage has numerous useful design, geometric and shop calculations and provide materials, tooling, and fastener information for boatbuilders, marine designers, marine surveyors, cabinetmakers, woodworkers, and architects.

Buoy	Buoy is a user friendly software program that provides an accurate method to model towed bodies, ROV operations, and moored buoys and has been extensively verified with field data. Many of the drag coefficients have been refined with actual test data. As a result of twelve years of upgrades, this single comprehensive program is versatile and easy to use than. Extensive built-in libraries of wire rope, chain, line, industry standard oceanographic instruments and flotation allow the operator to quickly assemble a mooring by selecting the components and defining lengths.

Comet Acoustics	Comet utilizes direct and indirect boundary element methods and finite element methods to accurately predict the propagation, radiation and scattering of acoustic waves from fluid, foam, structures/solids and their interaction. COMET works with most design software to concurrently perform design and analysis functions.

Design Templates	Nice design templates from Hawaii Marine Company. These stuff covers the calculations for; Weights and Moments, Section Modulus for Framing Member, Tankage Summary, Trim & Stability Sheet and many more coming as easy to use MS Excel spreadsheets. Also some of them are free!

DHIWID	DHI has recently developed a hydrodynamic software tool for the computation of Wave Induced Deck loads on offshore platforms. The software tool is a numerical time domain model capable of computing load time series on partially and fully inundated platform decks. The model is developed to handle the following structural elements: tubular elements, beam elements, plate elements, closed bodies. The hydrodynamic loading procedures are based on the concept of change in fluid momentum taking into account the additional effects of drag and buoyancy forces.

DynaSim	DynaSim is a ship maneuvering simulator that incorporates state of the art models of ship maneuvering and is capable of executing simulations of complex maneuvers in real or accelerated time. The user controls the rudder, the engine, and lateral thrusters by mouse interaction with controls displayed on the monitor. Ship roll, wave forces, wind forces, and forces induced by the proximity of piers and other ships are modeled.

Engineering Tools	The Engineering Tools Suite has over 15 products, having a total of over 300 calculators for Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Machine Design, Structural Engineering, Pulp & Paper Tools, HVAC, Fluid Mechanics and many more...

FEWeld	FEWeld is a general mathematical tool for calculating weld requirements to meet performance criteria from the results of finite element analysis with shell elements. FEWeld calculates and organizes weld size requirements and other design parameters. A database driven GUI manages multiple weldment configurations (corresponding to multiple FEA Models), welds, load cases, and evaluation criteria simply and effectively. FEWeld is implemented for Ansys and Cosmos on Windows.

Fieldp	Field Precision creates finite-element simulation software for electromagnetic simulations. 2D and 3D solution packages cover a broad range of applications including electrostatics, magnet design, thermal transport, charged-particle devices, permanent magnet assemblies, electromagnetic radiation, shock hydrodynamics, microwave devices, pulsed power systems and RF heating of biological media.

Fluid	Fluid is program which solve incompressible, viscous, free surface fluid flow. It use The Mac Method to solve Navier-Stokes equations on Euler 2D grid. Algorithm is able to support 3D geometries, but it's not included at the moment.

Metal Man	A parametric solid modeling application for sheet-metal design. Design parts by virtual fabrication--not drafting. Produces cost estimates and shop reports. NC output available. Fast, intuitive and intelligent. MetalMan created from the ground up for the design professional who doesn't want a new career-just a simple 3-D sheet metal design tool.

Pansail	Pansail is an advanced vortex-lattice code that has been optimized for use in the design and analysis of yacht sails.

Patch Tool	PatchTool is a new sailmaking tool, enabling the quick and efficient design of custom sail corner reinforcement patches. The patches can then be saved, nested and cut in the same fashion as sail panels.

Piping Systems FluidFlow	Piping Systems FluidFlow is a design and simulation software for the design and optimisation of pipe networks, transporting compressible or incompressible fluids. FluidFlow solves flows and pressures within pipe networks transporting either compressible or incompressible fluids. Typical component types are pipes, valves, pumps, check valves, reducers, sprinklers, orifice plates, flow controllers, pressure controllers, pressure relief valves, junctions such as open pipes, bends, tee's, and crosses, as well as, network entry and exit points such as tanks, boreholes, or pipe take offs. Filters, heat exchangers, flowmeters, etc., can also be hydraulically defined and included.

PropCad	A propeller drawing software.

Propeller Design	The Propeller Design Program computes propeller performance, using various design and off-design methods, from standard Gawn and Wageningen B-series propeller charts or propeller data input by the user. Data for Kaplan propellers operating in nozzles are also provided. Various analysis methods can be used, depending on the propulsion data available and the propeller characteristics required. Resistance and propulsion data can be transferred from the Power Prediction Program or pasted from spreadsheets or other documents.

PropExpert	A software for propeller design and optimization.

PropellerSoft	PropellerSoft is a special CAD program for propeller design. PropellerSoft can be used to produce 3D as well as 2D propeller drawings. Its built-in blade, foil, hub and nozzle definition tables can be used to define and store standard and customized propeller series. PropellerSoft can be used as a pre-processor for propeller hydrodynamics analysis programs and finite-element structural analysis programs.

RealWave	RealWave is a program based on true physical equations that is able to calculate the propagation of waves in a polygonal mesh. Different waves with different properties can combine together in the same mesh, resulting in realistic interference effects. Also typical wave behavior as reflection and diffraction effects is easily achieved. Another interesting feature of RealWave is its ability to calculate the buoyancy of objects.

Sailflow	A 3D aerodynamic analysis tool specialy developed for sails. But there is not enough on-line information.

Sail Science	Sail Science is the developer and producer of three dimensional sail design and production software systems used by leading sail designers throughout the world.

ShaftKit	A software for shaft vibration analysis.

ShaftMaster	ShaftMaster is a modern, easy to use and effective software intended to perform calculation of shaft bearing initial offsets for newbuilded and repaired ships that satisfy all operational restrictions on the bearings and main engine or reduction gear as well as the technological restrictions at the alignment time. ShaftMaster allows to calculate; initial offsets of the bearings relatively of chosen reference line, loads on the bearings in every operational condition, stresses at the reference points in operation, thrust shaft flange loads in operation, boring parameters, bearing loads and tolerances at the alignment stages and more...

Shipgen	The program incorporates a small naval architecture calculations integrated module and has a dynamic connection with the Excel spreadsheet to which transmits in every modification of the lines the hydrostatic data of the new vessel. ShipGen uses a handful of basic ships (templates) perfectly faired and identified by their Bezier´s surfaces to generate the lines. Starting from this base, ShipGen makes up to 14 transformations from a lengthening to a modification of the trim and the raise of floor. module of Defcar system.

Sinda/Fluint	SINDA/FLUINT is a comprehensive finite-difference, lumped parameter (circuit or network analogy) tool for analyzing complex thermal/fluid systems.

SketchUp	SketchUp is deceptively simple, powerful software for creating, viewing, modifying and communicating 3D design concepts quickly and easily. Designed to enhance creativity and productivity; Anyone who loves sketching by hand but finds using CAD cumbersome or frustrating will appreciate SketchUp's approach...

Splash	Splash is a fun little wave/ripple simulator for water modeling with mesa (opengl). It runs on linux.

STL Editor	STL Editor is a Stereolithography (.stl) file viewing, editing and printing application. The .stl file format has become the Rapid Prototyping industry's standard data transmission format and is the format required to interact with stereolithography machines.

Stability Test	Stability Test Pro is an integrated application designed to help Naval Architects manage and assess stability test (incline experiment) data. The program can be used in the office to quickly process stability test data. Or, more importantly, Stability Test Pro can be used onboard vessels during stability tests to quickly generate an estimate of the lightship weight and center of gravity BEFORE concluding the stability test. This capability will save many hours of engineering time and minimize the likelihood of error.