The new product is intended to offer greater flexibility and increased design quality
Aveva has announced the release of Surface Manager 12.1, a new product in the Aveva Marine portfolio, which allows the transfer of surfaces to and from external systems, by the use of neutral standards.
The new product is intended to offer greater flexibility and increased design quality, and includes the capability to import surfaces from various formats, and graphically display the shape of the geometry. It supports commonly used formats including IGES, SAT, DML and STEP AP 203 for the import and export of surfaces. In addition, Surface Manager enables the extraction of surfaces from existing Aveva Marine projects for conversion into external formats for use in third-party software.
The new product offers tools for quality assessment of the managed surface and, if needed, can repair defects detected in surfaces transferred from third-party applications. For the sub-division of work packages, Surface Manager can split surfaces so shipyards can protect the investment and confidentiality of their hullforms by only distributing to sub-contractors the part of the hullform they need to do their work.
“Aveva Surface Manager gives Aveva Marine users the freedom to use the surface system of their choice and efficiently transfers the surfaces into Aveva Marine”, said Stéphane Neuvéglise, Head of Business Management – Marine Systems, Aveva. “It also increases design quality as Surface Manager allows users to check the imported surface quality and to repair surface defects before they are allowed to propagate in the design. Perhaps most importantly, it also helps shipyards to protect their Intellectual Property, by distributing only necessary components of the hullform to subcontractors”.
Source: The Motorship