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A Moo'ving Experience...
June 12, 2008, 02:36 AM Jay TedeschiWell, here I sit, United flight 1194, Vancouver to San Francisco. We left almost an hour and a half late, but at least we are on our way… someone is going to have to explain to me sometime how Bay Area “low lying cloud cover” or “marine layer” (aka “fog”) can cause such massive delays. I mean, maybe in the days before IFR I can see how that would be a problem, but the lack of visual on final just does not seem like it should add all that much additional time for spacing between flights. In any case…
I am on my way home from attending the ShipConstructor Super User Group meeting in Victoria, BC. As I am not sure of the total number of SC users worldwide in totality, I am not sure what kind of cross section this represents, but the 40 or so who attended most definitely seemed to be the cream of the crop. Hence the prefix of “Super” I suppose…
In any case, as ShipConstructor is an AutoCAD based product, all of these users are familiar with it, so we wanted to show them something really flashy. Fortunately we have just the right products on hand to both support and show a compelling Industrial Design story, that is also quite visually appealing. While a large portion of the SC community do in fact design larger utilitarian vessels, e.g. Ice-Breakers, Ferries, tankers, support vessels, etc. etc., there is a good sized group that does large luxury yachts. This is our sweet spot…
The workflow which was demonstrated centered around the use of AliasStudio/Sketchbook Pro as the conceptual design tool best suited to perform the type of design they require. Reference Manager, new to 2009, was used to show the integration of previously created hull, deck and superstructure model data. A rendering of this data was used as a sketch environment, and background for the proposed new cabin interior. Technical surfaces were then created on the sketches and trimmed to existing cabin geometry.
Next up, we showed how Inventor/Inventor Pro can be used by all ShipConstructor users as a component creation tool. A pump assembly was opened with Inventor, but the motor for the pump was imported from a vendor’s site via STEP. Once imported, Feature Recognition was used to convert some of the base geometry into sketch based parametric features that could be leveraged by the designer.
Justin Pacquin of SSI then gave an excellent presentation showing how Autodesk Vault can be best used by ShipConstructor customers for managing the output sheet sets created to document the design in ShipConstructor. I followed things up with a brief but compelling look at Showcase, and it’s value for both design validation and presentation graphics.
All in all, a very enjoyable presentation, and the users on hand were certainly enthusiastic. A quick drive up to the airport where my fanbase was on hand to see me off… aren’t they cute? There was not a dry eye in the place.
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September 10, 2008 03:21 PM Greg Heeley
Hi Jay I am an MSD AE for teh only MSD reseller based in New Zealan. We have a very strong boat building industry here, that mostly uses MaxSurf for hull design, Rhino for the rest and Autocad for Detailing. We are looking to hold a series of seminars on Alia/Inventor for boat design (we have only just recieved our NFR for Alias and hopefully will be training soon.) Would you have a script/Avi/PPT of the above demo you ran. It would be of huge assistance. Many thanks for any help Regards Greg Heeley MSD Cadpros Systems Ltd +64 9 302 4028 greg.h@cadpro.co.nz
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