Seanaptic - ANSYS Interface now available

Seanaptic is a plugin for Rhino that allows naval architects to model parametric ship structures with extreme efficiency.

The release of Seanaptic 7, now compatible with Rhino 7, has achieved a significant milestone by implementating the interfacing with ANSYS Mechanical and SpaceClaim. Full geometries of naval structures can now be directly exported to ANSYS for finite element analysis. Seanaptic pre-processes the geometry to ensure connected meshes of incredible quality while complete structural parameters of plates and beams are transferred directly to the FEA model, obtaining efficiencies never seen before.

What usually took weeks or even months can now be achieved in days or even hours. This golden bundle of Rhino, Seanaptic, and ANSYS will render traditional FEA pre-processing obsolete!

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Seanaptic - Parametric ship structures in Rhino

Seanaptic is a plugin for Rhino for naval architects to model parametric ship structures with extreme efficiency.

Thanks to the advanced automation algorithms and the presence of the 3D model next to the 2D drawings, the modeling process is highly accelerated.

Data such as weight and center of gravity are permanently available and updated live as the model is built.

The modeling time is similar to scaling methods, thus offering an ideal alternative when similar vessel data is not available. Results from a 3D model can now be obtained very early during the concept phase, before basic design.

The model can be exported to other specialized software for detailed engineering, class drawings, weight distribution and tracking, FEM analysis, etc. 

Though specialized for marine design, Seanaptic is adaptable to any other industry where parametric modeling and object weight tracking is necessary.

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Seanaptic 5.0 - Accelerator for ShipConstructor

The new release of Seanaptic 5.0 includes the Accelerator for ShipConstructor module, developed in partnership with SSI Corporate, leveraging the powerful SSI Genesis API. 

The Accelerator for ShipConstructor module allows direct export of parametric Seanaptic ship structures into ShipConstructor with no compromise on quality but with an unparalleled reduction in detail design man-hours. Save up to 80% of the effort and time required to generate a full structural marine project!

A 3-month trial is available at https://www.seanaptic.com/shipconstructor-accelerator

Free academic version.

Seanaptic 3.0 release

Seanaptic for Rhino lets naval architects model parametric ship structures with extreme efficiency.

Seanaptic 3.0 is now available with dozens of improvements and new features, including a 3D Components Management module for Weight Tracking of all items on board. This can replace spreadsheets and other table tools with parametric linked 3D representations. 

There's a 90-day free trial available and a free version for students and universities.

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Seanaptic v2.1 - Parametric ship structures plugin

Supercharge your preliminary ship design with Seanaptic v2.1, the parametric marine structure plugin for Rhino. Now compatible with Rhino 6, Seanaptic is packed with advanced modeling automation algorithms.

Get significant time saving on weight and center of gravity calculations, space assessments, FEA preprocessing, optimizations, exports to other production engineering systems.

Try free for 90 days. Free for students and universities. Major discounts for small design studios and freelancers.

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Seanaptic 4.5 release - Bill of Materials and Color Coding

The Rhino plugin Seanaptic allows naval architects to model parametric ship structures with extreme efficiency.

Seanaptic 4.5 capable of exporting the Bill of Materials is now available. Blocks Division, Annotated Class Drawings, Components Management, Color Coding, Parametric 3D Modelling, Weight and CoG calculations are a few of its main features. 

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Free for universities and students.

Marine Design & Engineering Meeting Barcelona - May 8, 2019

Rhino “Marine Design & Engineering” Meeting

Facultat de Nàutica Barcelona

May 8, 2019

As a naval architect, engineer, yacht designer, 3D modeler or software developer, this is a unique event you cannot miss: A collaboration between McNeel, Facultat de Nàutica UPC, and Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Navales y Oceánicos.

In Barcelona, at the historic Facultat de Náutica at Pla de Palau, international industry experts will present their latest projects and their state-of-the-art CAD/CAM/CAE/VR toolsets.

Keynote speakers include Steve Baer (Robert McNeel & Associates), Menno Deij - van Rijswijk (Maritime Research Institute Netherlands - MARIN), Iuliu Prepelita (Seanaptic Ltd.), Liam Woolley (Pivot / Goldfish), Gerard Petersen (RhinoCentre NL), Stéphane DARDEL (NDAR / Orca3D / ExpressMarine), Matthieu Arnold (Ship-ST), Ramón Cárceles (VisualARQ by Asuni), Dariusz Sawicki (Prometso), Javi Ferrín and Adriá Fradera (De Antonio Yachts).

Get hands-on with live software demonstrations from solution providers in hull design and fairing, parametric engineering, CFD, piping, virtual and augmented reality, visualization, product configurators, and much more. 

Confirmed exhibitors are icreatia, Mindesk, NDAR, Seanaptic Ltd UK, ShapeDiver, Ship-ST, VARJO, Orca3D, ExpressMarine, Packhunt.io, Maverick Render and VisualARQ.

Meet the McNeel staff and learn more about the new functionalities in Rhino WIP (SubD, Cycles, QuadMesh, Voxels) and Rhino's royalty-free developer tools, Frameworks and Ecosystem (RhinoCommon, Rhino.Inside, Rhino Compute, RhinoVR, YAK, Grasshopper, food4Rhino).

Early Bird tickets until April 15. Register now!



* Want to be a speaker or an exhibitor? Contact carlos@mcneel.com.

Food4Rhino News

Food4Rhino, the plugin community server by McNeel, with more than 460 Rhino and Grasshopper apps and 200 resources, recently reached 3,500,000 downloads!

Check out the newest developments in AEC, jewelry, visualization, CAD/CAM, robots, CFD, FEA, environmental analysis, marine, AR/VR/MR, footwear, games, volumetric modeling, structural optimization, product configurators, form-finding, urban and landscape, BIM translators, GUI customization, and much more!

Here are some recently added new apps:

Magnetizing Floor Plan Generator: An exploration of various ways of generating floor plans for public buildings.

Wallacei: An evolutionary engine to run evolutionary simulations in Grasshopper through highly detailed analytic tools.

OpenNest: Nesting in Rhino 6 and Grasshopper.

Kiwi!3D: Isogeometric analysis in Rhino.

Smart Menu for Rhino: A customizable, productive and easy-to-learn GUI tool.

CreateQuadMesh: Create quad meshes using the Instant Meshes and QuadriFlow open source meshing projects.

Seanaptic: Model parametric ship structures with extreme efficiency.

Mastering Surfacing in Rhino: This book is written for anyone who wants to improve their surfacing skills and achieve curvature continuity surfaces without plugins and expensive CAD software.

Trammel: Design a 5-way Archimedes trammel by adjusting slider lengths and widths for physical clearance.

PedSim: Run simplified pedestrian simulation in real time in Grasshopper for demonstration purposes.