Keeping up with demand
Keeping ahead of the game in design is an important part of keeping a ship design company competitive. Getting quick access to new design tools that come on to the market and having quick turn around times, ensures business flows.
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hipConstructor has released its subscription advantage package that it say’s will keep designers and
companies at the forefront of the design race. Te package will allow existing customers access to new tools before they are released to the general market. “Te package gives customers access to
new features and additional features that may never be released in the full version of ShipConstructor giving the subscriber an advantage,” said Mark Waldie, PR write/ coordinator, ShipConstructor. “Te launch of the package is actually the launch of the plan, as yet we are still deciding the other features that will be included,” he added. Te subscription pack is an add-on to the
already existing annual subscription from ShipConstructor that allows customers access to upgrades, maintenance and support. Te advantage package gives the customer access to three features, such as part view that will allow the user to any part or portion of a model and viewed in any type of drawing. It will also let the user view only the information that is required when performing a task and therefore, reducing rework that may need to be included into a design. ShipConstructor adds that in contrast to using the current ShipConstructor M-Link technology, this can also greatly increase performance. Te second feature is project explorer, a
new feature that will allow easier navigation of a project. Project Explorer will be a new
Part view will allow users to view any part or portion in any type of drawing.
Project explorer offers the user quicker and easier navigation to jump between project drawings.
palette allowing users to quickly view, open, and switch between project drawings. Adding to this the package will also include the Auto dimension feature which is intended to speed up dimension detailing in production drawings by using AutoCAD’s dimensioning function within the ShipConstructor environment. “ShipConstructor has based the
development of the auto dimensioning feature on AutoCAD from AutoDesk. In auto dimensioning the user can select different points of a steel sheet for example and it will show you the dimensions of those points. Tis facility in the package will speed up the process for designs, so they do not have to go through each point separately,” said Mr Waldie. “We follow what AutoDesk does as some
things that they incorporate into their soſtware is similar to what we have in ours. If they have a good idea in their soſtware then we like to model how we do our on them, as they have show that it works,” Mr Waldie added.
The Naval Architect January 2011 Over the next year ShipConstructor is
looking to develop the features that it has in the advantage package to be able to offer customers more. Te idea behind the added features, are to give customers testers of packages that are condensed versions, which include specific tools that ShipConstructor believes will be of most use to the user. Tese features may then be expanded into the full ShipConstructor soſtware at a later date. “We are looking to include a whole lot of
other features into the package. We will see what the feedback is like from these three features and if they are popular we will develop them into the regular soſtware,” said Mr Waldie. ShipConstructor will see what feedback
it gets from these three features before it launches the expanded programmes into the full version of ShipConstructor soſtware. Te company expects that it will be adding new features to the soſtware at regular intervals, the software features will come from customer demand from the feedback that it gets from the regular soſtware and also this new package. NA
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