Creating a Digital Ship Model from AutoCAD Drawing

Abstract

Numerical modeling is emerging as a critical element of the ship design process. Automatic conversion of CAD into digital geometries is opening vast opportunities for rapid numerical modeling to evaluate ship designs and design philosophies and to quickly optimize design concepts to meet required performance and recoverability goals. As the ship concept is refined, simulations can continue to evaluate ship vulnerability and to begin the process of defining ship operations. This work demonstrates the feasibility of the automatic conversion of the CAD drawing into the model input files.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 08, 2005
Accession Number
ADA438700

Entities

People

  • Frederick W. Williams
  • Gregory Henley
  • Patricia A. Tatem
  • Tomasz Haupt

Organizations

  • Mississippi State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic
  • Computers
  • Conversion
  • Engineering
  • Geometry
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Identification
  • Recognition
  • Relational Databases
  • Ship Design
  • Simulations
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design