SHIPBUILDING
Marine projects demand sophisticated design, resulting in staggering amounts of data, documents, complex schedules and huge quantities of materials and resources. The multi-disciplinary nature of engineering and design means that most shipyards employ a wide range of 2D and 3D design applications, from a host of different software suppliers that provide little or no operational integration.
The Virtalis Development Team has worked with numerous massive shipbuilding data sets over the years, from the Type 45 Frigate for the Royal Navy to the Astute class of submarines for BAE SYSTEMS. This has given the team expertise in dealing with not only the enormous virtual models, but also with a wide range of different CAD software providers. Uniquely, Virtalis has development agreements in place with all the industry leaders, including PTC, Dassault Systèmes, Siemens and Autodesk.
Virtalis has developed shipbuilding specific applications too. The first installation of the Virtalis Tribon Adaptor was at Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company Limited, a leading Chinese shipbuilder. They reported that, not only is our Tribon Adaptor faster than any other package that purports to do the same thing, the quality of the translated data is unsurpassed, especially in the sphere
of pipe data translation. Virtalis’ breakthrough allowed models created in Tribon to be easily translated into PTC’s DIVISION MockUp without any loss of data or formatting. Similarly, the VR models could move in the opposite direction and be translated into Tribon.
More recently Virtalis has worked with SENER to create a similar adaptor for FORAN. Another market-leading software package within shipbuilding, FORAN has been developed by SENER for more than 45 years and was created for the design, engineering and production of ships and off-shore platforms.
By broadening the Virtalis suite of adaptors, drivers and VR enablers, we have just created Virtalis Exchange. The Virtalis Exchange portfolio of translators includes:
• PTC software
• 3ds Max
• PDMS
• FORAN
• Tribon.
• Virtalis Visionary Render
The Virtalis Exchange allows models created in various packages to be exported to a file format ready for use in VR; including materials, polygons, vertices, metadata and some animations.
