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Interface Design and Systems Integration Projects
Bespoke interfaces, data translation, and systems integration can help companies leverage existing functionality across their network of software applications, partners, suppliers and customers. Interface design is one of Quintic's many strong suits. Below are some of the projects we have recently completed.
2D/3D Integration: 3D IGES Interface for Software in Support of Ship Classification
As a development partner of Lloyd's Register Group, Quintic has been working on a variety of projects relating to the shipbuilding industry (our 2D Design Systems page lists further projects completed for Lloyd's Register).
As specialists in the area of 2D/3D integration, Quintic was asked to develop software which could be integrated into Lloyd's proprietary systems in aid of ship classification, including its Special Service Craft (SSC) and Naval Ship Rules (NSR) software.
Quintic developed a specialised ship hull import interface, which allows users to import key data from a 3D IGES-based model of a ship's hull form into the SSC and NSR software.
The import process automatically calculates and imports numerous longitudinal and transverse sectional views of the ship to support the classification process.
This saves a vast amount of time in terms of data input, and drastically reduces the overall classification time, facilitating increased design synthesis, and therefore producing a better quality design.
Data Interface Management Engine for Ship Design Systems
The aim of this project, commissioned by Lloyd's Register, was to integrate use of Lloyd's Register's ship design verification software into some of the world's major ship design packages, leveraging the design verification features of the Lloyd's Register software early in the design process.
Quintic's experts,liaising with LR's project managers, as well as the technical staff of major ship design system suppliers, developed a Data Interface Management Engine (DIME), a software program that uses the third party data, presented in a common data format, and provides:
- data verification, allowing users to enter any required values which cannot be supplied by the originating ship design software
- a translation process, to translate the data into formats required by Lloyd's various ship design verification applications, including RulesCalc and Shipright SDA (Lloyd's Finite Element Analysis package)
- drivers for the target applications
- import data translation filters
LR and Quintic are constantly improving and updating DIME to cope with new rules and requirements, including the even more stringent Common Structural Rules for Tankers:
Quintic's developers have been working on ways to get as much data out of ship design packages as possible, without the need for suppliers to enhance their own software, and have also been implementing some of the new requirements in ShipRight, extending and improving existing functionality.
Container Ship Design Data Import Tool
Recently Quintic added the ability to directly import container ship design data into the ShipRight SDA product, meaning designers no longer have to enter variables manually to test their designs against LR rules and regulations.AutoCAD® Lines Plan (Ship Hull) Importer
Also, a new import tool for AutoCAD® lines plan drawings of ship hulls was developed, which allows customers to open existing drawings, preview them in a dialog provided, filter out unwanted data, and assemble them into a 3D hull.Integration of "PanelView" 3D Visualisation Application and Sub-Structure Analysis
In addition, Quintic integrated the standalone "PanelView" 3D visualisation application we developed into DIME, including ship sub-structure analysis tools. Quintic's developers also included ship hull form data from two major ship design systems in DIME and LR's ShipRight SDA product.
"Space Ambiguity Wizard"
Additional functionality was added to DIME to deal with situations where insufficient information was included in data from third party systems. A "Space Ambiguity Wizard" was created, which discovers ambiguities in space boundary definitions (such as oil storage spaces) as defined by the original 2D drawing. It presents a 3D model visualising all the possible spaces based on the data provided, and allows the user to select the actual space intended.
Update to an "Ultimate Strength Analysis Tool" for Ship Designs and Data Translation
Lloyd's Register Marine Division (LR) asked Quintic to implement changes to an "ultimate strength analysis tool" it developed for the RulesCalc application. The tool analyses the strength of a ship and attempts to predict which parts of the ship will "snap" as the ship is bent. The work included changes to accommodate the new Common Ship Rules for bulk carriers. Quintic modified the interface with RulesCalc. Because the data format in RulesCalc was very different to that required by the ultimate strength analysis tool, there is a complex translation process for getting the data out of RulesCalc and into the tool. The results are then imported back into RulesCalc. Quintic's developers also made some changes to improve the manner in which results were displayed.
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