Join McNeel Europe for a one-hour webinar on 19th June 2024, at 3 PM BST (4 PM CEST), highlighting the new features in Rhino’s marine design plugin Orca3D. Click here to register for the Zoom Webinar. The focus will be on the new Advanced Hydrostatics & Stability module, with tank and compartment definition, tank tables, … Read more
When it comes to marine design, precision and efficiency are paramount. Traditional methods often fall short of meeting the complex demands of designing boats, ships, and underwater structures. That’s where Rhino and Orca come into play, transforming the way marine design is approached. In this blog post, we’ll explore how these powerful tools are revolutionising … Read more
Booth G99Navalia Shipbuilding Trade ShowVigo, Spain24th – 26th May 2022 Navalia has two main objectives; to give the shipbuilding sector its own international image, and to introduce them to the most important present-day economies. Since its inception in 2006, NAVALIA has seen 90 countries participating in the exhibition, over 600 represented brands, and visitors exceeding … Read more
Orca3D now includes Grasshopper components for automating Orca3D’s hydrostatics and stability calculations! This update, Version 2.0.22, is free to Version 2 users and is available for download now. Details of other improvements in this release can be found here. If you aren’t familiar with Grasshopper, it is a graphical scripting editor that is included with … Read more
Guillaume Verdier, one of yacht racing’s most prolific designers, uses Rhino to design for the Ocean Race. Verdier brings together the very best minds in the offshore sailing world to work collaboratively across all areas including structural design to routing, engineering to computational fluid dynamics. Rhino is a powerful 3D modeler for all phases of … Read more
In this latest release of Orca3D, Marine Design for Rhino, users can now display and adjust the mesh used in a hydrostatics calculation. The Hydrostatics form now includes an “Adjust Meshes” button that behaves similarly to that found in the CFD Options form. Users can highlight mesh faces as a threshold on an aspect ratio … Read more
Maneuvering and Other Advanced Features Orca3D Marine CFD Webinar 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM Eastern Standard Time (14:30 – 15:30 GMT)Wednesday, February 26th Register Now Join the Orca3D team as they showcase the advanced analyses available in the Premium version of Orca3D Marine CFD. Computational Fluid Dynamics experts from Orca3D and Simerics, Inc. to learn … Read more
Is Shipbuilding Ready for a Digital Transformation?09:55 in Room 3 at PI Marine 202020th – 21st JanuaryHamburg, Germany Denis Morais, co-CEO of SSI, and Nick Danese, director of NDAR will be leading a focus group asking the question; “Is Shipbuilding Ready for a Digital Transformation?” Register for PI Marine 2020
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Version 1.5 Release Orca3D Version 1.5 is now available for Rhino 5, incorporating all of the functionality of the Version 1.4 WIP, including the Marine CFD interface, ISO 12217-2 STIX stability index calculator, and stability criteria evaluation. New Licensing System Orca3D now uses a new licensing system. The old system had a conflict with the … Read more