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
Visit the Orca3D virtual booth at IBEX or the SNAME Maritime Convention to learn more about Orca3D and how it can streamline your design process and improve your designs. Orca3D for RhinoMarine specific functionality in Rhino for hull design, stability, speed/power, and weight tracking. Orca3D adds marine design and analysis features to Rhino, including: Computational … 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
In the past, marine design with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was expensive, required the expertise of a specialist, and wasn’t practical on ordinary engineering computers. Now Orca3D Marine CFD has changed all of that, coupling the power and ease-of-use of Rhino, Orca3D, and Simerics MP with specially designed templates to allow naval architects to easily … Read more