“The 3D viewer of our application is built around HOOPS Communicator,” said Sebastian. This enables even the largest ship design to be visualized in order to show the design to other stakeholders, prepare marketing materials, or better understand complex spatial relations within the ship. For a browser-based platform like Naval Architect, advanced 3D web visualization is a necessity, and HOOPS Communicator delivers stunning graphics for 3D and 2D engineering data.

Additionally, the company is using Parasolid, the world’s premier 3D geometric modeling kernel technology, which is resold by Tech Soft 3D and tightly integrated with HOOPS SDKs.

The company is making use of HOOPS Communicator for web based visualization and HOOPS Exchange for data import and translation. Turning to Tech Soft 3D, a leading global provider of development tools, provided Naval Architect with a series of powerful SDKs to help expedite the development of their platform. “We’re not a huge company in order to meet those development deadlines, we knew we’d need technology partners that could support our vision and help us meet our goal.”Ĭomprehensive Array of Tools Accelerate Development “We plan to release a closed beta version by the end of this year, an open beta in the new year, and then the full commercial system by the end of next year” said Sebastian.

It’s based on the same ideas and concepts, and it has the same benefits of enhancing collaboration and optimizing processes on very large and complex projects, helping to eliminate costly errors.” To bring its innovative product to market, Naval Architect set an ambitious development schedule for itself. “We’re trying to get the shipbuilding industry to move towards SIM: ship information modeling. “The AEC space has embraced building information modeling, or BIM,” said Derrick Wan, Co-Founder and Head of Business Development at Naval Architect. “We are doing that through browser-based software that puts a digital ship model and all the relevant project information in a single place.” In this way, Naval Architect is allowing the digitalization that has taken place in industries like building & construction to gain more of a foothold in the world of shipbuilding. “Our mission is to connect the stakeholders of shipbuilding projects in order to get the right information to the right people at the right time,” explained Sebastian Greshake, Founder & CEO of Naval Architect. Headquartered in Rostock, Germany, Naval Architect is a young company focused on building the next-generation cloud design platform for shipbuilding.

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