A study on structural CAD data conversion between AVEVA MARINE^® and Intergraph Smart 3D^®

ABSTRACT

The plant and shipbuilding industry is different from other industries owing to its complex layout, uniquely designed products, and a long life cycle of products. Client organisations are endeavouring to use the information obtained from the design during the operation and maintenance period; therefore, they require the CAD model data from the contractor. When a client requests a CAD model format other than the CAD system possessed by the EPCI company (or contractor), the CAD model format must be converted to the corresponding system. Manual model rebuilding is the primarily used plant and ship CAD model-conversion method; it requires a significant amount of time and resources and converted-model verification. To reduce the costs involved, various studies are being conducted that use the standard and commercial formats. In this study, we analyse and implement the method of converting the hull structure model to another CAD model.

KEYWORDS:

• CAD model conversion
• CAD data exchange
• structure model
• ship CAD
• plant CAD

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) grant funded by the Korea Government (MOTIE) (No. P0001968, The Competency Development Program for Industry Specialist); the Technology Innovation Program (No.: 20011164, Development of Performance Monitoring and Failure Prediction and Diagnosis Technology for Engine System of Autonomous ships) funded By the Ministry of Trade, industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea).

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology: [Grant Number 20011164]; Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology: [Grant Number P0001968].