Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2025
Advancing 3D software and digital workflows
French state-owned shipbuilder, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, has signed a collaborative agreement with Napa, a ClassNK-owned maritime software and digital design house, to develop advanced 3D software and digital workflows. The partners will deploy Napa Steel, a structural design tool, integrated with software used in the production design process, to improve communication and data flows between engineers and naval architects. Explaining the rationale for the move, the companies said that there is no single software system that can meet all the needs in the ship design process....