European Space Agency ESA that design platforms for computer-aided design of satellites are great for designing superyachts. Using the ESA Concurrent Design Facility platform, marine designers created and helped build the world's largest aluminum sailing yacht, the 81m Sea Eagle II.
The Sea Eagle II was built by the Royal Huisman shipyard in Vollenhove, the Netherlands. At the manufacturer's factory near Amsterdam, the yacht was equipped with a mast based on a composite carbon material. Later this year, the ship will be sea tested and handed over to the customer. It will be the seventh largest yacht in the world and the first to be designed using space age engineering ideas.
The ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) platform is widely used by the European Space Agency for the design of space satellites. This software tool allows parallel design processes at different stages and by different teams at the same time. Thus, the problems and inconveniences of the traditional engineering approach, when the project is created in several stages with the transfer of the results of each of them along the chain, disappear. The speed of work increases many times over, and time is money.
A common environment and design model for all participants in the process makes it possible to assess the feasibility of the project and the need to make changes as soon as one of the developers makes changes to the project. The convenience of the tool was appreciated not only by ESA, but also by European business. Today, more than 50 development centers in Europe have the ESA Concurrent Design Facility platform, although most of them still work for the European Space Agency. And 10 design centers work outside the space industry.
Designers from the Royal Huisman shipyard in Vollenhove were trained by ESA to work with the CDF platform. The very first project on this platform for the development of the superyacht Sea Eagle II proved its viability. Now the shipbuilder uses parallel design for all of its new projects, as well as projects related to conversion and maintenance of old ships.
Source: 3dnews.ru