Creating a Digital Ship Model from AutoCAD Drawing

Abstract : Numerical modeling is emerging as a critical element of the ship design process. Automatic conversion of CAD into digital geometries is opening vast opportunities for rapid numerical modeling to evaluate ship designs and design philosophies and to quickly optimize design concepts to meet required performance and recoverability goals. As the ship concept is refined, simulations can continue to evaluate ship vulnerability and to begin the process of defining ship operations. This work demonstrates the feasibility of the automatic conversion of the CAD drawing into the model input files.