Marine Design Workshop: Orca3D + ExpressMarine at McNeel Europe (Barcelona)

Marine Design Workshop: Orca3D + ExpressMarine by Stéphane Dardel

October 22-24, 2018

10.00h-18.00h

McNeel Europe S.L.

Roger de Flor, 32-34 bajos

08018 Barcelona (Spain)

Join us for a 3-day Orca3D + ExpressMarine workshop, co-organized by McNeel Europe and Nick Danese Applied Research, at McNeel Europe’s Barcelona offices, October 22-24.

Orca3D is a naval architecture plugin for hull design, hydrostatics intact stability, performance prediction, and weight tracking.

ExpressMarine, now in its version 2, enables ship designers to build up parametric 3D models of marine structures rapidly. The main advantage of the plugin is a dramatic reduction of modeling time, but more fundamentally, it allows the development of the 3D structural model very early in the design process.

In this three-day workshop participants acquire an in-depth understanding of the scopes of Orca3D and ExpressMarine. They go through hands-on exercises, from initial hull design, foundations of fairing techniques, hull fairness assessment, hydrostatics, and stability checks, to creating a parametric structural model with ExpressMarine. Discover the synergy offered by these complementary plugins, for example through the automatic update of the structural model from an updated Orca3D hull form.


Day 1

• Orca3D properties 
• Rhino refresher: modeling aids, Gumball, geometry edition 
• Hull assistants 
• Foundations of modeling and fairing techniques 
• NURBS theory 
• Point control 
• Surface analysis 

Day 2

• Hydrostatic calculations 
• Stability with criteria verification 
• Performance prediction 
• Weight tracking 
• Orca3D to ExpressMarine 
• ExpressMarine modeling environment and GUI 
• Modeling: Start from scratch 

Day 3

• Shell node 
• Stiffeners 
• Cutouts and openings 
• Custom objects 
• Outputs 
• Interface to ShipWeight

Course Requirements: Although open to all, the course is more directly intended for ship designers/ naval architects, professional and academic.
Reasonable proficiency with Rhino is expected from participants.
Any modern PC running Rhino 6 will be ok in the context of the training workshop.

Software Licenses: Orca3D and ExpressMarine licenses can be provided free for the duration of the training.

Course Fee: EUR 795 (+VAT). Full-time students and university teachers (proof of status required) will get a 50% discount. Please note that your seat is only confirmed once the payment is cleared. 

Maximum Number of Participants: 10 participants. If there is no quorum, the course will be canceled 15 days before.

Language: English

Educational seats are limited. Sign up now by contacting McNeel Europe here.