Rhino and Orca3D at METS Trade, Amsterdam, 18-20 November

 

METSTRADE 2025
NDAR booth 05-257, Hall 5
November 18-20 
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

METSTRADE is a prime opportunity to connect, exchange ideas, and explore the latest marine innovations for naval architecture and shipbuilding.

Meet the NDAR Team at Hall 5, booth 05-257, and learn from them the latest developments in Orca3D, the powerful naval architecture and marine design plugin for Rhino.

🔍 What's new? The NDAR Naval Architecture Solution combines the Rhino platform with marine plugins Orca3D, ExpressMarine, VisualARQ and all Rhino plugins, seamlessly integrating specialist applications GHS, ShipWeight, MAESTRO Marine, NavCad.

📅 Let’s Meet! To ensure dedicated time to your specific needs, please schedule a meeting in advance with the NDAR Team:

• 📧 Email: ndar@ndar.com
• 📞 Phone: +33 (0)4 92 91 13 24

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NDAR at Nor-Shipping - Oslo, Norway (3-5 June, 2025)

The NDAR team will be at Nor-Shipping, in Oslo, Norway, from 3-5 June 2025.

Nor-Shipping is undoubtedly a great opportunity to meet, chat, and see what’s new in our naval architecture and shipbuilding software solutions.

The NDAR Naval Architecture Solution combines the Rhino platform with marine plugins Orca3D, ExpressMarine, VisualARQ, and all Rhino plugins, seamlessly integrating specialist applications GHS, ShipWeight, MAESTRO Marine, and NavCad.

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IBEX 2024 - Orca3D Marine CFD Workshop

Where: Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida 
When: Monday, September 30, 2024
Time: 12:00 pm–5 pm EST
Cost: $175/person (lunch will be provided)

Whether you are a current user of Orca3D Marine CFD or interested in becoming a user, this Orca3D Marine CFD workshop is for you! The workshop will help you improve your designs using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). CFD has proven to be a very useful technology for marine design, and its use is now becoming widespread throughout the small-to-mid-size boat design community.  

The Orca3D Marine CFD workshop is held with the IBEX show in Tampa, Florida. Registration for IBEX is now open and is part of the IBEX Attendee Registration process (in Step 6, Education, under Pre-Conference Sessions). This is an in-person event; no streaming or recording will be available. 

More information here.

Space will be limited, so please be sure to register soon.

Join us at IBEX and see Orca3D Marine Design Software for Rhino at Booth 2-345 to see how this can become a valuable tool for your design process.  

 

food4Rhino webinar: Orca3D - Marine Design in Rhino (Advanced Stability and other Version 3 Updates) - June 19 at 4 PM CEST

food4Rhino webinar: Orca3D - Marine Design in Rhino (Advanced Stability and other Version 3 Updates)

June 19, 2024, at 4 PM CEST

Join us for a 1-hour webinar highlighting the new features in the marine design plugin Orca3D. 

The focus will be on the new Advanced Hydrostatics & Stability module, with tank and compartment definition, tank tables, load cases with fluid and fixed loads, free surface effects, intact and damage stability, and stability criteria evaluation. 

Speakers:

• Larry Leibman: Naval Architect and founding partner of Orca3D, LLC. Larry has over 35 years of experience in vessel design and software development for naval architects.
• Bruce Hays: Naval Architect and a founding partner of Orca3D, LLC. Bruce has been working in marine design software for almost 40 years.
• Stéphane Dardel: Naval Architect at NDAR. Stéphane has considerable experience in all fields of the Marine and Yachting industries. He actively participated in the recent Orca3D developments by providing hands-on feedback from practical experience.

Free registration...

Now available: The much-anticipated Orca3D Version 3

Orca3D Version 3 is compatible with Rhino 7 and 8. 

If you currently use Orca3D Version 1 or 2, upgrade to Orca3D Version 3 to be compatible with Rhino 8.

Orca3D's packaging has changed in Version 3. In prior versions of Orca3D, you could purchase Level 1 and Level 2, with Level 2 adding to the Level 1 functionality. In Version 3, instead, four modules are available and may be purchased in any combination.

• Design: This includes the Hull Design and fairing and Basic Hydrostatics and stability features. It is equivalent to the previous Level 1.
• Analysis: This includes the Speed/Power feature, the CFD interface, and the Weight & Cost feature. It is equivalent to the previous Level 2, except that it does not include the Level 1 functionality. The Analysis module may be purchased without the Design module.
• Advanced Stability: Includes compartmentation and tank modeling, fluid and solid loads, unlimited load cases, free surface effects, intact and damaged stability with stability criteria evaluation, and tank tables. This is a major new module.
• Orca3D Marine CFD: Requires the Analysis module as a prerequisite.

Watch a 3-minute video highlighting the features of Orca3D Version 3.

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Orca3D adds Advanced Stability Module WIP

 

Orca3D Advanced Stability Module Work-in-Progress (WIP) Available

Orca 3D Version 3 WIP introduces a completely new module focused on advanced stability analysis. The new module includes:

• Define compartments and tanks.
• Set permeability and loads.
• Run multiple load cases.
• Calculate intact and damaged stability.

Like Rhino, major version updates of Orca3D begin with a series of WIP releases to allow users to participate in the development process by providing feedback to our development team.

More details on the Advanced Stability Module...