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News Release from: Dassault Systemes | Subject: Catia design authoring software
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 21 September 2007
Software chosen for yacht design
Barbeito and Associates will use Catia for every facet of yacht design, including hull design, steel structure design, piping and interior design.
Arthur M Barbeito and Associates has chosen Dassault Systemes' (DS') Catia design authoring software as its primary design platform for its line of yachts Rand North America worked in close consultation with Barbeito to find the solution that best streamlined Barbeito's design and manufacturing planning processes
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 29 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Barbeito and Associates specialises in highly customised 50-160m megayachts with luxury interiors.
The company will use Catia for every facet of yacht design, including hull design, steel structure design, piping and interior design.
It also plans to use the Delmia digital manufacturing solution for communicating production information with the shipyards that build Barbeito's designs.
"We were wasting a lot of time going to one application for conceptual surface design, then another for the steel detailing, and another for the piping and equipment", said Arthur Barbeito, company founder and President.
"The different systems also multiplied the time it took to modify a design because a change in one system had to be manually repeated in the others".
"With Catia, we have all of our essential functionality in one system".
"We expect Catia's combination of advanced design functionality and scalability to make us more efficient by orders of magnitude".
The designer recently partnered with Wuhan Nanhua High-Speed Ship Engineering, a Chinese shipyard that uses Dassault Systemes' Catia design authoring software.
The single platform collaboration between designer and shipyard, a result of the shipbuilding industry's continuing adoption of Dassault Systemes' PLM technology, is anticipated to yield significant efficiencies.
"Barbeito's designs have to combine space-age engineering with elegant aesthetics".
"Catia's integration and range of functionality will give Barbeito's staff more flexibility to create innovative designs that meet their clients' expectations", said Dan Smith, Vice President, business development, Rand North America.
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