ShipConstructor 2014 – R2.1
ShipConstructor 2014 R2.1, released from SSI, has been specifically designed to rapidly respond to emerging trends in ship design and engineering as identified by SSI’s innovative new Client Council program.
“Both technology and industry requirements are evolving quickly so our clients continually need to adapt,” explained SSI CTO Denis Morais. “SSI’s Client Council program has been designed to address this by having focus groups of similar clients propose new features that SSI can quickly incorporate into our software. ShipConstructor 2014 R2.1 is the first of our Client Council releases and I’m pleased with how quickly things came together. Within just a few months, we hammered out an agreement, developed and tested the new functionalities requested, and have now released new features that can immediately address clients’ pain points and enhance their competitiveness.“
CEO Darren Larkins also weighed in, “These Client Councils are the logical next step for SSI. We have always intended our ship designing & ship building products to be industry specific, reflecting the requirements ship builders ask for. As SSI has grown into a global company, those requirements sometimes differ from region to region and these Client Councils provide a level of consensus for those requirements.“
The group suggested several ways to enhance their productivity such as a new split plate command, a new fillet cut type for stiffener endcuts, increased pipe and HVAC connection tolerance, as well as the ability to create MarineDrafting views in other types of drawings. These features have now been incorporated into ShipConstructor 2014 R2.1.
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