The process we used was to mesh up a block around the boat that represents the sail, then update the mesh to change the shape of the sails. We have worked since 1996 with Pro/E and ICEM to be able to get a boat sailing in water in 3D.

Usually CFD uses data imported from IGES that is not parametric and requires large amounts of manual CAD time. 'Our CFD process is unique in that Pro/ENGINEER coupled with ICEMCFD and MECHANICA Motion can automatically produce highly accurate parametric meshes for design optimization.

Good coupling of the MCAD and CFD details. I think PTC would (obviously) disagree with you. (one thing more, the company will just have 3 or 4 cad users/licenses) RE: Pro/e wildfire or catia V5 for Yacht Design & Engineering mloew (Automotive) 28 Mar 04 21:09 I was quite convinced with proe, up to the point that i was studying it by myself with the demo version thaty came with the book (that its quite goog actually pro/e wildfire by lamit)Ĭan any of you give me some advice on what to do. We were quite sure until last week to move to proe wildfire, but a commercial from catia v5 came to us and explained their software. Another thing is that to make an structural analisys, we have to go out of MS and use some fea programs with problems importing geometry and so forth. Our models are complete and precise, but we are finding that there is no way of modification of the model, once you have drawn it, and further more there is no real link between the 2d detailed drawings and the 3d model.

We are a Yacht Design office in Barcelona, and we are currently using Microstation for designing in 3d.

Ptc creo elements pro v5