PTC Extends Shipbuilding’s Product Development Processes

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced CADDS 5 15.0, the newest release of its specialized CAD/CAM solution for shipbuilding. CADDS 5 and Optegra can help large, dispersed teams create massive, highly complex assemblies within stringent schedules.

CADDS 5, which offers adaptable, hybrid-modeling capabilities that enable users to optimize their design approach to meet specific product development needs, includes shipbuilding specific enhanced capabilities: ship reference system, clash detection and management, routed systems design, automated definition of deck and hull joints, and flexible manufacturing output control.

Key enhancements include a single graphics environment that enables users to manipulate the rendering state of individual views between wire frame, hidden line, and shaded to accommodate specific tasks. It includes revamped dynamics capabilities that are now always active within a CADDS 5 session and the new Middle Mouse button and keyboard combinations improve ease of use of its dynamics capabilities.

View clipping and view states enhance communication by allowing viewing and manipulation of reduced datasets and improves visibility of complex graphics scenarios and speed interaction; plus, semi-automatic annotation from templates enables users to quickly annotate a drawing from a user-defined template controlling which objects to label and the label content. Annotations can also be automatically updated if the object’s attributes or template format changes.

CADDS 5 15.0 is available now in English. French, Japanese, and simplified Chinese versions are expected to be available in Q2 2008.

For more information, please visit PTC‘s CADDS 5 product page.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.