Design software Autohydro

calculationfor ships

Autohydro is a complete hydrostatics and stability calculations program for naval architects, ship designers and marine engineers. A true 'floating simulator', Autohydro reports the reaction of the model to various conditions such as a loading configuration, a damage situation, conditions involving outside forces, wind or high speed turning momentum or some combination of these. Autohydro can also be used to obtain hull form characteristics and capacities. Vessel attitude is displayed graphically and in text on the screen. Report information, text and graphs, can be shown on the screen, edited, printed, saved or exported to other Windows applications. Vessel Model - Entire vessel models may be generated in Autohydro or the user can import hull shapes from Autoship® and then add geometry such as tanks, compartments and superstructure. Vessel models are defined by transverse sections, which can be entered by typing in offsets, or by creating a combination of primitive shapes such as cones, boxes or surfaces of rotation. These objects can then be fit or joined to each other to quickly make a complex model. Contents, effectiveness, specific gravity and sounding tubes are assigned to each tank. Margin lines and deck edges can also be defined. Interactive & Run File Modes - The user has 3 methods for performing calculations. The pull down menu system and on-screen selection and setting can be used for most loading condition set-ups and simple calculations. Individual commands can be typed in for more complex calculations or the run file editor can be used to organize many commands for lengthy calculations and to generate in-depth reports.