船舶基本设计提供 3D 模型船舶的预先定义，用于获得船级社审批所需的报告和图纸。它还支持以 3D 形式迅速定义结构和舾装元素。此功能可以通过极为高效的方式涵盖全局几何体、属性和船材尺度。
船级图纸通过 3D 模型自动生成，这可能是使用 FORAN 自动理想化工具的 FEM 分析，实现与任何 FEM 套件的双向沟通。
FORAN 船舶基本设计的优势：
船舶基本设计提供 3D 模型船舶的预先定义，用于获得船级社审批所需的报告和图纸。它还支持以 3D 形式迅速定义结构和舾装元素。此功能可以通过极为高效的方式涵盖全局几何体、属性和船材尺度。
船级图纸通过 3D 模型自动生成，这可能是使用 FORAN 自动理想化工具的 FEM 分析，实现与任何 FEM 套件的双向沟通。
FORAN 船舶基本设计的优势：
Tools to create structure class drawings from the 3D model, in the traditional 2D structure style, and to update drawings after changes in the model. It is DXF compatible. Some remarkable features are the smart labeling, the possibility of automatically inserting symbols each time a drawing is generated, and propagating changes in the 3D model to each drawing upon user request.
The model is created in true shape. Plate and profile elements are rendered as BREP solids, including thickness, openings, end cuts, and other details. For global FEM analysis, a tool simplifies the structure model, removing thickness and non-relevant details, and then applies the necessary stretch or shrink to the elements to ensure that contacts and connections are kept.
Shell and deck plates can be modeled as areas of common grade and scantling, limited by any 3D curve on the surface (butts, seams, knuckles, etc.). These areas can be divided and detailed if the design progresses. Insert sets of longitudinal stiffeners from end-to-end on each surface, and chop them at the points of change of scantling. As in the case of plates, stiffeners can be later detailed and split at block or part boundaries.
FORAN provides tools for defining planar, multi-planar, or corrugated structures. In many cases, bulkheads, floors, web frames and beams, stringers, and other structural elements can be easily defined just with one click on a sequence of intersection lines, automatically provided on each working section. The smart or topological copy is of special interest at the basic design stage.
Outfitting and machinery layouts can be defined, allowing ship configuration in the early stages of the project. This application follows the model-to-drawing approach, but also provides a 2D drafting environment that is DXF compatible and includes functions for placing and modifying equipment on the ship views. The 3D model is automatically updated when the 2D is modified.
FORAN provides a smart 2D generator for piping, instrumentation, and electrical schematics. Equipment, pipes, and other elements on the diagram are transparently assigned with technological data and attributes from the machinery and outfitting libraries in the database.
Surface model tools provide a powerful set of tools for defining hull forms or can import the hulls from any third-party software.
FORAN provides accurate weight calculation of all parts included in the 3D model. The parts are considered with true shapes, including thickness, actual scantlings, openings, lengths and diameters, with the maturity level present in the model. The 3D model can produce material estimates in terms of tons of steel, areas of plate for each thickness and grade, total length for each profile section, material and scantling, number and type of fittings, pipes, and equipment.
