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Mr. Xavier Arosemena

Weights in hydrostatic calculations

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Hello everybody,

 

About the hydrostatics calculation:

 

Is there a way to define weights of the ship? I mean the material of the hull, its thickness, the position and weight values of engines, etc...

 

What's the correct way to approach this?

 

Cheers,

 

Xavier

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Hi Xavier,

 

unfortunately, CAESES doesn't offer such functionality. If you rely on CAESES you would need to create a feature code that does the calculations for you.

 

If, however, you have a license for Bentley's Maxsurf Stability (former Hydromax) you could use an already existing feature code that connects to Maxsurf automatically. This particular feature is called "Equilibrium" and can be found in our online store under Hull Design > Connections > Hydromax > HydroMaxEqulibrium.

 

Please note that this feature needs a change in line 22 from "if (NOT(Hydromax.setComObject("Hydromax.Application")))" to "if (NOT(MaxSurf_Stability.setComObject("BentleyStability.Application")))" in order to be able to launch Maxsurf Stabilty.

 

Let me know what you think.

 

Cheers

 

Matthias

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Hi Xavier,

 

I agree that this is an important step for hydrostatic calculations. Usually, our customers integrate complex hydrostatics by simply connect to specialised software such as Maxsurf or Napa. If you have such software available and you run into trouble with the connection, let me know.

 

Best Regards

 

Matthias

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Hi Matthias,

 

We have Maxsurf License and I already changed the code in the feature definitions as you said about but the Maxsurf Stability didn't launch. Could you please help me?How can I fix the code to match with my current Maxsurf version. My current maxsurf version is C:\Program Files\Bentley\Offshore\MAXSURF CONNECT Edition V21.11.Thank you 

 

Best regards,

 

MayThu

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Hello

I wanna calculate hydrostatic parameters for a trimaran ship. my problem is the software calculate all things for main hull and doesn't consider sidehulls. software get to know all bodies in CAD tree. I'm not professional but i start with tutorials and follow all instructions. Do i consider special case for trimaran ships? is there any difference for this type of ship hulls?

thank you

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