•  New graphical user interface, including pull-down menus and floating toolbars
• User-defined pull-down menus
• Dynamic Surface/Surface intersections and trimming
• Real-time porcupines for sections based on true surface curvature
• Real-time model display spinning, including in shaded rendering and surface curvature analysis modes
• Hull Libraries: containerships, ferries, fishing vessels, naval ships, tankers, tug boats, workboats, yachts, etc.
• Planing Hull and Containership Wizard
• Real-time mouse-driven incremental vertex displacement
• Interactive hierarchical model management
• Pop-up Entity Properties
• New construction geometry functions
• Direct curvature control of surface edges
• Interactive editing of constraints settings
• New object-oriented editing tools
• Real-time hydrostatics
• Support for Open GL drivers, double buffering and backing store
• User-defined surface rendering colours and display settings (highlight colour, transparency and gloss)
• User-defined DXF read/write settings
• Interactive snaps: to net, to mesh, to sections, to construction geometry and to reference data
• Snapping "without end-points", effectively allowing the running of a control point along any line
• Multiple view-ports with real-time global model updating
• Radial scaling
• Control point linking and freezing
• Surface fitting to reference data
• Surface splitting
• Net doubling (rows and/or columns) with constant net degree
• Net corner curvature continuity controls
• Built-in macro language
• Support for the PERL languages
• 12 data export formats (including VRML), plus section and mesh pre/post-processing for CFD and VPP programs
• Internet Q&A forum

• Hull, appendage, and superstructure design with any order NURBS Surfaces
• Parametric Variation of hulls using overall dimensions, form coefficients, displacement, LCB
• Multiple Surfaces, limited only by computer memory
• Real-time surface and section dragging of all affected curves, in all open viewports
• Built-in complete intact hydrostatics (upright and heeled), with Sectional Area Curve display
• Curvature management (“porcupines” along sections, mesh lines reference lines and curves, color map of maximum, minimum, average, and Gaussian surface curvature)
• Section trimming for intersecting surfaces
• Data output : plotter, printer, DXF, SHCP, SMP, IDF, IGES, Postscript
• Data input : DXF, IGES, IDF, Ascii offsets
• True offset surfaces to account for skin thickness
• User-definable section spacing and individual sections (stations, buttocks, waterlines, cant frames, diagonals, and incline frames)
• User-programmable “Fast” buttons for most-used functions
• Built-in programming, command and macro language
• Multiple Viewports
• Viewing Functions: Standard views (profile, planview, bodyplan), fit, last, store/recall, zoom, pan
• Surface Shading
• Move, Merge, Scale, Rotate individual net points, patches, surfaces or groups of surfaces
• Link any net points to any other for editing (e.g. bond surface edges together)
• Input net point location by mouse or keyboard
• Construction geometry (points lines, planes)
• Imperial, Metric, or User-Defined Units
• Cartesian, cylindrical, absolute, and relative coordinate systems
• Auto-save
• ... etc ...

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