Grasshopper Components for Hydrostatics in Orca3D
Orca3D now includes Grasshopper components for automating Orca3D’s hydrostatics and stability calculations! This update, Version 2.0.22, is free to our Version 2 users and is available for download today. Details of other improvements in this release can be found here.
If you aren’t familiar with Grasshopper, it is a graphical scripting editor that is included with Rhino, and it does not require any knowledge of programming or scripting.
“I worked with the Orca3D Grasshopper components on a tugboat stability project. It has been amazing…I was very impressed with the calculations and the speed – everything computes so quickly! I used the components to iterate through different hull modifications while trying to achieve certain characteristics, which were output almost instantaneously.” John Kreuter, West Sound Maritime
These new Grasshopper components are a Work-in-Progress (WIP), and their use is documented in the Orca3D Help file. We’d love to hear about your experience with them and how you have used them to streamline your work! |
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Orca3D Version 2 is compatible with Rhino 6 and Rhino 7. If you are still using Orca3D Version 1, contact us at ndar@ndar.com to upgrade to Version 2 today! |