Royal Huisman Shipyard.

A central 3D concept-design environment for a world-class superyacht yard — so clashes are found on screen, not in production.

Client: Royal Huisman Shipyard
Vessel / type: Superyachts
Disciplines: Modelling, Scripting, Training
Role: Central 3D environment, modelling, training, scripting

Concept-design work session at Royal Huisman: all disciplines in one integrated 3D model — Fig. 01 — Royal Huisman ShipyardSuperyachts

01 — Challenge

Overview is hard in 2D

Royal Huisman builds custom superyachts of world top standard. Size and complexity demand close cooperation between architects, designers and the yard’s departments — yet each department receives almost all of its information as 2D drawings.

The ever-growing stack of drawings is impossible to overview and leads to clashes. The yard was looking for a central 3D environment to find those problems at an early stage.

02 — Approach

One concept model, every department

At a Dutch Rhino User Meeting, CAD manager Lambertus Oosterveen asked Tobias to visit the yard and talk about what Rhino could offer. Two years later every project had a working concept-design group: one modeller per department — structure, systems, interior and deck equipment — filling one central 3D model.

The group meets regularly. Problem areas are discussed in the model and, most of the time, solved on the spot.

Figures

The stack of 2D drawings for the structure department alone — Fig. 02The 2D drawings for the structure department alone

A typical clash found in the 3D model before production — Fig. 03A typical clash — easy to fix in the model

Rhinoceros training at Royal Huisman Shipyard — Fig. 04Rhino training at the yard

03 — The work

Proving it, then teaching it

Integrating Rhino into a complex CAD environment with dozens of workstations was a challenge in itself. With no modellers yet, Tobias first had to prove that Rhino could handle the amount of data — by drawing everything himself.

The first benefits showed quickly. Next came training: for the modellers, and for the people who need to view the model and extract data from it.

In his words

“First I had to prove that Rhino is capable of handling this massive amount of data — and since there were no modellers, I had to draw everything myself.”
— Tobias Nagel

04 — Outcome

Clashes solved on screen

A working concept-design group for every project, with the central model as the place where disciplines meet. Next steps were moving from concept model to production model — extracting as much data as possible from the detailed 3D model — and scripts for consistent settings across the yard and further automation of the modelling.

Credits

Teamwork with Lambertus Oosterveen, CAD manager at Royal Huisman — “without his commitment and motivation it would never have been possible.”

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