Marine & Offshore

3D Solutions for the Marine Design Industry

Marine & Offshore Solutions

Innovate with design tools and additive manufacturing

Technology & Process Solutions

In the Marine & Offshore industry, organizations must develop innovative and sustainable concepts, deliver on-time and on-budget, and comply with stringent safety and environmental regulations.

Our solutions allow Marine designers to:

Design, Optimize, Validate, and Certify Marine Projects

SOLIDWORKS solutions allow you to connect requirements, regulations, project planning, design, and engineering teams throughout the design process with full traceability.
Concurrent Design

To maintain a competitive advantage, shipyard and platform organizations require an integrated environment by streamlining the flow of information. This information flow promotes efficient project management that helps meet the number one priority–ensuring timely and on-budget delivery.

Efficiently Plan For Marine Project Manufacturing

As today’s ships and platforms become larger and more sophisticated, a comprehensive design solution delivers significant advantages with tight integration between design and manufacturing, which reduces the risk of errors and time-consuming, costly rework.

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Additive Manufacturing Solutions

3D printing provides manufacturers with prototyping, advanced tooling and production applications. 3D printing solutions are often the difference between turning down potential business and cost-effectively delivering and serving a niche need.

Our additive solutions help Marine designers to:

Get to market faster

Get to market faster with speedier design cycles. Go from design to prototyping in hours, not days. Blaze through design improvement with rapid prototype revisions
Simplify Workflow

Get better results by removing steps and complexity from your workflow. By producing full-scale prototypes straight from CAD design, your design reviews go smoother with hands-on consumer insight that is more informed.
3D Print Jigs and Fixtures

With 3D printed tooling you can avoid high machining costs for custom tools or parts needed for individual repairs and restorations.

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Technology for Marine & Offshore Design

Drive innovation and speed design with SOLIDWORKS software

To maintain a competitive advantage, shipyard and platform organizations require an integrated environment by streamlining the flow of information. This information flow promotes efficient project management that helps meet the number one priority–ensuring timely and on-budget delivery.

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Software

SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD software delivers powerful design functionality with an intuitive user interface to speed your design process and instantly productive.

SOLIDWORKS Composer

SOLIDWORKS Composer helps organizations leverage 3D CAD data to create dynamic graphical content to communicate even the most complex products

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation gives product engineers access to powerful CFD analysis capabilities that help enable them to speed up product innovation

SOLIDWORKS Inspection

The SOLIDWORKS Inspection course will teach you how to work with inspection documents; the course includes the add-in and standalone versions of the product

SOLIDWORKS MBD

SOLIDWORKS MBD (Model Based Definition) software is a drawingless manufacturing solution for communicating product and manufacturing information (PMI)

SOLIDWORKS Simulation

With SOLIDWORKS Simulation solutions, product engineers can virtually test new ideas, quickly and efficiently evaluate performance, and improve quality

Customer Example

Grantec used SOLIDWORKS Simulation to help design the Canadian Navy Maritime Coastal Defense Vessel

Grantec was the principal structural analyst on the Canadian Navy Maritime Coastal Defense Vessel project, and used SOLIDWORKS Simulation to test the design.

Grantec Engineering Consultants, Inc., provides advanced analysis services to clients that develop complex structures for a wide range of applications.

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Marine & Offshore Process Management

Communicate and collaborate with your team and suppliers

As today’s ships and platforms become larger and more sophisticated, a comprehensive design solution delivers significant advantages with tight integration between design and manufacturing, which reduces the risk of errors and time-consuming, costly rework.

SOLIDWORKS PDM

SOLIDWORKS Product Data Management (PDM) products manage and synchronize your design data across your entire enterprise with a single solution

SOLIDWORKS Manage

Extends SOLIDWORKS PDM with advanced capabilities that allow teams to manage project timelines and resources, complex business processes, and advanced item management.

Aras Innovator

Aras Innovator PLM software allows organizations to efficiently collaborate to optimize resources, minimize costly errors, and reduce time to market.

Additive Manufacturing Marine & Offshore Solutions

Advanced materials and techniques for prototyping

Overview

Designers and engineers can skip expensive, time-intensive machining and gain the agility to make changes any time. 3D Printers let you produce concept models, prototypes, tooling and end-use parts directly from CAD data.

Because prototyping needs change as a products design develops from the concept phase to functional testing, many organizations deploy more than one technology by Stratasys. Marine and Offshore manufacturers need the flexibility to 3D print prototypes and end-use parts in small, medium or large volumes.

3D Printing Technologies

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) and Polyjet are two distinct additive manufacturing methods.

FDM technology is a great solution for low-volume tooling and durable end-use parts. FDM Technology works with production-grade high performance thermoplastics such as Nylon 12, Polycarbonate and Ultem 9085.

PolyJet Technology produces ultra-detailed prototypes, molds and even production parts incorporating smooth rigid, transparent and flexible materials. Multi-material 3D printers produce life like models with a variety of material properties on a single build tray.

Additive Manufacturing Machines & Materials

Stratasys 3D Printing gets industrial equipment created faster

Create large or small production tools and full-scale prototypes with Stratasys 3D Printers. Marine designers can maximize productivity and quickly achieve ROI.

With the Objet1000 Plus, designers and engineers can quickly prototype large 3D CAD designs, no matter how complex. There’s no need to scale the model down, prepare and assemble jigsaw-puzzle pieces, or outsource to an assortment of different machines and technologies.

ST-130 Sacrificial Tooling

ST-130 Sacrificial Tooling material simplifies the production of hollow composite parts. Complex tools can be 3D printed and easily dissolved after curing.

ULTEM 9085

ULTEM 9085 resin material lets manufacturers create functional prototypes and production parts for high-strength, FST-rated and certified applications.

PPSF / PPSU

PPSF / PPSU (polyphenylsulfone) Stratasys 3D printing material has the greatest heat and chemical resistance of all FDM materials

High Temperature (RGD525)

Stratasys High Temperature PolyJet 3D printing material is ideal for thermal testing prototypes that require hot-air or hot-water flow.

Digital ABS Plus

Digital ABS Plus™ is designed to simulate standard ABS plastics for better impact strength with high-temperature resistance, toughness and superior finish.

ABS-M30

ABS-M30 is ideal for conceptual modeling, functional prototyping, manufacturing tools and production parts. ABS-M30 has greater strength than standard ABS.

ABS-ESD7

ABS-ESD7 thermoplastic Stratasys 3D printing material has static dissipative properties for applications where a static charge can damage products, impair their performance or cause an explosion.

Objet1000 Plus

Create large or small production tools and full-scale prototypes with the Objet1000 Plus 3D Printer. Maximize your productivity and quickly achieve ROI.

Objet350/500 Connex3

The Objet350/500 Connex3 are able to combine vivid colour and multiple materials, to simulate the precise look, feel and function of finished products.

FDM TPU 92A

FDM TPU 92A brings the benefits of elastomers to Stratasys FDM 3D printing and offers the capability to quickly produce large and complex elastomer parts.

Stratasys F900

The Stratasys F900 is the ultimate manufacturing-grade production 3D printer with the widest array of engineering-grade materials, maximum throughput, largest build platform, and highest accuracy.

Additive Manufacturing Applications

How do Marine & Offshore engineers use 3D printers?

Production End-use Parts

Stratasys 3D Printers are ideal for low production runs as they build the most durable, stable, repeatable on-demand end-use parts in the industry

Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping with a Stratasys 3D Printer helps companies turn great ideas into successful products faster than ever before by 3D printing your prototypes.

Jigs & Fixtures

3D Print Jigs Fixtures, work-holding devices, and optimize for lighter weight, better ergonomics, easier assembly or greater productivity

Why Stratasys 3D Printing for Marine & Offshore?

Recommended Marine & Offshore Machine

Objet1000 Plus

Large Scale Multi-Material 3D Printer

The Objet1000 Plus is an easy to operate, wide format 3D printer for rapidly creating industrial size models and 1:1 scale prototypes.

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Offset Expensive CNC Production

For low-volume tooling and durable end-use parts, Stratasys patented Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology works with production-grade materials, including high-performance thermoplastics like PC and ULTEM 9085.

Reduce Costs – Print In-house

Outsourcing your prototypes can take days and cost hundreds of dollars. With a Stratasys 3D Printer you can create the same prototype in just hours – for a fraction of the cost.

Test and Identify Design Problems

In some cases using CAD models alone is not as effective at finding design problems as a 3D printed physical part – you can easily identify a component issue that may have been missed in the initial design stage.

Featured Case Study

Oceanic 3D Print Replacement Parts for Harsh Marine Environments

Using SOLIDWORKS together with the Stratasys 3D printer allows Oceanic specialists to quickly turn concepts into physical parts and has given them new opportunities to do work in-house that was once sent to outside suppliers.

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