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SDN is a software tool for the design and analysis of models with the intention of providing the facility to obtain the shapes of a model, as well as to give the best benefits in navigation. To do so, SDN makes use of NURBS surfaces, which posses an excellent ability to represent certain types of shapes. It allows different possibilities to create the forms of the model, among them, to digitize an already existing model for his mod NACA and Karman-Trefftz. It also includes a module for hydrostatic calculations, for stability and for velocity prediction (VPP). All these calculations, graphs and information may be printed so much in PostScript as directly in the printer.

SDN attempts to be a simple tool usable by beginners in naval design, but also sufficiently powerful as to be used by engineers of naval design.

SDN is an experimental platform of investigation developed jointly by the Departments of Communications and Information Engineering (previously known as Dep. of Computer Science and Systems) and Applied Engineering at the University of Murcia, grant PCOM-02/96 TEC from Programa Séneca of Comunidad Autónoma de la Región de Murcia

This is the most stable version of our software, which is appearing for three platforms: Macintosh 68K and PowerPC, and Windows 95. We want to receive your comments about the software by sending us an e-mail. Even being a stable version there are a number of minor bugs and a couple of important ones. We are trying to maintain an official bug-list, to keep track of the bugs and the different versions of the software. Meanwhile, try it and let us know about the problems you notice!.

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Software

Currently the software runs on Windows 95/98/ME and MacOS 8.x/9.x. Due to constraints with the license of some libraries, the software DOES NOT run on Windows NT/2000.

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Documentation

Thanks to some contributions the documentations is availale currently under different formats in both Spanish and English.

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Links

• You can check my Yatch Design page to get some useful links.

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