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State of the Art Graphics Solutions Bring Classic Designs To Life
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From designing historic Tall Ships to Party Boats, Scarano Boatbuilders Rely on the speed of the NVIDIA® Quadro FX 3400 by PNY Technologies
For a quarter of a century, Scarano Boat Builders, Inc has been designing boats ranging from small, high-performance racing sailboats to historic, full-rigged ship replicas, to period-style charter schooners, steel crane barges and party boats. In the passenger sail vessel arena, Scarano continues to set the standard for aesthetic, structural, maintenance, and sailing performance excellence. To consistently achieve high quality standards, Scarano selects the best tools in the industry including the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 graphics board by PNY Technologies.
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Scarano: A Tradition of Proven Performance
Since 1989, Scarano has been using in-house computerized 3D hull definition software utilizing surfacing and hydrostatics, as well as intact and damaged stability features. Scarano performs all of their 3D modeling in SolidWorks® Office Professional 2005. According to Keith Duffy, Scarano Boatbuilding's Lead Designer/CAD Modeler "We use SolidWorks because we believe it is the most powerful and cost effective 3D modeling package available. We selected the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 by PNY Technologies because SolidWorks firmly recommends the NVIDIA graphics boards from PNY and we do not have time to experiment."
"When I began using the NVIDIA® Quadro FX 3400 by PNY Technologies, the activity was so fast it made me jump."
~ Keith Duffy, Scarano Boatbuilding's Lead Designer/CAD Modeler
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Boats by Design
Scarano begins the design process by developing the boat hull shape in Maxsurf Integrated Naval Architecture & Ship Construction Software. Once the designers are satisfied with the vessel's hydrostatics and performance estimate, an.IGES surface file is exported from Maxsurf and opened in SolidWorks.
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Through structural analysis Scarano determines frame locations (to support the hull skin) and performs surface intersections at these vertical planes. This process creates splines that are offset to a dimension that meets the structural needs for frame thickness. The .IGES surface file is then thickened to create the hull plates. The remainder of the boat is designed into and around the hull and frame assembly. This includes: structural stringers, engines, integral tankage, heads, galley, staterooms, hydraulics, plumbing, and electrical wires/cables. All of these parts and assemblies are
assigned material densities to enable the designers to gauge where the ships center of gravity is located - providing Scarano with the flexibility to relocate equipment to maintain the center of gravity. Duffy states "While we are building the model in SolidWorks, we render views with PhotoWorks of the boat and its systems to share in our design office.
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This enables our systems designer, structural engineer, production manager and customer to understand the boat design and to anticipate the final product. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 by PNY graphics board enables us to show our clients realistic, life-like renderings. In turn, our customer can share the renderings with their prospects and customers. As the design is approved, production and tooling files are created, prints are plotted and files are sent to vendors for CNC work. Scarano Boatbuilding's concurrent engineering keeps our design and build time to a minimum - a cost savings we pass on to our customer. "
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The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 by PNY Technologies offers Speed, Speed and More Speed
"We try to work in a timely manner and our present hardware/software set up is the fastest that we are aware of. Before we installed the current PCI express board in our computer system, many of the assembly and part processes took 1-to-2 seconds to perform. An assembly rebuild could take minutes. When we began using the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 by PNY Technologies graphics board, the activity was so fast it made me jump. Processes took less than a second, and assembly rebuilds were less than a minute," said Duffy.
"Our challenge has been that our boat model foundations are splines and offsets of splines. Our initial assembly will have about 500 parts in it (all based on splines and offsets of splines). These are made up of subassemblies and split parts. The final model will have 2500 to 3000 parts. As we proceed through the project design, I determine which parts will not change. We then copy these parts out as Para solids and rebuild our assembly with "dumb" solids. The speed of the NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 by PNY ensures that our focus does not get bogged down in the project waiting for the CAD model. Our customer's greatest benefit from us using the
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 3400 by PNY is the cost savings due to the speed of the solid model assembly rebuilding and parametrically changing throughout the project.", Duffy concluded.
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About Scarano Boatbuilding, Inc
For over 25 years, Scarano Boatbuilding, Inc. has been providing commercial operators and boating enthusiasts with cost-effective design and construction of high-quality, custom boats. Scarano specializes in wood - composite - steel - aluminum construction of sailing yachts and U.S.C.G.-certified excursion vessels, both power and sail. Their facility is located on the west side of the Hudson River south of Albany, New York. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.scaranoboat.com.
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About PNY Technologies, Inc.
Established in 1985, PNY Technologies, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of its Verto®-brand consumer graphics cards and NVIDIA Quadro® by PNY professional workstation graphics boards. The company also offers a full line of high-end memory upgrade modules, flash memory, flash peripherals, USB drives and digital entertainment products. Its memory products currently account for a majority share of all retail sales in the U.S. Headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., PNY maintains facilities in North America (Santa Clara, Calif. and Parsippany, N.J.), Europe (France, United Kingdom, Germany) and Asia (Taiwan). For additional information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.pny.com.
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