Hydrolink - Industry standard data exchange
- Supports a wide variety of hydrostatics programs
- Preview exported data points on-screen
- Automatically adjusts for different units and coordinate systems
Hydrolink provides data exchange between a range of modelling, performance prediction and hydrostatics programs.
Although the Maxsurf range provides a complete suite of design and analysis tools, there may be occasions when you need to transfer data to and from other systems. Hydrolink provides a range of data translation options which allow you to move models both to and from Maxsurf and other programs.
The Maxsurf modelling module provides import and export of DXF and IGES files. Hydrolink's data exchange options compliment this, with capabilities to read and write files of NURB surfaces and to write offsets files in a format compatible with a number of hydrostatics and VPP programs.
Each file format option has an associated visual dialog of any additional information allowing a complete and consistent file to be prepared, without additional text editing. Validation of key parameters is provided to ensure that input values lie within the required range.
Hydrolink supports the following file formats:
Input: Maxsurf, IGES, DXF, IMSA NURBS, USNA.
Output: (all of the above plus:) SHSP, MHCP, IMS LPP, BMT Microship, ShipFlow, IMSA Hull Parameters.
