CAFE is innovative software for rapid generation of ship concepts. The software relies on an easy-to-design logic which enables an user-friendly design environment. The enhanced and simplified man-model interaction utilizes arbitrary inclined guiding planes that enable reshaping of modeled entities.

Another important invention is the magnetic surface concept that enables reshaping of the surface to fit the shape of another neighbouring surface. Internal structure along with the imported equipment can be visualized by walk-through visualization capability. 

Designers can collaborate in real time by working on the same model and also communicate by using the built in chat module. CAFE basic edition automatically generates classification drawings that include equipment arrangement.

CAFE is developed jointly by BVB ltd, an engineering software company and as2con.

Take a look at pricing and licensing options for CAFE professional version.

If you are interested in CAFE, you can download a free demo from www.bvbcafe.com.

You can view CAFE capabilities in this video.

For more information about CAFE please visit www.bvbcafe.com.

For ship equipment producers: Use the advantage of 3D visualisation and mass calculation of your equipment in CAFE

We are happy to inform all ship equipment producers of a possibility to import data of different equipment and visualise the equipment in ship-design software CAFE (www.bvbcafe.com).

We have learnt from our customers that they find CAFE’s possibility to visualise a real piece of equipment (with real data) extremely useful. Such an option helps customers to promptly get insights into the suitability of equipment dimensions with the particular ship space, as well as to simply and immediately calculate ship total mass. We believe that by enabling this, we provide a prime service to CAFE users, while giving the producers a competitive advantage.

If you would be interested in our proposal to import your equipment’s data, we would need from you the following:

• equipment date in an excel file
• 3d models of the equipment in the form of Virtual Reality Modelling Language File (wrl)

If interested to provide CAFE users with your equipment’s data and models, contact us on cafe(at)as2con.com.

References

• EU FP7 projects — ULYSSES and SAFEWIN
• Intergraph Italia LLC, Italy
• NTNU, Norway
• University of Rijeka, Croatia
• Centre of Maritime Technologies, Germany
• Aalto University, Finland
• Naval Architecture Progress, Greece
• De Naval ltd, Croatia
• RI NAVAL ltd, Croatia

List of publications

Conference articles:

• Ehlers, S., Polic, D., Klanac, A., Schröder, M. (2011) An investigation of a Suezmax tanker grounding accident, 3rd International Conference on Marine Structure - MARSTRUCT, Hamburg, Germany
• Bralic, S., Frank, D., Klanac, A., Cace, B. (20111) CAFE: An Innovative Multi-User System for Rapid Generation of Ship Concepts, COMPIT  Conference, Berlin, German