Evaluation downloads and demos
We believe in trying before buying and like to give our
future customers the opportunity to see for themselves what a program can
do before purchasing it.
Marine programs'
evaluation
MultiSurf 8.0 now
available!
If you would like to sample the latest version of MultiSurf free for 20 days,
please fill out this form, and we'll send you a
password to download your copy.
MultiSurf customers: log
in here to the customer support site.
Download
MultiSurf documentation.
Industrial design
programs' evaluation
SurfaceWorks 8.0 now
available!
Please
answer the questions in this form, and we
will contact you with the instructions for downloading a
20-day evaluation copy of either SurfaceWorks or SurfaceWorks Solo.
Please note: AeroHydro does
not support integration with SolidWorks 64 at this time.
SurfaceWorks customers: log
in here to the customer support site.
Documents to download
Demos
These demos will show you our programs at
work:
MultiSurf downloads (patch files and
other goodies)
WAMIT panelization examples
Download a set of example files of ships and
offshore structures panelized for hydrodynamic analysis with WAMIT, and accompanying
documentation. (WAMIT™ is a wave-body analysis code from MIT's Computational
Hydrodynamics Facility.)
Components example
Here is a model John Letcher made to demonstrate the capability of MultiSurf to model
complex internal framing members for a metal hull. You can see a picture in
AeroHydro Gallery, and download here
a zip file containing the model and its three component files, and a write-up that
explains how it works.
Relational solids
MultiSurf 6.6 has the capability to represent relational solids. Applications for
this include sailboat ballast, other castings, tank volumes and
centroids, and 3D volume
meshes for computational fluid dynamics and finite element grids. Here is
a self-extracting zip file containing a description of the
solids functionality (an MS Word .doc) together with two .ms2 sample files.
RuledSolid and BLoftSolid are on the menu (Create/Solid...) in MultiSurf 4.0,
and fully integrated into Mass Properties, Weight Schedule, viewing and rendering, etc.
Animation with MultiSurf
MultiSurf has a cool Animate feature available through the Command window.
Download here a zip file (28KB) containing a Word document
which describes the feature in detail together with several sample files.
Solving geometry problems in MultiSurf
In the Solve command, MultiSurf has a powerful general capability to solve a wide
variety of geometry problems involving varying numbers of equality constraints and/or
optimizations; for example:
- construct a line that passes through a given point and is tangent to a given circle;
- construct a line that is simultaneously tangent to two circles;
- construct an arc that is simultaneously tangent to two curves;
- find the maximum-beam point on a boat hull;
- find the curve on a hull where the normal vector has no x-component (this is the place
to cut and insert a parallel midbody that will have C1 continuity.)
Download a self-extracting zip file Solve.exe that documents
this capability and gives several examples of its use.
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