A drafter that shows its working
Most tools hand you a result. This one hands you the result, the measurements behind it, the list of what it could not finish, and the audit trail a reviewer would ask for anyway.
Four phases, in order,
no skipped gates
The source is read before anything is drawn: particulars, view list, frame system, every deck height, every room area and capacity. The extraction table is shown to you — what is illegible is marked ILLEGIBLE, never guessed.
One view at a time. Hull form from calibrated stations, bulkheads at true frame positions, decks at their stated heights, machinery as real footprints — not four walls and a label.
Frame grid, level callouts, leaders, dimensions, title block. Labels carry areas and capacities only where the source states them. The particulars panel quotes the source.
Six read-only checks against the file: measured versus stated, the dimension audit, completeness by name, critique, a look at the rendered sheet, and the stated-value audit. Nothing ships on a FAIL.
Four disciplines, each master
of what it can represent
The issued GA, its dimensions and its title block
Parametric solids and surfaces, built to tolerance
Hydrostatics, resistance, structure, seakeeping
Review renders and client delivery
A drawing is never asked to carry what it cannot represent. The GA holds the arrangement; the solid model holds the geometry; the analysis holds the numbers. Each one answers only for its own domain, and every claim on the sheet names which one it came from.
From checking drawings
to designing hulls
A system that only measures can check someone else’s drawing. The loop closes when it proposes its own hull and scores it against a real objective — resistance, GM, seakeeping, steel weight — then does it again with a better one.
VALIDATION TARGETS — KCS · KVLCC2 · DTMB 5415
PUBLISHED TOWING-TANK FIGURES, NOT ANECDOTES
The standard of work, written down
These are not aspirations. A run that violates any one of them is treated as a failed job.
Millimetres, always
A 26 m vessel is 26 000 units. Metres are converted on input and never mixed.
No invented values
Deck heights, areas and capacities come from the source. Estimates are marked (EST) and never reach the sheet.
No silent omissions
Every view, room and label in the source is drawn — or named on the omissions list you receive.
“Verified” means measured
A number is verified only when a measurement returned it. A value typed into a label is not verification.
The contract
Client PDF, photo of a marked-up print, existing DXF — or a sentence describing the vessel
Every stated number transcribed: particulars, deck heights A.B.L., frame system, areas, capacities
Frame grid, base line, design waterline — anchored to stated values, not to pixels
Real DXF (AC1024) you can open and edit, plus a plotted PDF of the sheet for review
A1 at stated scale in the Aries frame — border, particulars panel, revision table
Measured-versus-stated table, omissions list, and what was not checked (scantlings, stability, class)
Drafting assistant today.
Design system next.
Compliance matrix — replaces manual RFQ counting
2D to 3D from the drawing — deck solids, equipment placement, mirrored from detected symmetry
A scored set of golden GA jobs, re-run automatically on every change
Hydrostatics validated against real, published hull data
Close the design loop — one hull, one objective, scored end to end
Hull generation, once the loop can score what it makes
Structural analysis — the last big untouched domain
Ready when your next drawing is
Start with a job you already know the answer to.