{"id":780,"date":"2011-01-05T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/How-to-Design-a-High-Speed-Ferry-that-Carries-its-Own-Weight-in\/ba-p\/334562"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:02:19","slug":"how-to-design-a-high-speed-ferry-that-carries-its-own-weight-in-payload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/how-to-design-a-high-speed-ferry-that-carries-its-own-weight-in-payload\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Design a High-Speed Ferry that Carries its Own Weight in Payload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>How our customers use our software products and the designs they produce never ceases to fascinate me. Many moons ago I spent several months working in Le Havre, France, and had occasion to travel on the cross channel ferries a few times. I have to say though, in those days the ferry didn\u2019t look anything like this:<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-4162 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/how-to-design-a-high-speed-ferry-that-carries-its-own-weight-in-payload\/revolutiondesign04\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4162\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/01\/RevolutionDesign04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><EM>Courtesy of LD Lines<\/EM><BR \/><BR \/><!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>This is the Norman Arrow, designed by Tasmania based <A href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutiondesign.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Revolution Design<\/A>. She is the largest diesel-powered catamaran in the world, capable of operating at speeds of over 40 knots and&nbsp;has capacity for 1200 passengers and over 400 cars (<A href=\"http:\/\/www.incat.com.au\/domino\/incat\/incatweb.nsf\/0\/1B945C486132F2F9CA2575590000A552\/$File\/Yard%20066-Onepage.pdf?OpenElement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">full specifications<\/A>). Revolution Design specializes in lightweight marine vehicles, and is well known for designing high-speed catamarans and the unique wave-piercer hull.<BR \/><BR \/>To become more competitive in the high-speed marine market and to facilitate the regulatory compliance procedure, Revolution Design wanted to make a substantial improvement in its design, analysis and optimization processes. This was successfully achieved by working with Sydney based Siemens PLM Software partner <A href=\"http:\/\/www.endurasim.com.au\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Endurasim<\/A>, and transitioning to use <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/velocity\/femap\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap with NX Nastran<\/A> simulation software.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-4163 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/how-to-design-a-high-speed-ferry-that-carries-its-own-weight-in-payload\/revolutiondesign02\/\"><IMG class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4163\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2011\/01\/RevolutionDesign02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/A><BR \/><BR \/><EM>Hull analysis using Femap with NX Nastran<\/EM><BR \/><BR \/>To find out more read the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?ComponentTemplate=1481&amp;Component=119220\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Revolution Design case study<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>Alastair<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How our customers use our software products and the designs they produce never ceases to fascinate me. Many moons ago I spent several months working in Le Havre, France, and had occasion to travel on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}