SCAFO, A CAD AND CAM INTEGRATED SYSTEM FROM BASIC DESIGN TO ASSEMBLY

The SCAFO system has been developed and implemented at ITALCANTIERI since 1972. In 1976 it was also implemented at CNR. Today 90 percent of the Italian Shipbuilding industry uses this system. It is a computer aid instrument dealing with shipbuilding activities in hull structure drawing, generation, work preparation and fabrication. It has replaced mold loft and production office activities, by integrating them with those of the drawing office. As a CAM system it is provided to define any type of inner structural surface with exact description of plates and profiles scantling. As a CAM system it is provided to generate automatically the production information from work preparation to assembly. In 1978 it was interfaced with the AUTOKON system. The paper includes: history and evolution of the system; basic concepts with reference to the resolution alteration problems; input functions; structures definition and interrelation between them; output functions of various application programs.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Preprint from ICCAS 79. June 1979. (The complete set of preprints for ICCAS 79 can be ordered from Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, as "Computer Applications in the Automation of Shipyard Operation and Ship Design III." Price: $73.25.)
• Corporate Authors:

  IIT Research Institute

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  American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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• Authors:
  • DiLuca, R
  • Bais, E
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 195-204
• Serial:
  • Publication of: IIT Research Institute
  • Publisher: IIT Research Institute

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automation; Computer aided design; Computer graphics; Design; Fairing lines; Hulls; Naval architecture; Numerical control; Shipbuilding; Shipyards; Vehicle design
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ship design
• Old TRIS Terms: Hull assembly; Hull geometry; Lines fairing; Shipyard automation
• Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311591
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC-11
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 9 1980 12:00AM