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NAPA and Elomatic: unpacking the secret behind two decades of successful collaboration

Behind every great vessel is a great team – but what makes a great team even better?  Building the blueprint for successful collaboration, data-driven solutions are enabling faster design, better communication and more innovation. When that basis is established, designing safer, greener and more efficient ships becomes significantly easier.   Transforming the industry one project at […]

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NAPA 1-day Workshop in Paris 2023

Join us for an exciting one-day workshop in the beautiful city of Paris! NAPA is excited to provide you with an opportunity to learn and share knowledge, and discuss with other shipbuilding industry professionals while also getting the chance to meet you in person. In addition to all the interesting presentations at this event, we […]

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Intelligent Ship Design Seminar Powered by NAPA and CADMATIC

Join us for a special joint seminar powered by NAPA and CADMATIC in Vancouver! We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming seminar on Intelligent Ship Design, which covers the entire ship project life cycle from naval architecture to basic and detail design through to ship production and delivery. The seminar will feature expert speakers who […]

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NAPA User Meeting 2023

Re-inventing Ship Design Together! We are excited to announce that the NAPA User Meeting 2023 will be taking place this Spring in Helsinki. This annual event brings together the NAPA family to share knowledge, network, and connect in person. Due to the pandemic situation, we had to skip a few years, but we are thrilled […]

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NAPA joins the International Windship Association

NAPA is expanding its efforts to support the decarbonization of shipping by becoming an associate member of the International Windship Association (IWSA). IWSA’s Mission is to promote the use of wind propulsion in commercial shipping to reduce fuel consumption and decrease climate change related emissions. As an associate member, NAPA will join a dedicated group […]

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Damen, NAPA and Bureau Veritas successfully deploy 3D Classification approvals for first ship design

Damen Engineering will implement 3D Classification for further designs after first end-to-end trial with a dredger vessel demonstrates efficiency gains and time savings. Helsinki (Finland), 12 January 2022: Damen Engineering has announced the completion of their first vessel design to be entirely created, reviewed and class-approved using 3D models in collaboration with leading classification society Bureau […]

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NAPA Release 2022.2

The second NAPA Release of 2022 is now live! All the changes in the software can be found in the NAPA Release Notes 2022.2 document, which is available in NAPAnet, with the installation packages. In NAPA Release 2022.2, the main focus has been on the geometry and structure modeling and more efficient application functionality. Some […]

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Usuki Shipyard expands its ship design tools with NAPA 3D Models

Over the last eight years, Usuki Shipyard in Japan has been expanding its use of NAPA’s ship design tools. The team from the Basic Design Section of the Ship Design Department is now looking to expand its use of NAPA 3D Models to include the design of onboard equipment. Usuki Shipyard has around 150 employees […]

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NAPA Viewer 2022.1

A new version of NAPA Viewer is out now! NAPA Viewer 2022.1 enables more efficient design review by offering a new walk-through view mode, visualization of 3D CAD components and annotation of 2D sections to create instant 2D drawing views. NAPA Viewer A new web-based solution, NAPA Viewer, enables easy access to up-to-date NAPA 3D […]

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NAPA Stand Talk at SMM 2022: Revolution of 3D based ship design

At SMM 2022 in Hamburg, we had several interesting stand talks with our customers. On Tuesday, NAPA’s Tommi Kurki and Mikko Forss discussed with Sebastiano Battagli (Technical Manager) and Caterina Benedetti (Basic Design Team Leader) from Meccano Engineering about the benefits of NAPA in the concept design phase. For instance, by using NAPA, Meccano Engineering […]

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