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FastShip is an easy-to-use, yet powerful program for designing hulls, superstructures, appendages, and other marine structures, with the ability to design fair surfaces quickly and accurately. FastShip's flexibility allows any hullform type to be represented, and hull features such as bossings, bulbous bows, twin skegs, chines/knuckles, broken sheerlines, and circular bilge turns are readily incorporated into the model.

FastShip is used in the design of all types of vessels, and can automatically produce new hulls from a set of parameters, such as ship type, overall dimensions, displacement, LCB, and form coefficients from parent hulls included with the system, or customer-created parent hulls. This gives the ability to customize the program to work with your existing library of hull forms. Multiple surfaces can be created in Fastship; intersections between them can be displayed, and the part of a surface on one side of the intersection can be trimmed away. This capability facilitates the creation of appended skegs and thruster tunnels while maintaining the correct wetted surface and displacement for the hydrostatics outputs.

FastShip can export AutoCAD DXF files to create a traditional 3-view lines drawing or to support creation of a general arrangement drawing. It also has the ability to import and export Rhino 3 and 4 files, including the preservation of intersection curves and trimming. Other outputs are IDF offset files that can be used by Visual SMP and GHS, as well as GHS's native "GF" format and IGES 128 for use in solid modeling.