
It remains widely accessible to new users, applicable to the specific tasks undertaken and capable of delivering compliant, safe and productive design to confidently meet the challenges of the future. As a Naval Architect, quite often I used to come across some Ship Design software like, DelftShip, FORAN, NAPA, MaxSurf. NAPA Steel has revolutionised our software and delivered an agile, fast-to-learn and user friendly design tool that meets the needs of new ‘digital natives’ entering the industry.

Moreover, NAPA Steel will be a paradigm shift in increasing competitive advantage and productivity and creating cost savings for all our customers. “Fun to use, NAPA Steel provides a new level of usability and speed to this vast group of NAPA users. I would like to personally thank HHI for this opportunity. The world’s best and most demanding ship engineers at HHI have tested NAPA Steel extensively and taken NAPA Steel to production use. “The adoption of NAPA Steel by HHI, the world’s largest shipbuilder, demonstrates that our work to bring 3D modelling to ship structural design has been a success. Juha Heikinheimo, President, NAPA Group commented: We have been testing this new software over a long period of time and are sure that the roll-out of NAPA Steel will allow our engineers to become more productive, greatly enhancing the quality of ship structural design.” Napa Steel and Napa Designer have been updated with improved interfaces with class society software.

“NAPA Steel is one of the forerunners in ship structural design technology.
