In 1985 we thrown out of the window our boards and since that year all our drawings are made using computers graphic softwares.
The ship is a complex container and we concentrate at first to find a good surface modeling software in order to have a good3D definition of hull and superstructure.
We found (and we still use it!) a French software designed to help the Shipyards to start with CAD CAM (with the support of the French Ministry of Industry).
The name of that software is CIRCE3D and is designed by SISTRE.
R.E.D.S. also became SISTRE's Agent and sold CIRCE3D to several Shipyards like Rodriquez Shipyards, C.A.B.I. Cattaneo, Crestitalia and others.
A very good reference is that all the Shipyards that bought CIRCE3Dat that time (1986-1988) are still using the software (of course the code has been upgraded and improved in these years).
CIRCE3D is a single surface modeler and SISTRE designed a new product called MAAT (Modeling Application of Advanced Topology) for the in the HP environment RISC workstations.
This new software allows the creation of several surfaces and planes in a same space and intersect them in order to obtain complex sections, the shape for the ship structural elements, the interior arrangements, see Samples
All our drawing, even the simple 2D ones, are always coming from the definition of a 3D model.
The experience acquired using the computer aided design tools placed the R.E.D.S. Tecnical Office a step over the conventional design companies.
But we never stop in upgrading our systems in order to maintain this gap and supply better services to our Clients. see Services
Seeing the power of the new PC's and the new interfaces growing up in the last years, SISTRE finally decided to develop a new MAAT 2000 software running on the Windows platform.
The program is written using C++ and, compared with MAAT, has new very important base points.
A parents-sons structure has been used for data and all the curves on the surface points to her parents.
The approach for the surface definition is more general than it's progenitors CIRCE3D and MAAT allowing to define all kind of complex objects, not only related with the marine field.
The user interface is the Windows classical one with icons showing the functions, see SISTRE MAAT 2000