Basic Design & Detail Design
The Technology Center spares no efforts in developing, importing, application and enhancing CAD design capability, and absorbing advanced two-dimension CAD and three-dimensional design technologies, and has generated quite powerful CAD design capability. The main designing softwares adopted are as follows:
·Finite element structural analysis -- ANSYS 5、6、7.1，MSC.NASTRN.V2001;
·Hull profiles performance calculation -- Maxsurf;
·Propulsion calculation -- Hydro comp;
·Ocean rules system -- Compass-Rules

Successively, the Technology Center has designed more than a hundred of vessels in different types such large-size tourist ships, oceangoing cargo ships, tugs, dredgers, product oil carriers, surveillance ships, LPG carriers and large-size cargo-passenger RO-RO ships etc. Since the beginnin of the 80's of last century, the Technology Center has joint-designed Anchor Handling/Tug/Supply vessels together with oversea design companies. In recent years, it has oriented its development and research on AHTS and PSV. The Technology Center can have joint-design or independent design.

Production Design
3D Design: Through extensive consequent development of 3D design software CADDS5, the Technology Center has completed over 60 research subjects and established its own application softwares for 3D design of Ship Hull, Outfitting, Electrical etc. According to the integration principle of Hull-Outfitting-Painting-In-One and Design-Fabrication-Management-In-One, the Technology Center worked out a 3D production design regulations and established a 3D Production Design System with 3D design as measures and computer network as basis. The Technology Center can carry out concurrent 3D production designs on hull structure, machinery fitting, hull outfitting, pipe fitting, interior decoration, eletrical installation and painting for the whole vessel.

3D Production Design has the following characteristics:
a) the latest ship design technology, if compared with traditional construction design method, it is much more rich in contents, better in visuality and can look through the modules from different view angles;
b) High in design precision, easy in modifications and advance in conflict inspection;
c) Able to carry out concurrent design and realization of direct transformation from 3D modules to 2 dimensional construction drawings;
d) Able to improve design quality and shorten design and construction period.
e) With digital design, production design information is provided via computer network for workshop production and production management. The Center has realized 100% NC cutting for ship hull components and members and direct control of pipe benders by 3D design data for pipe production.

The equipment and softwares adopted for 3D design are as follows: