Due to the fast increase of offshore project, the need for design model exchange is growing. Owners frequently designate preferred CAD system to be used during the design and production phase in the contract. Shipyards have to use the designated CAD s...
Due to the fast increase of offshore project, the need for design model exchange is growing. Owners frequently designate preferred CAD system to be used during the design and production phase in the contract. Shipyards have to use the designated CAD system even though they are not familiar with. Furthermore, the introduction of new CAD system and the design data migration from the legacy CAD system increase the needs of model data exchange. In order to correctly exchange model data, it is essential to build a consistent library before exchanging design models, and this can be achieved by establishing the neutral library which refers to the international standard. In this paper, we propose a method to translate piping library data from AVEVA Marine to the library of Intergraph SM3D through a neutral library which refers to the international standard based on material classification code. Library translation with reference to the international standard can be the basis of independent library which is independent from commercial CAD systems.