VICTORIA, Canada, Sep 4, 2014 – SSI released PublisherLT eliminates much of the error prone, repetitive, time consuming, and manual process that keeps highly skilled individuals away from doing their true jobs.

Highly skilled naval architects, marine engineers and draftsmen should be focused on tasks where they can add maximum value consistent with their training and expertise: designing, engineering and drafting. Spending large amounts of time finding, formatting and exporting information for use in engineering or for other departments is not an efficient use of valuable human resources. To solve this problem, SSI (makers of ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software) has introduced PublisherLT, the first application in its new line of EnterprisePlatform software products.

Introducing PublisherLT lets users gather, convert and manipulate information directly from the product data model (for ShipConstructor clients this is the ShipConstructor Marine Information Model or MIM) and save it to another location. And it does this in a centralized fashion (from one user interface) that is independent of the CAD/CAM application – ShipConstructor.

Increased Efficiency

It increases efficiency in two key ways:

• First of all, it quickly and easily finds information. This is important because normally, it can take quite valuable time for a user to locate the required information in the product model. The ShipConstructor Marine Information Model is no exception. Finding and opening a set of drawings, and then exporting the required data is error prone and time consuming. PublisherLT allows a user to load information, drawings, assemblies, parts, spools and more by specified criteria. This eliminates the time required to navigate the MIM to find each and every item.

• Secondly, it automates repetitive work. As with any data rich shipbuilding CAD program, there are many repetitive tasks involved with gathering information in ShipConstructor and AutoCAD such as opening a drawing and exporting an AutoCAD table, or exporting to plain DWG, or plotting to PNG, or PDF (and many, many, more). In these cases, the user would normally open the drawing and run the appropriate command with the correct options and then continue for all of the other drawings that require processing. PublisherLT locates the required information or drawing, accesses it, and runs the required commands with specified options, and then carries on to the next task with no input from the user. This saves the user significant time and also eliminates errors that normally result from repetitive tasks. It is easy to configure PublisherLT and from then on, running it is as simple as a press of a button.

About SSI

SSI provides Autodesk based solutions to the shipbuilding and offshore industry. SSI develops ShipConstructor, an AutoCAD based CAD/CAM software suite that leverages the world’s most popular CAD platform. SSI applies information technology expertise to address industry specific challenges including sharing engineering data with other business processes and applications such as MRP, ERP and PLM tools. Shipbuilders, naval architects and marine engineers trust SSI on projects such as yachts, oil rigs, tankers, ferries, warships and workboats. For more information, see their corporate website www.ssi-corporate.com, or visit their staff, CEO and CTO blogs Lighthouse, Crow’s Nest and Waveform.