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by | Oct 13, 2019

Keeping ahead of the latest advances in marine propulsion can be difficult; however, if you are a designer or propulsion equipment supplier, it is vital to your business. Learning how to best use technical software is necessary to be efficient at delivering accurate results for your clients. Many companies achieve this and keep up to date with contemporary practices through training from HydroComp.

Online Training:

HydroComp regularly offers remote training, conferences, and workshops for our users! Online training is the ideal solution for focused applications and specific topics. Session topics are prescheduled by HydroComp; however, custom sessions can be requested and tailored by HydroComp to the needs of a specific audience. The training can be multicast to as many at 25 attendees located anywhere in the world.

Please contact HydroComp to request a Customized Online Training session.

NavCad Online Video Workbook Training Course:

This course focuses on the “best practices” for experienced, new, and potential users of NavCad. Quickly raise the level of your professional skills, master the newest features and modules in NavCad, and learn to exploit the full capability and strength of NavCad. Quickly analyze vessel speed and power performance. NavCad provides maritime designers with the necessary tools for the optimized selection of suitable propulsion system components. Additionally, the course will introduce the new Premium edition of NavCad which features wave drag prediction, operating modes analysis and a scripting API.

Following the completion of each of the three video workbook sessions, users will have an hour-long meeting (three meetings total) with a HydroComp expert to review the material and answer any questions.

View the video workbooks: myhydrocourses.com/navcad-product-training 

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NavCad Premium Training Course:

The course will focus on these Premium features including wave drag prediction, operating modes analysis and a scripting API. Learn to exploit the full capability and strength of NavCad Premium – topics include modelling operational modes, performing comprehensive duty-cycle analyzes, calculating wave drag using longitudinal distributions of immersed volume, and running NavCad from third-party software as a calculation engine (i.e., coupled solver).

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“Impressed with the commitment to provide the best possible tool.”

PropCad Online Video Workbook Training Course:

This course is suitable for both new and existing users of PropCad, but is particularly valuable to professionals new to the propeller manufacturing industry. The topics for this course include a review of propeller geometry terminology, series geometries, creating new designs and design variants, application-specific design considerations, and exporting 2D drawings and 3D CAD/CAM files. The course will discuss propeller strength calculations, techniques to modify existing designs, custom distributions, scaling and smoothing, and creating template files. Additionally, the course will also review the process of recreating an existing propeller design in PropCad – from 2D drawings or from 3D surface measurements.

Following the completion of each of the three video workbook sessions, users will have an hour-long meeting (three meetings total) with a HydroComp expert to review the material and answer any questions.

View the video workbooks: myhydrocourses.com/propcad-product-training 

Click here request additional information.

“Good mix of current theory; practical examples.”

PropExpert Online Video Workbook Training Course:

The focus of the course will be to introduce and review the best operating procedures for experienced, new, and potential users of PropExpert. This course is the quickest way to get up-to-speed with PropExpert! The course will be to introduce and review the best operating procedures for the sizing and analysis of propellers. Calculate optimum diameter, pitch, reduction gear ratio, and blade area for open or ducted propeller systems. It is ideal for experienced, new, and potential users of PropExpert.

Following the completion of all three video workbook sessions, users will have an hour-long session with a HydroComp expert to review the material and answer any questions.

View the video workbooks: myhydrocourses.com/propexpert-product-training

Click here request additional information.

“I definitely feel Don [MacPherson] is about as good as it gets in this field and I learned a lot. I will be sending some of my people to future seminars.”

Custom Online Training:

HydroComp can offer a customized training course to quickly elevate the professional skills of your staff. Special one and two-day training seminars have been provided to a variety of companies including propeller manufacturers/dealers, engine manufacturers/dealers, naval architects, shipyards, and Navies/Coast Guards.

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