DEFCAR Ingenieros (Spain) has finished the software installation at the offices of IZAR Carenas Ingenieria. This included the DFform modules of hull design and faring and DFhydro - naval architecture calculations. DEFCAR also provided a training course using an example of a 182m long tanker, which is being converted in Carenas Cadiz. One of the first applications for this new suite of software will be a French ferry hull modification design that includes addition of sponsons in order to increase the vessel’s stability.

DFform uses surfaces for defining vessel forms and allows the definition of the vessel in a continuous three-dimensional way. In shiprepair, users often have the forms from an existing vessel and want to "input" them into DEFCAR system. DFform adjusts the surfaces to the reference points with a high precision of the identification in the order of 1 mm, depending on the quality of the pre-existing forms.
DEFCAR software was chosen after a comprehensive evaluation of its features based on the positive experience of IZAR Carenas Cartagena, which has been using DFhydro for some time already. IZAR Carenas Ingenieria is a new business unit of IZAR, recently created to support conversions carried out by all four shipyards of IZAR Carenas (Carenas Cadiz, Carenas Cartagena, Carenas Ferrol-Fene and Carenas San Fernando).