Hull Design Assist Tool (HuDAT)

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Introduction

The Hull Design Assist Tool (HuDAT) is a Creo plugin that enables three capabilities for designing and building a armored vehicle’s hull:

  1. Generate conceptual plates from a soapbar (a simple representation of the outline of the hull)
  2. Generate detailed plates that include ballistic weld edge preparation for steel and aluminum armors
  3. Weld internal structure to the plates to provide structural reinforcement

Requirements

  1. Creo C development toolkit
  2. Boost 1_49
  3. Visual Studio 2010 or later

Installation

  1. Open the Visual Studio solution (.sln) file in the src/DAT directory
  2. Point Visual Studio to the Boost include files
  3. Compile the project to generate the DLLs
  4. Open the Visual Studio solution (.sln) file in the src/DATInstaller directory
  5. Compile the project to generate the installer
  6. Run the generated installer to install the HuDAT plugin