Phase Vision Tools Aid Speedboat Design

Ribeye, a rigid inflatable boat manufacturer, has selected Phase Vision as metrology supplier for its latest aluminium hull craft, bringing a new wave of precision engineering to boat manufacturing. According to Ribeye, the lightweight and rigidly constructed aluminium hulls on its latest generation RIBs enable excellent performance in terms of both top speed and durability. To offer this performance at a competitive price point, the company has engaged manufacturing partners in Asia, where the hull skins are now produced before being finally assembled and quality inspected in the UK.

The design process for Ribeye's next generation involved a combination of both CAD and manually crafted scale mock-ups. A single Phase Vision Quartz 800 scanner was used to capture and reverse engineer the mock ups, which were suspended from a gantry to allow 360-degree access. Several scans were required to capture each hull. Phase Vision's proprietary Gemalign software then automatically stitched the scans together ready for export into Polyworks for back-end processing.

Cross-section slices of the hull were created that Ribeye could then transfer electronically to its Asian manufacturing partner, to define the tooling for the metal-forming process. Ribeye reported that the reverse engineering process had been a bottleneck in the past, in terms of both the time it takes to measure a hull and the limited resolution of data supplied back. The manufacturer claimed Phase Vision solved both these issues, allowing its designs to be transferred to manufacture ahead of schedule for next season's product launch.

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