Shell plates

Shell plates form the hull plating of a ship and can be created and modified in the Shell application.

Generally a shell plate is defined by a front, rear, upper and lower boundary. These boundaries are known as butts and seams. The front and rear plate limitations are called butts and travel in transverse direction of a shell plate, while seams indicate any plate limitation in longitudinal direction of the plate.

The Shell application is dedicated specifically to all tasks related to shell plate development in different stages of the project life cycle: basic design and hull lines, engineering, and shell plate modeling and production tasks.

For more information, see the following sub-chapters: