Expensive CAD API calls for ship hydrostatics property evaluation is a software problem in Developer Tools. It has a heat score of 62 (demand) and competition score of 47 (existing solutions), creating an opportunity score of 43.9.
Desktop applications performing ship stability simulations need to evaluate up to 160 different properties (waterline length, width, water entry angle, etc.) from CAD models via API calls. Each property evaluation is computationally expensive, and developers struggle to structure systems that only evaluate requested properties without coupling data and logic layers.
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“How to structure dependent, cached property evaluation without coupling data and logic? I am building a desktop application that performs ship stability and hydrostatics simulations by using a 3D model designed by the user in a CAD program, using that program's API. When simulation is complete, my application needs to perform various measurements (evaluations), based on what user requested before starting the simulation. For example, user might require measurements like waterline length, width, ”
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