OrcaFlex User Group

We organise an annual series of OrcaFlex User Group Meetings which take place between September and December. All OrcaFlex users are welcome and attendance is free. For more information about these events, please email enquiry@orcina.com.

We finally finished our 2011 round of User Groups, having again returned to Houston, Perth, Kuala Lumpur, Aberdeen, and Rio. We also ran a UGM in Oslo this year. Our intention is to alternate this venue with Stavanger. Lastly we moved our third European UGM from Paris to Schipol to assist those flying in from other locations. Thank you all for coming - it was great to see lots of familiar faces and to match faces to some we’ve known only as names! The papers and models can now be downloaded from this page (links below).

This year we had 272 attendees – we hope you found the day useful. Many thanks for your feedback on the UGM and OrcaFlex, your thoughts and ideas are always welcome (at any time!) and always noted. These have been added to our development list — Up-to-date plans for OrcaFlex can be found in the OrcaFlex Support area of the website. There were some changes to the presentations this year — individual papers were not included so that more time could be given to the new features and worked examples. This was in response to the feedback from attendees in previous years. The presentation explaining the recent developments in OrcaFlex and future development was well received. As with previous years, most of the new features were a direct result of requests from the previous user group sessions. We hope you find the new features useful. The short worked examples were based on common questions submitted to our Support area. They included resolving spinning buoys, BSR design loads and the modelling of Spanning and Fenders. From the responses at the meeting we expect many people will find these useful. One of the longer worked examples covered some more advanced issues on Midwater Arch modelling. We would recommend looking at the standard examples in A02 Midwater Arch Systems first. The other two were illustrations of more complex (and powerful) automation methods, YAML and Python. YAML is useful for dealing with large or complex sets of OrcaFlex model data. Python can be used for repetitive tasks or where actions are needed in response to the produced results, i.e. feedback loops. The guest speakers, all OrcaFlex users, were well received. Thank you to our nine guest speakers who took time out of their busy schedules to prepare and present. I hope you enjoyed the experience:

Minerve Batrony of OMUS
Ewan Brown of OMUK
Hayden Marcollo of AMOG
Jacob Qvist of 4 Subsea
Gunawan Suwarno, Dedy Rintho and Yvan Ser Yee Fang of Sapura Acergy
Hubert Brinkhuis of Bluewater
Nelson Galgoul of Suporte

Finally, we shall continue to hold these meetings annually and planning is already underway for 2012. The main user group meeting page will be updated with information shortly. We look forward to meeting you there.

Download presentations from the 2011 User Group events:

Presentations from previous User Group events are available for download: