Support

		OrcaFlex The OrcaFlex Support section contains details of recent OrcaFlex releases and information on future developments of OrcaFlex that we are working on. We organise OrcaFlex User Group meetings annually and also provide a variety of Software Training courses. Validation documents for OrcaFlex are available for download.

		Demo CD Our Demo CD contains demonstration versions of OrcaFlex, OrcaLay and OrcaBend.

		Implicit Integration OrcaFlex 9.0 introduced an implicit time integration scheme, in addition to the existing explicit integrator. The Implicit Integration page gives more detailed information and guidance for the using the implicit integrator.

		Windows Vista All Orcina software will run under Vista, but older versions of Orcina software may be require updates to be installed. The Windows Vista page gives details of these updates. OrcaFlex 9.1 is fully compatible with Vista and can be installed directly without requiring any of these updates.

		Dongle Support The Dongle Support section contains software to help solve problems with Orcina dongles.

		Distributed OrcaFlex and Orcina Licence Monitor Distributed OrcaFlex is a suite of programs that enables a collection of networked, OrcaFlex licensed computers to run OrcaFlex jobs, transparently, using spare processor time. The Orcina Licence Monitor is a service that monitors the current number of OrcaFlex licences claimed on a network in real time.

		OrcaFlex Shaded Graphics Support The Shaded Graphics Support section gives advice on how to get the best out of OrcaFlex shaded graphics.

		Benchmarking and hardware recommendations Advice for choosing hardware to run OrcaFlex is provided on the OrcaFlex Benchmark page.

		External Function examples OrcaFlex includes a facility to specify data in a user-defined function which we refer to as External Functions. The feature is documented in the OrcaFlex and OrcFxAPI help files. Some example external functions are supplied on the OrcaFlex CD. Alternatively these example functions, together with full documentation, can be downloaded here: ExternalFunctionExamples.zip (205 KB).

		Windows Installer Some downloads from this site require Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0 or greater. This is built into Windows from XP onwards, but may not be available on earlier versions of Windows. If it is not available on your system, you can obtain the appropriate version from the Microsoft website.