Orcina news

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.1e. Version 11.1e introduces some new functionality and fixes a number of bugs. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation.

We recommend that all users of 11.1 upgrade to 11.1e.

To upgrade to OrcaFlex 11.1e from any previous version, download the install program from your company’s Orcina software download page. A link to this page was sent to your software administration contact when we released 11.1a. If you do not have access to this page, please contact us.

Update: videos of the meetings are now available.

Following the release of OrcaFlex 11.2, we can now announce our OrcaFlex 11.2 user group meetings. Once again we are running these as virtual webinars.

These webinars will cover all the new features introduced in version 11.2 of OrcaFlex and OrcaWave. We will split the content into two separate webinars, one for OrcaFlex and one for OrcaWave. We will deliver each one of these two webinars twice in the same day, so hopefully most users can attend.

We anticipate that each webinar will be around one hour in duration, and attendees will be able to ask questions. Recordings of the webinars will be available on our website.

We are running the webinars over Zoom. You will need to register for whichever webinars you wish to attend, using the links below. Zoom webinars can be attended using the Zoom client, or directly from the browser if you do not have the Zoom client.

We learnt with our 11.1 UGM series that there are pros and cons to having these meetings as webinars, but we felt that overall the meetings worked very well online. In particular it was pleasing to receive so many questions during each webinar, and to see many attendees from geographical locations which we would not normally visit.

We look forward to catching up with our regular user group attendees, and hopefully some first timers too!

OrcaFlex new features

This webinar will introduce all the new features in OrcaFlex 11.2.

OrcaWave new features

This webinar will introduce the new features in OrcaWave, our diffraction analysis program.

We are very pleased to announce the release of OrcaFlex version 11.2. The software was finalised and built on 22^nd November. All clients with up-to-date MUS contracts will receive, in the week starting 29^th November, an e-mail with instructions on how to download the new version.

Version 11.2 introduces much new functionality, including:

• Seabed resistance modelling
• Turbine shear centre offset
• Turbine drivetrain flexibility
• OrcaWave restart analysis, variation models and change tracking
• OrcaWave Morison elements and stochastic drag linearisation
• OrcaWave decomposed panel results
• OrcaWave body data origins
• OrcaWave connections
• Vessel inertia compensation
• Extended Wavefront .obj support

These are the most significant developments, in our opinion. As always there are more enhancements that are not listed here. All new features are fully documented in the what’s new topics:

• OrcaFlex
• OrcaWave

Continue reading “OrcaFlex 11.2 released”

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.1d. Version 11.1d introduces some new functionality and fixes a number of bugs. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation:

• OrcaFlex
• OrcaWave

For OrcaFlex users, in addition to a number of bug fixes, version 11.1d now offers support for SHEAR7 version 4.11. For OrcaWave users, the multithreading bug fixed in this release could potentially have had a serious impact.

We recommend that all users of 11.1 upgrade to 11.1d.

To upgrade to OrcaFlex 11.1d from any previous version, download the install program from your company’s Orcina software download page. A link to this page was sent to your software administration contact when we released 11.1a. If you do not have access to this page, please contact us.

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.1c. Version 11.1c introduces some minor new functionality and fixes a number of bugs. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation:

• OrcaFlex
• OrcaWave

We recommend that all users of 11.1 upgrade to 11.1c.

To upgrade to OrcaFlex 11.1c from any previous version, download the install program from your company’s Orcina software download page. A link to this page was sent to your software administration contact when we released 11.1a. If you do not have access to this page, please contact us.

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.1b. Version 11.1b introduces some minor new functionality and fixes a number of bugs. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation:

• OrcaFlex
• OrcaWave

We recommend that all users of 11.1 upgrade to 11.1b.

To upgrade to OrcaFlex 11.1b from any previous version, download the install program from your company’s Orcina software download page. A link to this page was sent to your software administration contact when we released 11.1a. If you do not have access to this page, please contact us.

We had a fantastic series of OrcaFlex 11.1 user group meetings last week! Thank you to everyone who attended, we hope you found them interesting and informative.

Whilst we would love to have been able to see you in person, there were also tangible benefits from conducting the user group meetings in this way. For example, of the 386 individuals who attended one or more sessions, we had nearly 30 countries represented. Some of those present were from parts of the world we would not normally visit on a regular basis, such as Israel, Japan, Canada and Vietnam!

In all, we had over 800 attendees across all six sessions! It was incredibly encouraging to see such large numbers, as well as some really interactive Q&A sessions which, for us, were one of the highlights.

You can find recordings of all sessions on the videos page of our website, as well as on our YouTube page.

As previously announced, due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we are running our OrcaFlex user group meetings as virtual webinars. Now that version 11.1 has been released we can announce that these webinars will take place in the middle of March.

These webinars will cover all the new features introduced in version 11.1 of OrcaFlex and OrcaWave. There is a lot of content to cover. Because long online meetings can be quite demanding, we have decided to split the content into three separate webinars. We will deliver each one of these three webinars twice in the same day, so hopefully most users can attend.

We anticipate that each webinar will be around one hour in duration, and attendees will be able to ask questions. Recordings of the webinars will be available on our website.

We are running the webinars over Zoom. You will need to register for whichever webinars you wish to attend, using the links below. Zoom webinars can be attended using the Zoom client, or directly from the browser if you do not have the Zoom client.

We know that no webinar can be as engaging as an in-person meeting, but we will do our best to make it interesting. We look forward to catching up with our regular user group attendees, and hopefully some first timers too!

OrcaFlex restart analysis

This webinar will cover the new restart analysis feature. Supporting functionality including change tracking and enhanced analysis data will also be introduced.

OrcaWave new features

This webinar will introduce the new features in OrcaWave, our diffraction analysis program.

OrcaFlex new features (apart from restart analysis)

Having covered restart analysis separately, this webinar introduces all the other new features in OrcaFlex 11.1.

We are very pleased to announce the release of OrcaFlex version 11.1. The software was finalised and built on 12^th February. We originally planned to release 11.1 in Q4 of 2020. However, we delayed the release in order to complete the restart analysis development. We plan to make the next release in the traditional Q4 slot, later this year.

All clients with up-to-date MUS contracts will receive, in the week starting 22^nd February, an e-mail with instructions on how to download the new version.

Version 11.1 introduces much new functionality, including:

• Restart analysis, variation models, and change tracking
• Turbine pre-bend
• Turbine range graphs
• Hysteretic and externally calculated axial and torsional line stiffness
• Performance improvements for wave time history analysis
• Wire frame drawings specified by panels
• Embedded Python scripts as an alternative to external files
• OrcaWave intermediate results
• OrcaWave target roll damping
• OrcaWave performance improvements

These are the most significant developments, in our opinion. As always there are more enhancements that are not listed here. All new features are fully documented in the what’s new topics:

• OrcaFlex
• OrcaWave

Continue reading “OrcaFlex 11.1 released”

We have just released a minor upgrade to OrcaFlex, version 11.0g. Version 11.0g fixes a number of bugs in both OrcaFlex and OrcaWave. Full details of the changes are described in the documentation:

• OrcaFlex
• OrcaWave

We recommend that all users of 11.0 upgrade to 11.0g.

A patch to upgrade from earlier 11.0 releases can be downloaded here. The full installation program can also be downloaded from your Orcina download page. Please contact us if you do not have the link to your Orcina download page.