Batch processing: Script files

OrcaFlex provides special facilities for running a series of variations on a base data file, using a script file. This contains a sequence of commands to read a data file, make modifications to it, and run the modified file, storing the results for later processing. The file can also include comments. The syntax for the instructions is described in the next topic.

Script files can be written using any text editor. However, it is quite unusual to do this because there are very productive facilities in the OrcaFlex spreadsheet for automatically generating script files for regular sets of cases.

A more recently introduced alternative to script files are text data files. These can be used to specify load case variations. Once again, the OrcaFlex spreadsheet offers a facility to generate these text data files.