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Adding a Line in OrcaFlex

This document provides instructions for adding a line to a model in OrcaFlex and connecting one end of the line to a vessel. The key steps are: 1. Click the "new line" button and place the line ends roughly in position near the bow and in the water. 2. Select the left end of the line and press CTRL while clicking on the vessel to connect them. 3. Adjust the line position by dragging its ends and enter precise positions numerically if needed.

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Adding a Line in OrcaFlex

This document provides instructions for adding a line to a model in OrcaFlex and connecting one end of the line to a vessel. The key steps are: 1. Click the "new line" button and place the line ends roughly in position near the bow and in the water. 2. Select the left end of the line and press CTRL while clicking on the vessel to connect them. 3. Adjust the line position by dragging its ends and enter precise positions numerically if needed.

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4/20/2021 OrcaFlex Help

Contents

Introduction
Introduction
What's new in this version Tutorial: Adding a line
What was new in previous versions
Installing OrcaFlex
Running OrcaFlex
Parallel processing Now add a line. Using the mouse, click on the new line button . The crosshair cursor reappears –
Distributed OrcaFlex move the mouse to a point just to the right of the vessel and click. The line appears as a catenary loop
Orcina licence monitor at the mouse position. Move the mouse to a point close to the left-hand end of the line, press and hold
Demonstration version
OrcaFlex examples
down the mouse button and move the mouse around. The end of the line moves around following the
Validation and QA mouse, and the line is redrawn at each position. Release the mouse button, move to the right-hand end,
Orcina click and drag. This time the right-hand end of the line is dragged around. In this way, you can put the
References and links ends of the lines roughly where you want them. (Final positioning to exact locations has to be done by
Tutorial typing in the appropriate numbers – select the line with the mouse and double click to bring up the
Getting started
line data form.)
Building a simple system
Adding a line Move the line ends until the left-hand end of the line is close to the bow of the ship, the right-hand end
Adjusting the view lies above the water and the line hangs down into the water.
Static analysis
Dynamic analysis At this point, the line has a default set of properties and both ends are at ixed positions relative to the
Multiple views global origin. For the moment we will leave the line properties (length, mass, etc.) at their default
Looking at results
values, but we will connect the left-hand end to the ship. Do this as follows:
Getting output
Input data
1. Click on the line near the left-hand end, to select that end of the line; make sure you have
User interface
Automation
selected the line, not the vessel or the sea. The message box at the left-hand end of the status bar
Theory tells you what is currently selected. If you have selected the wrong thing, try again. (Note that you
Modelling, data and results do not have to click at the end of the line in order to select it – anywhere in the left-hand half of
Modal analysis the line will select the left-hand end. As a rule, it is better to choose a point well away from any
Fatigue analysis other object when selecting something with the mouse.)
VIV analysis
2 Release the mouse and move it to the vessel hold down the CTRL key and click The message box

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