Open-Ocean

Fixing meshes

DAVE uses meshes for calculation of buoyancy and tank volumes. These meshes have to be clean and coherent. No holes,…

The making of xmas 2020

The xmas2020 Christmas card was prepared in DAVE and finalized with Blender. The tug is the the Husky with a…

DAVE version 1.5

Export to orcaflex Documentation Beams and catenaries Marine: Carene tables, conversion of shape-based buoyancy to linear springs Documentation The documentation…

Orcaflex export teaser

Release 1.4 – Tanks and thanks

Release 1.4 Features: Tanks with a free fluid surface are now available. They work in the same way as buoyancy…

Update of Naming conventions

Following other technology companies and in light of recent events the technical terminology of master/slave has been changed to main/secondary.…

Reporting and Jupyter Lab

Designing something awesome is fun. But there comes a time when you need to report and document what you did…

DAVE 1.3 release

DAVE 1.3 has been released. This is a major update with the focus on rigging design and reporting. This post…

Spyder

Spyder (link) is a popular IDE for working with python. I personally recommend using jupyter lab instead of spyder because…

Vessel stability 2

This is the second article about stability of heavy lifts and transports. This one covers loads that are suspended in…