Open-Ocean

DAVE GUI [standalone, portable]

A quick and easy way to get started with DAVE is by downloading the Graphical User Interface. This is a…

A practical guide to modeling vessels for offshore operations using Orcaflex

Many offshore operations can be modeled using first order time domain analysis. Setting up the vessels for such a model…

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…