DAVE is a work in progress (wip).
The roadmap below indicates which features are available and which are planned.
| Feature | Status | Comments | |
| Bending moment calculations | complete | ||
| Wind forces | complete | ||
| Axis systems and general coordinates | complete | ||
| Weight and inertia | complete | ||
| Points and Circles | complete | ||
| Cables | complete | No mass, can run over sheaves. Optional support of weight | |
| Linear Beams | complete | ||
| Shape based buoyancy | complete | ||
| Connectors 2d, 6d and hydrostatic | complete | ||
| Fluid tanks | complete | Shape based tanks with user defined volume of fluid. Full support of free surfaces | |
| Joints | complete | via degrees of freedom in general coordinate system | |
| Force | complete | global forces only | |
| Components | complete | ||
| Analytic catenary | not started | ||
| Contact model | complete | Contact mesh and contact-balls – compatible with anysim fenderball | |
| Static equilibrium solving | complete | ||
| Construction GUI | complete | ||
| Explore GUI | works | Multi-parameter optimizations to be added | |
| Stability GUI | complete | ||
| Framework GUI | not started | For constructing frames using beam elements | |
| Rigging GUI | in progress | Rigg-it-right added and functional Slings added Shackles added Grommets still todo | |
| Ballasting GUI | works | some minor fine-tuning needed | |
| Automatic ballasting | works | to be optimized further, see issue #4 | |
| GUI Mode shapes | works | works but not validated | |
| Frequency domain response | ready for testing | work in progress. Damping not implemented | |
| Combination of RAO and full wave spectrum | not started | via MaFreDo | |
| Jupyter support | operational | Works in Jupyter labs and Jupyter notebooks Support for blender renders to be added | |
| Export to Blender | works | Works, including animations | |
| Import from Capytaine | works | via MaFreDo |