DAVE is a work in progress (wip).
The roadmap below indicates which features are available and which are planned.
Feature | Status | Comments | |
Axis systems and general coordinates | complete | ||
Weight and inertia | complete | ||
Points and Circles | complete | ||
Cables | complete | No mass, can run over sheaves | |
Linear Beams | complete, but new features planned | Mass to be added | |
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 | |
Compound nodes | complete | Managers | |
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 | wip | 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 |