Maxsurf 20.

02 V8i ReadMe

Maxsurf 20.02 V8i

ReadMe 17 December 2013

This ReadMe file describes the changes in Maxsurf 20.02 V8i suite of software. This is a
patch to known issues in 20.01 V8i

System Requirements:
 32-bit versions will run on Windows XP/Vista/7, and
 64-bit versions will run on Windows 7 64-bit.

Contents
Changes from 20.01 to 20.02 V8i ...................................................................................... 2
Maxsurf Modeler...................................................................................................... 2
Maxsurf Stability...................................................................................................... 2
Maxsurf Motions ...................................................................................................... 2
Changes from 20 to 20.01 V8i ........................................................................................... 3
Maxsurf Modeler...................................................................................................... 3
Maxsurf Stability...................................................................................................... 3
Maxsurf Resistance .................................................................................................. 4
Maxsurf Structure .................................................................................................... 4
Maxsurf Motions ...................................................................................................... 4
Silent Installation option now available ................................................................... 5
Software updates ................................................................................................................ 6
Maxsurf Modeler...................................................................................................... 6
6483, 6748: Windage surface groups definition ............................................ 6
6753, 6429: Units dialog ................................................................................ 6
6730: New Markers features .......................................................................... 7
6727: Export render mesh .............................................................................. 8
Bug fixes and minor changes ....................................................................... 10
Maxsurf Stability.................................................................................................... 10
Additional Tank Display options ................................................................. 10
Inserting tank plans in reports ...................................................................... 11
7166: SACS Cargo Import changes ............................................................. 11
6483, 6748: Windage surface groups definition .......................................... 13
6644: Custom drafts to user datum .............................................................. 18
6447: Auto-ballast confirmation .................................................................. 19
Bug fixes and minor changes ....................................................................... 21
Maxsurf Structure .................................................................................................. 21
Plate clash detection..................................................................................... 21
Bug fixes and minor changes ....................................................................... 23
Maxsurf Motions .................................................................................................... 23
7166: SACS Cargo Import changes ............................................................. 23
Second Polar Graph view............................................................................. 23
Ochi Hubble Spectrum................................................................................. 23
User defined heel and trim for panel method ............................................... 24
Bug fixes and minor changes ....................................................................... 25
Maxsurf Resistance ................................................................................................ 25
Korean Register Barge Resistance ............................................................... 25
Problem Reports ..................................................................................................... 26

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Changes from 20.01 to 20.02 V8i

The following fixes and changes that have been made to fix known problems with
release 20.01 V8i. It is highly recommended that you install the updated version of the
software.

Maxsurf Modeler

 7525: COM interface to Marker Surface error added

 7499: After importing a dxf files as curves and clicking on the delete curve button a
crash occurred. File specific with dxf files containing large numbers of curves
(>1000). This has been fixed.

Maxsurf Stability

 7484: Problems with the Probabilistic damage analysis indicating the at the vessel
had sunk have been fixed. This problem occurred for some models when starting
the heel range with a negative heel angle; in this case all results indicated that the
vessel had sunk.
 7467: Errors in the calculation of tank fluid product inertias Ixy and Ixz have been
fixed.

Maxsurf Motions

 7527: Motions Reporting – several issues have been addressed:

if no template is specified, then only a limited set of results are sent to the report
(summary results table and polar graph);
to obtain other results, a template document must be used;
remote location RAOs table and graph only reported if remote locations defined;
polar plot only reported if it is valid (multiple speeds and headings);
potential crash when reporting for a strip theory model with <5 sections has been
fixed.
 7497:After saving a results file from the menu clicking on the save button in the
toolbar saved a .skd file with .skr extension. This has been fixed.
 7476: A problem when trying to calculate the Strip theory section or Panel method
computational mesh through COM (VBA) has been fixed. Previously when trying to
calculate the geometry, Motions would return an error to the calling program.

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Changes from 20 to 20.01 V8i

The following fixes and changes that have been made to fix known problems with
release 20 V8i. It is highly recommended that you install the updated version of the
software.

Maxsurf Modeler

 6897: Dragging a surface using the Move Surface | Freeform option allowed
symmetrical surfaces to be dragged over the centerline when the ctrl key was not
down. This has been fixed.
 Importing Rhino models: We have recently found that prior to importing a trimmed-
surface rhino model into Maxsurf Modeler it is often very useful to run the
ShrinkTrimmedSrf command on all the trimmed surfaces in Rhino. This generally
creates a much more robust model and reduces the size of the file.
 7457: Importing Rhino v5.0 file trimming fail – model specific. Fixed.

Maxsurf Stability

 7456: A problem in the “Forces heeling arm” where the vertical centres (mean draft
/ 2; vert. centre of projected lat. u'water area; and waterline) were always zero has
been fixed.
 7387: Some problems with criteria using the newly added “Velocity Profile” wind
heeling arm have been fixed. A warning is now also given if a heeling arm which
uses the actual inclined-vessel projected lateral plane windage areas has been
selected, but the calculation of these areas has been turned off in the Preferences.
 7358: An automatic recalculate and update of all loadcases now occurs
immediately after changing the “Empty damaged tanks” status. Previously this
only occurred when starting an analysis or manually choosing the “Update
Loadcase” command.
 7346: The Sounding pipes must be defined from the top down. Color coding has
now been added if an error in the definition has been made.
 7343: For models without the new definitions of windage and immersed lateral
plane area surfaces, errors in the reported windage and immersed areas and
vertical centers in the stability results occurred (the areas used for criteria
evaluation remained correct, however). These problems have now been fixed.
 7323: A problem when using both “Simulate fluid movement” and not “Empty
damaged tanks” when doing a damaged analysis for an analysis using a loadcase
has been fixed. The problem was that the tanks would not damage greater than the
volume of fluid specified in the tank. This problem only occurred when both
options: “Simulate fluid movement” and not “Empty damaged tanks” were
selected.
 7319: A problem with the animation of Equilibrium analysis results of the vessel in
a wave which prevented the wave profile or immersed sections from updating has
been fixed.
 7295: Comparable numbers of sections are now used between Modeler, Stability
and Motions when computing vessel hydrostatics; the number of sections used
depends on the model/surface precision. Some minor differences are due to the
fact that Modeler places sections only over the length of the immersed hull at the
DWL whereas Stability places then over the entire length of the model. A problem
with Stability indentifying the immersed length for some models with trimmed
underwater surfaces has also been fixed.

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 7236: A problem when trying to run a KN analysis via COM (e.g. VBA automation)
using a draft range (rather than a displacement range) has been fixed. The problem
manifested itself by indicating that no displacements had been set and terminating
the analysis.
 6956: A problem when accessing the Loadcase mass or center of gravity via COM
(e.g. VBA automation) after a trimmed or heeled analysis had been completed
which caused the tanks’ soundings and ullages to be recalculated for the inclined
vessel has been fixed.
 7290: When opening a design with a NURB surface with a non-uniform knot vector
a dialog box was displayed with no message. This has been fixed.

Maxsurf Resistance

 7406: KR Barge methods now indicates which data are used for the analysis.
 7399: Slender body resistance results are now flagged as needing recalculating in
the results table if the speed range or other analysis parameters are changed.

Maxsurf Structure

 7397: Plate contours were sometimes not expanding correctly when plate ran
across a surface feature line. This has been improved.
 7281: For plates on long skinny surfaces, sometimes the expanded contours (eg
section/buttock/water lines) were inaccurate on the developed plate in the part
view. This has been fixed.
 6981: Maxsurf structure can now export trimmed surface plates to Rhino file
format.

Maxsurf Motions

 7414: A problem when setting heel and trim for the panel method has been
rectified. A COS(heel) factor was omitted when calculating the specified trim, this
meant that when applying a heel angle, the actual vessel trim was slightly different
that that requested (by the COS of the heel angle – thus for small heel the
difference in trim was quite small). Also trim and heel results have been added to
the Hydrostatics dialog table.

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Silent Installation option now available

As of Maxsurf v20.01 our installers now fully support silent installation.

Silent installation can be used to allow deployment of Maxsurf suites across multiple
machines and enterprise environments easily.

In order to use Silent Installation – you must pass the parameter ‘-q’ to the appropriate
setup.exe on the command line. In addition, because we do no longer select any suites
by default though, you must also specify the suites you’re interested in installing using
the SUITE=xxx option.

Where xxx can be replaced with MaxsurfSuite, MaxsurfAdvancedSuite or

MaxsurfEnterpriseSuite.

See the examples below:

MaxsurfSetup.exe -q SUITE=MaxsurfSuite
MaxsurfSetup.exe -q SUITE=MaxsurfAdvancedSuite
MaxsurfSetup.exe -q SUITE=MaxsurfEnterpriseSuite

You can specify multiple suites at the same time too, just separate the suites you’re
interested in with a comma (,).

For example the following line would install every Maxsurf suite at once:
MaxsurfSetup.exe -q SUITE=MaxsurfSuite,MaxsurfAdvancedSuite,MaxsurfEnterpriseSuite

Please note that during normal installation we ask whether the default libraries and report
templates should be updated. With a silent install we always install the latest libraries
and templates, so if you have custom libraries or templates then you will want to back
them up and restore them yourself after installation.

These are:
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Maxsurf\MaxsurfXX\WorkshopLibrary.slb
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Maxsurf\MaxsurfXX\Stability Criteria Library.hcr
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Maxsurf\MaxsurfXX\Report Templates\StabilityBooklet.dot
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Maxsurf\MaxsurfXX\Report
Templates\HMReportTemplate.dot

Where XX should be replaced by the major version number of Maxsurf. e.g. 20

As the installation occurs in the background you will not be given any indication of
progress of when the installation has fully finished. Please check the task manager to
ensure the process has completed or ensure you allow sufficient time.

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Software updates
The following section describes the changes that have been made to the various
programs.

Maxsurf Modeler

6483, 6748: Windage surface groups definition

The windage profile may be displayed in Modeler by turning on "Windage Profile" in the
Display | Contours dialog (see section on Maxsurf Stability for further details):

6753, 6429: Units dialog

The units dialog has been updated so that masses may be displayed in kilopound-force
(kip). The dialog clarifies that values displayed in tones, kg, etc… are in fact mass and
not weights; that said when using kilopound-force, the masses are multiplied by standard
acceleration due to gravity (9.80665m/s2) to yield a weight. This option applies to all the
Maxsurf applications.

Option to display mass as a weight in kip.

For example:
Item mass = 1000 kg; g = 9.80665 m/s2
Item weight = 9806.65N; N per lbf = 0.45359237*9.80665 = 4.448221615
Item weight = 2204.622622lbf
Item weight = 2.204622622kip

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6730: New Markers features

Several new features have been added to the Markers which are designed to assist when
fitting surfaces to large Marker datasets (for example from laser scans).

The first is an option to color-code the Markers by their distance from their assigned
surface. Ensure that all the markers of interest have the correct surface associated with
them (Markers table, or Markers properties); then select Measure Surface Error from the
Markers menu:

Measure the distance of the Markers from their associated Surfaces.

Then in the Edit Preferences dialog, select “Show Marker Error with color gradient”

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Markers are now color-coded according to the distance from the surface (dark blue: closest; red: furthest away)

The second option is to hide markers that are below an acceptable distance from the
surface. Enter the acceptable distance in the Markers table (the fill-down option can be
convenient to do this). Then choose “Hide Acceptable Markers” from the Display |
Markers menu:

Hide Markers that are within an acceptable distance of their associated surface.

6727: Export render mesh

The render mesh can now be exported in three new file formats *.obj, *.x and *.stl:

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Bug fixes and minor changes

 7204: Correct second display of "Baseline" text in Vessel Type dialog if model has
Frame of Reference displayed
 7200: It is now possible to import STL files as a Trimesh model.
 7165: The problem of when having selected “Feet and inches” units the
measurements being shown in “Decimal feet” and vice-versa has been corrected.
 7108: Symbol for knots has been changed from kts to kn across all apps
according to ISO standards.
 7097: An issue where the Frame of Reference and design grid was not getting
scaled with the design using Quickstart has been fixed.
 7093: An issue where trimming gets lost when merging designs has been fixed.
 7052: An extruded linear surface has stiffness =1 (should be 2). Fixed.
 7006: Crash in parametric transformation dialog if waterline length is 0m (i.e fully
submerged). Fixed.
 6739: When porcupines are displayed a modeless dialog will now be displayed for
adjusting the porcupine length.
 6737: Cutting surfaces are now duplicated when a surface is duplicated.
 6893: Users are warned when trying to bond edges that have grouped control
points.
 6808: The Surface Areas dialog correctly accounts for surface visibility (invisible
surfaces are omitted from the table)

Maxsurf Stability

Additional Tank Display options

Two new options have been added to the tank display. These enable a transparent,
shaded representation of the fluid-plane in the tank (or floodwater plane in the case of a
damaged compartment) to be displayed; as well as a cross-hatch of the tank extremities.
The shaded fluid level is shown in the Plan and Perspective views only. The tank-filling
levels are taken from the currently selected loadcase.

Shaded tank fluid-planes

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Shading of damaged floodwater-planes

Tank cross-hatching in Plan and Profile views

Inserting tank plans in reports

Several new tags have been added that may be placed in a MS Word report template to
insert tank plan drawings into the report.. These are as follows:
<Global-TankPlan>
<Global-TankBodyPlan>
<Global-TankProfile>

7166: SACS Cargo Import changes

Some changes have been made to the SACS cargo import dialog so that the data is the
same as the Transport analysis input file (trninp.*).
Joints 1 and 2 define the origin of the cargo. The x- and z-values or the cargo origin point
are those of Joint 1; the y-value of the cargo origin point is the average of the y-values of
Joints 1 and 2. The vector Joint1-Joint 2 now defines the port-direction of the cargo and
Joint 3 is used to define the horizontal plane and longitudinal direction.

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6483, 6748: Windage surface groups definition

A range of enhancements to the way the windage areas and underwater projected areas
are defined and calculated have been added to the Maxsurf vessel model. These data may
be defined and edited in both Maxsurf Modeler and Maxsurf Stability via the Windage
Surfaces dialog in the Data menu.

Windage Surfaces dialog (Data menu)

If no Windage groups are defined, then the older system for the calculation of windage
and lateral projected underwater area is used. That is the hydrostatic sections are
projected into the transverse plane. The outer perimeter formed by joining the upper and
lower limits of these projected sections is then used to calculate both the windage area of
the hull and the underwater projected area. The zero-trim waterline at the current midship
draft is used to determine which part of the projection is underwater and which part is
windage area. Because of these limitations, the effects of vessel trim and "holes" in the
model are not accounted for by this older method. The new method overcomes these
limitations as well as adding new features.

Windage Groups
The concept of a Windage Group has been added. This groups together model surfaces
which should be treated as a single object. There are always at least two Windage Groups
and the first one defines the surfaces that should be used to calculate the underwater
lateral projected area. Individual surfaces may be included in multiple Windage Groups.
Apart from the underwater group, Windage Groups have various factors associated with
them:
 F_drag: winage drag factor; default value 1.0
 F_shield: shielding factor; default value 0.0
 F_user: a user-defined factor; default value 1.0
 Ftotal  Fdrag .1.0  Fshield .Fuser

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Windage Groups may be added and deleted with the respective buttons in the dialog. The
surfaces to be included in each group are defined in selected by double clicking in the
"Surfaces" cell in the table, in a similar manner to the selection of boundary surfaces for
Tanks and Compartments.

Windage Group definition and Surface selection

The color of the Windage Profile outline can be changed in the Colors dialog; the
underwater profile is shown using the "Immersed Sections" color.

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Color selection

Wind direction
The Windage direction specifies the projection direction used for the surfaces: 90deg.
gives a projection in the lateral plane; 0deg. gives a direction in the longitudinal plane.
Angles between 0 and 180deg are allowed since the sign of the projection vector does
not matter.

Note that to improve performance, the projected windage contour uses a fairly coarse
surface mesh. This may result in the projected windage contour not exactly
corresponding with the surface edges, but the effect on projected area and center of area
is negligible. Due to the calculation method used for the projected conoturs, it is possible
that some visual artifacts may be present but again these have negligible effect on
projected area and center of area.

Windage projections viewed in profile at 90deg (upper) and 70deg (lower)

Display
In Maxsurf Stability, when the vessel is at the DWL, the normal windage profile view is
shown and the wind profile groups may be modified. However once a Large Angle
Stability analysis has been performed, it is possible to select the windage profile used for
any of the defined velocity profile wind heeling arms (see below for deails).

Display | Windage Profile dialog

Effect of heel

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Maxsurf Stability has the option of using just the upright (zero heel) projected windage
profile or calculating the actual projection of the heeled vessel. The option is specified in
Edit | Preferences dialog. It should be noted that calculating the projected windage
profile at each heel angle can add significantly to the time required to complete the
analysis. For criteria evaluation, the underwater lateral projected area and center of area
for the upright (zero heel) vessel is always used; however the wind heeling moment will
use the actual inclined (including heel) projected windage area if this option has been
selected in the Preferences dialog.

Upright or heeled/inclined projected windage area calculation preference

Windage profile calclated for the upright vessel and used for all heel angles

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Windage profile calclated using heeled/inclined projected windage area method

Criteria: Velocity profile wind heeling arm

A new criterion wind heeling arm has been added that allows the definition of a vertical
velocity to be specified. This heeling arm is always velocity-based (not pressure-based);
furthermore only the model-defined windage profile is used (there is no option for
additional area).

Wind heeling arm with velocity profile option

The velocity profile is defined by a series of horizontal strips parallel and above the
waterline. Each strip has a factors which is applied to the base velocity. This is done so
that the same velocity profile can easily be maintained for different base wind velocities.
To apply a uniform velocity profile (constant velocity at all heights) then simply specify

Uniform velocity profile

For a variable velocity profile simply specify the number of heights and the factor for
each height range: When entering the data for the velcity profile enter: "height , factor".
Heights must be in descending order. A height can he changed by typing "height"; a
factor can be changed by typing ", factor"

Variable velocity profile

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When a variable velocity profile is selected for display, the different height zones are
displayed.

Wind profile showing height zones defined in the selected variable wind velocity heeling arm

The wind heeling moment is calculated by dividing the windage profile in to the defined
height zones and applying the velocity profile. This is done for all the windage groups
whose contributions are then summed to give the total wind heeling moment. This is
divided by the vessel displacement to obtain the total wind heeling arm. Thus the wind
heeling arm, arm wind , is given by:
a. cos n ( )  
arm wind  
g. heights
2

v. f height   Ftotal group. Agroup.(hgroup  H )  
groups 
where:
a is a constant (typically half the density of air);
cos n ( ) defines the shape of the heeling arm (typically this would be 0.0 if the
calculation of the actual windage profile at each heel angle option has been selected);
g. is the weight-force of the vessel;
 ... accounts for the summation over all the height intervals specified for the
heights

velocity profile, with a base velocity of v and a factor at each height f height ;

 ... accounts for the summation over all the defined windage groups;
groups

Ftotal group is the total factor for the windage group defined as
Ftotal  Fdrag .1.0  Fshield .Fuser
Agroup is the area of the windage group
hgroup is the vertical height of the center of area of the windage group
H is the height to be used for the assumed center of lateral resistance of the underwater
part of the hull.
6644: Custom drafts to user datum

The custom drafts have been extended to allow the draft to a user-defined datum to be
measured. As with normal drafts measured to the Baseline, these drafts are also
measured perpendicular to the Baseline (i.e. perpendicular to the DWL of the vessel at
zero trim). (Noting that immersed depths to underside of keel –USK- are measured
perpendicular to the actual (trimmed, heeled) waterplane.

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Custom Draft Marks extended to provide user-defined datum

Different types of user-defined draft measurements

6447: Auto-ballast confirmation

The auto ballasting command now confirms the required and actual displacement, LCG
and TCG; the error tolerances are based on those defined in the Edit | Preferences dialog.

Confirmation of Auto-Ballasting results

If there are errors, these will be highlighted in red in the loadcase “Target disp.” row:

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Warning when Auto-Ballasting cannot achieve required values

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Bug fixes and minor changes

 7201: A problem whereby the loadcase item centroids were saved in the rotated
reference frame (not Upright ship reference frame) has been corrected. This
problem occurred if saving an individual loadcase to a .hml file with the vessel
rotated to the results of an analysis. Saving the entire model to the standard
Stability .hmd data file did not have this problem.
 7169: Results for the areas and centroids of the windage and immersed lateral
plane areas are now available in the Analysis results table (Display | Data format
dialog)
 7167: The effect of wind direction is now included in the velocity profile wind
heeling arms.
 Tanks, compartments, non-buoyant volumes, etc. are now referred to collectively
as Rooms.
 Some issues with the visibility of tanks in rendered mode have been fixed.
 Fixed issues with GHS imported models containing linked negative tanks, these
now remain negative components when changing the parent rooms to
compartments and back.
 Improved the "extent of damage" command which determines whether or not a
room intersects a damage space; previously some false positives were generated.
 The “Add Keypoint” menu item now has the correct wording.
 6967: A crash which sometimes occurred when exporting a GHS file for a model
with lots of linked tanks, compartments and neg.linked compartments has been
fixed.
 6902: It is no longer necessary to select File | New when starting loadcases, room
definition etc. Simply start adding (Edit menu or Ctrl+A) rows.
 6889: The colour used to show damaged tank names has been corrected.
 6815: The incorrect units for the Compact version of the cross-referenced heeling
arm criterion: ratio of GZ above heeling arm has been corrected to % (from m).
 6731, 6720: Keypoint labels are now the same color as the keypoints (to facilitate
differentiation from Loadcase load items)
 6647: Fuel densities according to ISO 8217 have been added to the standard list of
fluid densities.
 6359: The drawn Margin line is now properly refreshed when the Margin line data
are changed.
 5968: Section not forming correctly when Skin Thickness option is activated,
model specific. Fixed.

Maxsurf Structure

Plate clash detection

A warning dialog will now be displayed when two plates created on the same surface
overlap. Plate clash detection can be turned on and off from the preference dialog ( Edit
| Preferences…).

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Strucutre will warn which plates are overlapped by the newly correctly plate:

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Bug fixes and minor changes

 7058: Rhino files can be exported from Structure in two forms now. Firstly with all
parts as NURBS surfaces, secondly with all parts as trimeshes. To execute choose
File | Export | Rhinoceros 3dm file | NURBS Surfaces/Mesh Surfaces.
 6959: Deducted frame not working correctly - model specific. Fixed.
 6933: Inclined frames can now be exported to Rhino file.
 6744: Stringers added on a surface in the section plane not rendering correctly.
Fixed.
 6715: String cutout not extending with stringer angle to frame. Fixed.

Maxsurf Motions

7166: SACS Cargo Import changes

See Stability section for details.

Second Polar Graph view

The original polar graph view has been renamed the Polar view, since in this view iso-
level contours of the selected result data are displayed on a polar plot with speed as the
radial axis. A new Polar Graph view has been added where the plot shows the same
selected result data plotted on the radial axis (against heading) with one curve for each of
the speeds tested.

Polar plots of selected result data

Ochi Hubble Spectrum

The Ochi Hubble two parameter spectrum has been added to the standard list of sea state
spectrum. The Ochi Hubble spectrum is unique in that it allows for the generation of a
sea stat that has two peaks, one representing the swell (long period) and one representing
the sea (short period). A typical spectrum may look like this:
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User defined heel and trim for panel method

The model can now be placed at any attitude by using the trim and heel dialogs. A panel
analysis can then be run on the oblique underwater shape. The “Heel” and “Draft and
Trim” dialogs can be accessed from the Analysis menu. They are only available if the
analysis type is set to Panel Method. Once the heel and trim has been set the analysis
mesh will need to be recalculated.

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Bug fixes and minor changes

 7199: Motions has been corrected so that the Panel method meshing and analysis
will work on a systems using the “,” character as the decimal delimiter instead of
the “.” character.
 7170: It is now possible to export the SACS Cargo table as a .cgo file for loading
into SACS Stability.
 7164: When searching for SACS cargo files, “sacinp.*” files are shown by default
instead of all files.
 Some issues with the data plotted in the Polar contour graph have been addressed.
 The maximum number of frequencies that can be calculated has been increased to
500.
 7116: Roll phase was incorrect for Wave Excitation forces of a Panel method
analysis.
 6977: Added resistance for panel method is now calculated (Havelock method).
 6931: COM interface has been updated with Panel Method functionality.
 6918: User can now specify the upper and lower limits of the frequency range for
motions to be calculated at.
 6837: Adding incorrect parameters to a section in the library was displaying a
blank dialog. Fixed.
 6825: A water depth can now be set for the Panel method analysis.
 6814: A problem which prevented calculation of added resistance using Havelock’s
method has been fixed.
 6777: Cancelling a panel method analysis part way through was leaving temporary
files on disk. Fixed.
 6754: A problem with the COM commands for adding remote locations has been
fixed.
 6750: A better estimate of the range of frequencies to be covered is now used for a
vessel with forward speed in following waves. This results in more results in the
frequency range of interest.
 6695: Ocraflex Drift Force File export has been added to the File | Export menu.
 6658: Ocraflex motions files can now be exported directly from Motions via the File
| Export menu.
 6503: Angular velocity and accelerations are always given in rad/s and rad/s/s,
irrespective of user selected units for angle or frequency.

Maxsurf Resistance

Korean Register Barge Resistance

A new barge resistance algorithm has been implemented. The method is based on the
resistance prediction algorithm in “Rules for the Towing Survey of Barges and
Tugboats” 2010 issued by Korean Register of Shipping and is suitable for box shaped
vessels operating in displacement mode.

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Problem Reports
We greatly appreciate any bug reports or suggestions you may have. Please report any
bugs or anomalies you find through www.bentley.com/serviceticketmanager .

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