Rev. 5.01 Bug Fixes
REV NO: REV 501.001

DATE: January 11, 1995 Discovered By: Bouyges Offshore

Description Of Problem

MOSES aborts with Ran out of Space message when a lot (over 400) combination load cases are defined. Programs Affected: MOSES


REV NO: REV 501.002

DATE: January 11, 1995 Discovered By: Steve Rowden

Description Of Problem

Problems can occur when changing processes and doing frequency domain analysis.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.003

DATE: January 11, 1995 Discovered By: John Windus

Description Of Problem

When defining Multiple Pieces, one get a spurious warning. Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.004

DATE: January 16, 1995 Discovered By: John Windus

Description Of Problem

When Using an old hull description and a new mesh model, it is possible that surfaces will be redefined without warning.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.005

DATE: January 17, 1995 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

The PC aborts with a co-processor fault when some jobs are restarted.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.006

DATE: January 18, 1995 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

Programs will "forget" the current state when restarted.

Programs Affected: all


REV NO: REV 501.007

DATE: January 26, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Sometimes a non-convex panel will not be caught by the convex checker. When this happens, a bad diffraction mesh may result.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES


REV NO: REV 501.008

DATE: January 27, 1995 Discovered By: Guillaume le Marechal

Description Of Problem

Default eccentricity in STRUDL should be local instead of global.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.009

DATE: January 28, 1995 Discovered By:Yvan

Description Of Problem

IY and IZ on PRI of STRUDL model is swapped. Programs Affected:All with connie


REV NO: REV 501.010

DATE: February 02, 1995 Discovered By: John Windus

Description Of Problem

For some strange geometries, panels can be emitted from the &surface menu with the wrong normal.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.011

DATE: February 04, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

It a program is run with only an entry to &SURFACE, it will abort when it is rerun with the same root unless the database is tidied.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.012

DATE: February 05, 1995 Discovered By: C. Owens

Description Of Problem

With some problems, in the &SURFACE Menu, the panel system direction cosine matrix will not be computed correctly.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.013

DATE: February 22, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

A program treats the angle defined with the -anchor option as a global angle rather than one relative to the body.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.014

DATE: February 23, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

&pltmodel mesh will not work on a HP, if an input panel is not convex and it must be triangularized.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.015

DATE: February 27, 1995 Discovered By: Steve Rowden

Description Of Problem

The righting arms in the static process menu do not work.

Programs Affected: MOSES, OSCAR II


REV NO: REV 501.016

DATE: March 2, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The STRUDL converter emits too many shape dimensions.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.017

DATE: March 13, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

A manual printed on a postscript device will have some extra backslashes in it.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.018

DATE: March 13, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

If one issues prcomp -no_rao, followed by &export h_dbase, followed by RAO, he will get a harmless error message.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.019

DATE: March 14, 1995 Discovered By: Dave Kummer

Description Of Problem

Results of a time synthesis differ more than they should if one has a different number of headings.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.020

DATE: March 15, 1995 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

If one does EQUI followed immediately by LAUNCH, then it is possible that the launch will "hang" if it almost slides in the equilibrium configuration.

Programs Affected: OSCAR II, MOSES


REV NO: REV 501.021

DATE: March 22, 1995 Discovered By: Mr. Gras

Description Of Problem

If one immediately follows an EQUI with a PRCOMP, then the viscous damping will not be properly computed.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.022

DATE: March 23, 1995 Discovered By: Peter Lai

Description Of Problem

Sometimes after a RARM, one may get error in computing tank depth. This is purely a cosmetic problem.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.023

DATE: March 23, 1995 Discovered By: Peter Lai

Description Of Problem

Hydrostatics with waves does not always work correctly.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.024

DATE: March 23, 1995 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The default factor for wave drift damping is not correctly set.

Programs Affected: all


REV NO: REV 501.025

DATE: March 28, 1995 Discovered By: Carl Webb

Description Of Problem

If one attempts to export a hydrodynamic database in a run where either a PRCOMP or an RAO has not been issued, bad data will be emitted.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.026

DATE: April 03, 1995 Discovered By: John Windus

Description Of Problem

If one issues a STORE command in the disposition menu, the values for variables greater than the sixth one will be incorrect.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.027

DATE: April 04, 1995 Discovered By: Yuon Hui Sun

Description Of Problem

In some cases, one can get an error message that weight exceeds maximum displacement when it is not true.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.028

DATE: April 27, 1995 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The SACS converter has problems with metric input. Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.029

DATE: May 16, 1995 Discovered By: Georgina Moldonado

Description Of Problem

A #PLATE *p1 *p2 *p3 gives an incorrect error.

Programs Affected: All


REV NO: REV 501.030

DATE: July 20, 1995 Discovered By: PetroMarine

Description Of Problem

A PC may abort with a "character buffer too small" when using the string function &BODY(.. EXNODE).

Programs Affected: All