Rev. 6.00 Bug Fixes
REV NO: REV 600.001

DATE: September 26, 2001 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Tubes were refined based on wave length even when the wave was not applied.


REV NO: REV 600.002

DATE: October 17, 2001 Discovered By: Marcelo Canga

Description Of Problem

Install fixes


REV NO: REV 600.003

DATE: October 22, 2001 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one "uses" too many macros one may get a program error "VALID COMMAND STACK OVERFLOW".


REV NO: REV 600.004

DATE: October 22, 2001 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

One cannot use a - sign in a plot title or legend.


REV NO: REV 600.005

DATE: October 23, 2001 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one uses the out of date command STRING in the out of date &INTEREST REPORT menu, he will get an error message.


REV NO: REV 600.006

DATE: October 25, 2001 Discovered By: Stolt Offshore

Description Of Problem

The minimum difference between a set of angles was around three degrees. This is too large for some applications. It is now around 1 degree.


REV NO: REV 600.007

DATE: October 26, 2001 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

Notes are not bound to categories on a #elat command.


REV NO: REV 600.008

DATE: October 30, 2001 |Discovered By: R.Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Code checks for beams with "plate added" are not correct.


REV NO: REV 600.009

DATE: November 02, 2001 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

If one restarts, then medits, and then adds a class, he will get an error "Invalid Function Name".


REV NO: REV 600.010

DATE: November 04, 2001 Discovered By: Paul Dixon

Description Of Problem

It seems that using a cargo weight of 1 will change the results of FR_CARGO into producing "g" results.


REV NO: REV 600.011

DATE: November 05, 2001 Discovered By: Nelson Galgoul

Description Of Problem

The hardware key is not automatically installed on Windows NT or 2000.


REV NO: REV 600.012

DATE: November 07, 2001 Discovered By: John Windus

Description Of Problem

If one has a &describe body name, and name is not an existing body when in the FREQ_RESP menu, then the RAOs turn to rubbish. This fix issues a warning.


REV NO: REV 600.013

DATE: November 07, 2001 Discovered By: Dave Kummer

Description Of Problem

If one has a a column with constant values in the disposition menu and he asks for statistics, then a Windows Machine will abort.


REV NO: REV 600.014

DATE: November 07, 2001 Discovered By: Charles Liu

Description Of Problem

The new tank flooding scheme requires too small a time step.


REV NO: REV 600.015

DATE: November 08, 2001 Discovered By: McDermott

Description Of Problem

Sometime one can "loose" part of a picture if one has connectors.


REV NO: REV 600.016

DATE: November 12, 2001 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

The new SACS converter omits redundant beams


REV NO: REV 600.017

DATE: November 12, 2001 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The &connect -L_TEN does not work very well for a taut line.


REV NO: REV 600.018

DATE: November 13, 2001 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

If the solution system is not the normal system, plate results are not correct.


REV NO: REV 600.019

DATE: November 14, 2001 Discovered By: McDermott

Description Of Problem

Under some conditions a time domain, dynamic flooding can get hung.


REV NO: REV 600.020

DATE: November 16, 2001 Discovered By: Charles Liu

Description Of Problem

The units reported for flow rate are in cubic xxx per second, not minute.


REV NO: REV 600.021

DATE: November 17, 2001 Discovered By: Nelson Galgoul

Description Of Problem

One cannot perform a stress analysis and use a pipe.


REV NO: REV 600.022

DATE: November 19, 2001 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The TANK_FLD report is wrong.


REV NO: REV 600.023

DATE: November 19, 2001 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

SRESPONSE does not work properly with environments that have an -a_sea option.


REV NO: REV 600.024

DATE: November 26, 2001 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one has a rod with two nodes, but one of them belongs to ground and if he does not define a depth and bottom slope, then rubbish may result.


REV NO: REV 600.025

DATE: November 29, 2001 Discovered By: Charles Liu

Description Of Problem

The units on the -pump option of the &compartment command are not correct.


REV NO: REV 600.026

DATE: December 29, 2001 Discovered By: R.Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

In some cases, MOSES may not compute the proper pretension for a vertical rod.


REV NO: REV 600.027

DATE: January 07, 2002 Discovered By: Heerema

Description Of Problem

The weight of a h_cat line not properly applied to the second body (if it is not ground).


REV NO: REV 600.028

DATE: February 12, 2002 Discovered By: Charles Liu

Description Of Problem

If one uses a class for a sp_beam and regular beams, the regular beams may not be properly reported.


REV NO: REV 600.029

DATE: February 18, 2002 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Changing the length of a GSPR connector does not work properly.


REV NO: REV 600.030

DATE: February 19, 2002 Discovered By: R.Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one has different "systems" (number of bodies, parts, etc) in different processes, MOSES gets confused when one changes processes.


REV NO: REV 600.031

DATE: February 20, 2002 Discovered By: R.Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one changes the system with &DESCRIBE SYSTEM, previously defined connectors get confused.


REV NO: REV 600.032

DATE: February 27, 2002 Discovered By: Mr. Jung

Description Of Problem

A gspr element with two nodes should not have an automatic offset generated to make the element have zero force initially. This makes setting up gaps quite hard. This change affects only gspr elements with two nodes. Now, the deformation is the difference in the nodes unless the user defines an offset.


REV NO: REV 600.033

DATE: April 09, 2002 Discovered By: Marcelo Canga

Description Of Problem

A loop from 0 to -1 will be executed one with a value of 0.


REV NO: REV 600.034

DATE: April 18, 2002 Discovered By: JJ Joon

Description Of Problem

The -euler -X option does not work properly.


REV NO: REV 600.035

DATE: April 19, 2002 Discovered By: JJ Joon

Description Of Problem

The stiffness of a GSPR with a -conepy included is not correct. The force, however, is.


REV NO: REV 600.036

DATE: April 23, 2002 Discovered By: JJ Joon

Description Of Problem

The options -euler +y and -euler -y and -euler +z and -euler -z are interchanged. NOTICE, if you are using these option, you need to change the data to get the results you had before.


REV NO: REV 600.037

DATE: April 24, 2002 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

In some cases one can "run out of space" when importing a hydrodynamic database.


REV NO: REV 600.038

DATE: May 24, 2002 Discovered By: Marcelo Canga

Description Of Problem

Sections which are not doubly symmetric, or those that use to -reference option are not correct.


REV NO: REV 600.039

DATE: May 29, 2002 Discovered By: Marcelo Canga

Description Of Problem

If one tries to do a BMOM_SHR with a sp_beam before he does a BEAM, he get nothing for results.


REV NO: REV 600.040

DATE: June 04, 2002 Discovered By: Several

Description Of Problem

WINDOWS has a bug so that it does not free memory as it should. As a result, one may get a message "Cannot Allocate More Memory".

This fix changes the MOSES memory model to an old one which uses a fixed amount of space. With this model, the number specified via -MAXA is a true limit to the amount of memory used. This may cause problems.


REV NO: REV 600.041

DATE: June 04, 2002 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one specifies a blank subtitle and no title, then a control character will be printed in the title place in the output.


REV NO: REV 600.042

DATE: June 04, 2002 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

In certain cases on windows, MOSES will try to allocate more space than it needs.


REV NO: REV 600.043

DATE: July 23, 2002 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

If one does not define nodes to associate with a load group, the part associated with the load map for this load group may be incorrect.


REV NO: REV 600.044

DATE: August 07, 2002 Discovered By: Anbin Wang

Description Of Problem

The moments reported by &status f_connector are not correct. There are either 12 or 39.36 too large depending on the units used. This is simply a reporting problem everything else except the report is correct.


REV NO: REV 600.045

DATE: August 08, 2002 Discovered By: Anbin Wang

Description Of Problem

The Y moment for a GSPR or FOUNDATION connector has the wrong sign.


REV NO: REV 600.046

DATE: August 08, 2002 Discovered By: Anbin Wang

Description Of Problem


REV NO: REV 600.047

DATE: September 04, 2002 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

Setting individual multipliers for different categories does not work for element attributes.


REV NO: REV 600.048

DATE: September 05, 2002 |Discovered By: Ambin Wan

Description Of Problem

Sometimes an &INSTATE -draft will not get "exactly" the right results.


REV NO: REV 600.049

DATE: September 16, 2002 Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado

Description Of Problem

If one "inputs" points on a graph, it will corrupt the plots on a WINDOWS machine.


REV NO: REV 600.050

DATE: September 17, 2002 Discovered By: Edvin Hanken

Description Of Problem

On a WINDOWS machine a three node plate may cause an Arithmetic Exception. This is cause by scaling undefined (and unused) numbers.


REV NO: REV 600.051

DATE: September 18, 2002 Discovered By: Edvin Hanken

Description Of Problem


REV NO: REV 600.052

DATE: September 27, 2002 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

It ullage reported is incorrect if a tank is flooded at its minimum percent full.


REV NO: REV 600.053

DATE: October 01, 2002 Discovered By: Bahrain

Description Of Problem

If you uses a category multiplier on a category containing #elat's on beams, then the B_W status will not be correct. (The forces are computed correctly, etc. The only problem is the B_W report.)


REV NO: REV 600.054

DATE: November 19, 2002 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one has an extremely stretchy HCAT, then he may get


REV NO: REV 600.055

DATE: January 14, 2003 Discovered By: Ketil Roaldsnes

Description Of Problem

If one is plotting pictures to a window while and doing a g_press from a macro, MOSES will forget which body should be used.

an error with &connector -l_hori or -l_ten.


REV NO: REV 600.056

DATE: January 16, 2003 Discovered By: Ketil Roaldsnes

Description Of Problem

The previous fix (rev6.00.055) did not work in all cases.


REV NO: REV 600.057

DATE: January 21, 2003 Discovered By: Tor Einar Kolstaloekken

Description Of Problem

MOSES will sometimes get a co-processor fault on windows when END is issued in the STRUCT Menu.


REV NO: REV 600.058

DATE: January 25, 2003 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem


REV NO: REV 6.00.059

DATE: January 25, 2003 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

A rotational "spr" or "gspr" will have a stiffness 12 or 39.36 too large depending on the units being used.


REV NO: REV 6.00.060

DATE: January 27, 2003 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The fix rev6.00.058 omitted a units conversion factor. Therefore the sling length reported was off by a


REV NO: REV 6.00.061

DATE: January 27, 2003 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The fix rev6.00.060 still did not fix the dynamic


REV NO: REV 6.00.062

DATE: February 05, 2003 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one defines a beam load in the opposite sense as the beam definition, it may be place on the beam incorrectly.