Makers of MOSES - The Final Answer in Marine Simulation
Rev. 7.00 Bug Fixes
REV NO: REV 7.00.001

DATE: October 14, 2004 Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado

Description Of Problem

Some hardcopy pictures may be cropped; i.e. not all of the picture will be shown.

REV NO: REV 7.00.002

DATE: October 14, 2004 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The commands logged from the terminal with a "gui" interface do not begin with a prompt.

REV NO: REV 7.00.003

DATE: October 15, 2004 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Commands the user did not issue were being put into the command history.

REV NO: REV 7.00.004

DATE: October 15, 2004 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

Logs from previous runs longer than 4096 characters were not displayed correctly on startup. Logs of any size should display correctly now.

REV NO: REV 7.00.005

DATE: October 15, 2004 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

Wireframe pictures would always rotate, even when rotate tool was not selected.

REV NO: REV 7.00.006

DATE: October 20, 2004 Discovered By: Yvan leipold

Description Of Problem

Commands from a cif file are not placed in the log file.

REV NO: REV 7.00.007

DATE: October 21, 2004 Discovered By:

Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

ToolTips (pop-up descriptions) do not automatically wrap in Windows.

REV NO: REV 7.00.008

DATE: October 24, 2004 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

Longitudinal strength using a #weight is not correct if the weight is in a part which has been moved.

REV NO: REV 7.00.009

DATE: October 25, 2004 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one is doing longitudinal strength, has a part which has been rotated 180 degrees, and which has a #weight in it he will get an error message "Zero Length Load Encountered". The results will also be incorrect.

REV NO: REV 7.00.010

DATE: October 25, 2004 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Water lines are drawn when they should not be and wire frame pictures are not properly centered.

REV NO: REV 7.00.011

DATE: October 28, 2004 Discovered By:

Description Of Problem

Fonts could not be changed through the Preferences dialog in Windows.

REV NO: REV 7.00.012

DATE: October 29, 2004 Discovered By: Roger Wever

Description Of Problem

If both WT and NWT downflooding does not occur at the same time, then one of the points listed as governing will be reported incorrectly.

REV NO: REV 7.00.013

DATE: November 01, 2004 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

If one begins with a graph, then wire frame pictures will be called GR instead of WF until a GL picture is drawn.

REV NO: REV 7.00.014

DATE: November 02, 2004 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Displaying a Wireframe picture after displaying a graph resulted in a picture that could not be modified.

REV NO: REV 7.00.015

DATE: November 03, 2004 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

Picture rotation in observer mode is not what one would want.

REV NO: REV 7.00.016

DATE: November 13, 2004 Discovered By: Jennifer Gong

Description Of Problem

Sometimes a Windows machine will stop when doing beam fatigue with a message "Floating Point Overflow".

REV NO: REV 7.00.017

DATE: November 18, 2004 Discovered By: Kelvin Frazer

Description Of Problem

If there are "a lot" of updates to a database function, MOSES may abort with a segment violation.

REV NO: REV 7.00.018

DATE: November 18, 2004 Discovered By: John Davis

Description Of Problem

If one creates a file in NOTEPAD and ends if without a carriage return, MOSES will not read the last line.

REV NO: REV 7.00.019

DATE: November 30, 2004 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one clicks on a GSPR connector, he will get a strange error message.

REV NO: REV 7.00.020

DATE: December 16, 2004 Discovered By: Hai Huang

Description Of Problem

The text is not properly positioned on plots/pictures saved as dxf files.

REV NO: REV 7.00.021

DATE: December 17, 2004 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

The wave drift force is not correct if one has an environment with two sea states.

REV NO: REV 7.00.022

DATE: December 17, 2004 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

Sometimes plots of mooring lines are not correct.

REV NO: REV 7.00.023

DATE: December 20, 2004 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

The previous fix for the effect of -A_SEA on wave drift force was incomplete.

REV NO: REV 7.00.024

DATE: December 20, 2004 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The last fix for the wave drift force broken the drift force for normal environments. This corrects that problem.

REV NO: REV 7.00.025

DATE: December 22, 2004 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

Sometimes a picture extends outside of the bounding box.

REV NO: REV 7.00.026

DATE: December 23, 2004 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

The string function &INFO(DATE) does not work as documented.

REV NO: REV 7.00.027

DATE: December 28, 2004 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

If one uses several seas with different directions, then the mean wave drift is not correct.

REV NO: REV 7.00.028

DATE: January 03, 2005 Discovered By:

Neel Datta

Description Of Problem

Opening multiple GL drawings and then closing only some of them could leave MOSES in an unstable state. Any further operations on the remaining GL drawings would then cause MOSES to crash.

REV NO: REV 7.00.029

DATE: January 06, 2005 Discovered By:

Neel Datta

Description Of Problem

The multi-selection dialog box was confusing and in certain cases could return selections with incorrect context.

REV NO: REV 7.00.030

DATE: January 07, 2005 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

Plotting of mooring lines with multiple segments is not always done correctly.

REV NO: REV 7.00.031

DATE: January 10, 2005 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

The drift forces are incorrect if one used -a_sea with directions that are not the same.

REV NO: REV 7.00.032

DATE: January 17, 2005 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one selects things via family and asks to annotate points, they may not get annotated.

REV NO: REV 7.00.033

DATE: January 18, 2005 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

Some pictures are not properly cropped.

REV NO: REV 7.00.034

DATE: January 31, 2005 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one has more than one body, the time domain drift force for the second one will be incorrect.

REV NO: REV 7.00.035

DATE: February 15, 2005 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

If one has headings too close together, then the drift force may not be correct if multiple environments are used.

REV NO: REV 7.00.036

DATE: February 15, 2005 Discovered By:

Description Of Problem

REV NO: REV 7.00.036

DATE: February 16, 2005 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The previous fix, 7.00.035 was not quite complete.

REV NO: REV 7.00.037

DATE: February 16, 2005 Discovered By: Edvin Hanken

Description Of Problem

If you have a "reasonably large" (12000 nodes 40000 elements and 1100 load cases) problem, MOSES may abort on WINDOWS machine. This seems to be a file buffering problem. I changed the maximum size for a single file to 2G and it seems to fix it.

REV NO: REV 7.00.038

DATE: March 02, 2005 Discovered By: Paul Dixon

Description Of Problem

If one has a hydrodynamic hull with zero permeability, then Tanaka Damping will not be computed on it.

REV NO: REV 7.00.039

DATE: March 04, 2005 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

There are several problems in the SACS converter when using rings.

REV NO: REV 7.00.040

DATE: March 07, 2005 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

&format does not work properly.

REV NO: REV 7.00.041

DATE: March 14, 2005 Discovered By: Yvan Leipold

Description Of Problem

The &picture -points xxx option does not work the way it was designed. It select all points xxx, not only those which have already been selected.

REV NO: REV 7.00.042

DATE: March 23, 2005 Discovered By: Bahrain

Description Of Problem

The -PLANE option of &PICTURE is broken.

REV NO: REV 7.00.043

DATE: March 24, 2005 Discovered By: Bahrain

Description Of Problem

One cannot annotate unity ratios as documented.

REV NO: REV 7.00.044

DATE: April 04, 2005 Discovered By: Ray Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

One gets an error message when he first starts the MOSES manual.

REV NO: REV 7.00.045

DATE: April 19, 2005 Discovered By: Rene Perez

Description Of Problem

The SACS and STRUCAD conversion of compression flange bracing on the GRUP card in incorrect for metric input.

REV NO: REV 7.00.046

DATE: April 21, 2005 Discovered By: Pierluigi Busetto

Description Of Problem

A WINDOWS machine in Italy cannot validate itself.

REV NO: REV 7.00.047

DATE: May 02, 2005 Discovered By: Gerrit Schmitt

Description Of Problem

If one has MOSES installed where one element in the path name is greater than 8 characters he cannot validate from the local machine.

REV NO: REV 7.00.048

DATE: May 18, 2005 Discovered By: John Evans

Description Of Problem

If one issues an &ENV command inside the FREQ_RESP menu then TS_POINT will not produce the neither the proper wave elevation nor clearance.

REV NO: REV 7.00.049

DATE: May 26, 2005 Discovered By: Roger Burger

Description Of Problem

If one restarts a run which did not have a defined weight and then defines one he will get an error.

REV NO: REV 7.00.050

DATE: June 02, 2005 Discovered By: Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

The "end coordinates" which one get by clicking on a connector are not in the global system as stated but in the first body system.

REV NO: REV 7.00.051

DATE: June 02, 2005 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

The wind force on a #table load group does not change with time even if a wind spectrum was specified.

REV NO: REV 7.00.052

DATE: June 08, 2005 Discovered By: Barry Miller

Description Of Problem

The fix 051 induced a problem with using multiple tdom commands in the same run.

REV NO: REV 7.00.053

DATE: June 11, 2005 Discovered By: John Evans

Description Of Problem

The CB and GM are incorrect when one has a tide.

REV NO: REV 7.00.054

DATE: June 17, 2005 Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado

Description Of Problem

The results obtained with REVIEW WATER are incorrect.

REV NO: REV 7.00.055

DATE: June 17, 2005 Discovered By: Andy Zhu

Description Of Problem

The string function &format(aXX ...) does not put blanks at the beginning.

REV NO: REV 7.00.056

DATE: July 12, 2005 Discovered By: Zahohui Wang

Description Of Problem

For some cases a solution cannot be found for a b_cat with spring buoys.

REV NO: REV 7.00.057

DATE: July 15, 2005 Discovered By: Zhaohui Wang

Description Of Problem

If one used PMOTION *1 and *1 has not been associated as an interest point, the "Sum" motion is garbage.

REV NO: REV 7.00.058

DATE: July 21, 2005 Discovered By: Andy Zhu

Description Of Problem

The SACS converter does not convert the displacement override on the GRUPOV card.

REV NO: REV 7.00.059

DATE: August 16, 2005 Discovered By: Peter Lai, Tim Nolte

Description Of Problem

The last two columns of &status g_lway are not correct for a two tilt pin tilt beam.

REV NO: REV 7.00.060

DATE: August 17, 2005 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

In some cases &status sn will result in the wrong sn curve being used.

REV NO: REV 7.00.061

DATE: August 20, 2005 Discovered By: Andy Zhu

Description Of Problem

ED_CLASS requires a complete redefinition of a class segment instead of a simple "editing".

REV NO: REV 7.00.062

DATE: August 24, 2005 Discovered By: R. Nachlinger

Description Of Problem

The previous fix did not work correctly.

REV NO: REV 7.00.063

DATE: September 16, 2005 Discovered By: Peter Lai

Description Of Problem

Beams defined with LLEG classes do not plot properly.

REV NO: REV 7.00.064

DATE: October 05, 2005 Discovered By: Greg Hook

Description Of Problem

The report of class resizes says old/new when it should say new/old.

REV NO: REV 7.00.065

DATE: October 19, 2005 Discovered By: Conrad Tao

Description Of Problem

AISC LRFD code check is missing a check against:

REV NO: REV 7.00.066

DATE: October 25, 2005 |Discovered By: Georgina Maldonado

Description Of Problem

The results returned by &COMPARTMENT(@ -ULLAGE) are not correct.