Orcina news

Here you will find the latest news on the development of OrcaFlex. Alongside our LinkedIn page, it is a valuable source of information about what we are up to!

OrcaFlex 9.8 released

We are very pleased to announce the 2014 major release of OrcaFlex, version 9.8. The software was finalised and built on 28th October. The next step is for us to prepare the installation program, and then dispatch the software. All clients with up-to-date MUS contracts should receive the new version early in November. Version 9.8 introduces a […]

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OrcaFlex 9.7 released

Another year passes, another OrcaFlex release arrives. After a couple of years where the release date drifted later into the year, this time around we managed to finish version 9.7a in September. All clients with up-to-date MUS contracts will have received the software by now. Version 9.7a contained a number of minor bugs. To address […]

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OrcaFlex 9.6 released

We are very pleased to announce the 2012 major release of OrcaFlex, version 9.6. As always it takes time to produce and despatch installation CDs but clients with up-to-date MUS contracts can expect to receive the software in the first half of November. In fact we are thinking of switching to electronic distribution for future releases, […]

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OrcaFlex 9.5 released

We are very pleased to announce the 2011 major release of OrcaFlex, version 9.5. As always it takes time to produce and despatch installation CDs but clients with up-to-date MUS contracts can expect to receive the software in the first half of November. The major enhancements introduced in 9.5 are as follows: Slam loads. Wave drift […]

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OrcaFlex 9.4 released

A whole year has now passed since we released OrcaFlex 9.3 which means that it is time for the release of OrcaFlex 9.4! As always it takes time to produce and despatch installation CDs but clients with up-to-date MUS contracts can expect to receive the software some time around the end of August. The major […]

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OrcaFlex 9.3 released

As now seems to be traditional, here at Orcina we have spent the summer months working very hard to complete a major upgrade to OrcaFlex. The result is OrcaFlex 9.3 which was formally released early in August. We have just despatched the final upgrade CD and so all customers with up-to-date MUS contracts will have […]

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OrcaFlex post-processing spreadsheet

We have recently become aware that the version of the OrcaFlex spreadsheet released with OrcaFlex 9.2 has some performance problems. These do not always manifest themselves and we have not seen the problems ourselves. Fortunately a small number of clients have raised the issue and we have been able, with help from those clients, to […]

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Non-linear Seabed Soil Model Released

We have now released the non-linear seabed soil model in OrcaFlex 9.2e. The model has been developed by Professor Mark Randolph (Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, University of Western Australia), a recognised expert in this field, and we have been working with Mark to implement the model in OrcaFlex. The model is for modelling the […]

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OrcaFlex 9.2 released

We are very pleased to announce the release of OrcaFlex version 9.2a. We are now starting the process of producing the installation CDs and customers with up to date MUS contracts should receive the upgrade in the middle of September. There are a great many enhancements to the software which we described in the previous […]

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OrcaFlex 9.2 new features

It’s been a long time since our last article and we’ve all been very consumed with work for OrcaFlex 9.2. We are nearly ready to release this major upgrade and are now in a position to announce the new features which it will introduce. The major enhancements fall into the following categories: Performance Bend Stiffener […]

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