Release Date: August 17th, 2015 (v2.18)
ProteusDS v2.18 Release Announcement
- Improved pre-visualizer, with ability to scale axes and initial support for Cable selection
- Renamed ‘Initial Condition’ to ‘State’ through documentation and UI to make way for improved handling of initial conditions, restarted simulations, etc.
- Refactored user experience in PST via updated iconography
- Revised PST layout, new DObject shortcuts
- Added description of DObject/Feature/Connections to respective creation dialogues
- Added Node 0 and Node N velocity plotting capabilities in PostPDS to facilitate single leg mooring steady state analysis
- Revised ExtMassCylinder rendering location/orientation
- Improvements to PostPDS touch-screen interface
- Enhancements to ‘presentationSettings.dat’ functionality
- Added on-the-fly cable disconnection for PDS API
- Added option for accounting of the cable radius with the simple cable soil contact model.
- Corrections to cable connection — pinned connection is forced when P1/P2 are not specified.
- Added rotational stiffness to force connection
- Added descriptions to PST for DObjects, connections, and features.
- Added descriptions to PST for DObject state vectors.
- Added two new WaypointModes to Waypoint Feature: Smooth velocity transitions via cosine function, velocity waypoints
- Added RigidBody Thruster feature.
- Fixed the time varying current profile — it is no longer reliant on the TRamp system for changing currents.
- Added ballast tank feature
- Changed the default CDt on rigid body hydrodynamics features from 0.01 to 0.0
- Improvements to cable hydrodynamics loading model
- SCable Extmass bug fix
- Added submergence probe for cables.
- Consolidated variable drag and buoyancy functionality under VBuoy flag for PointMasses, ExtMasses, and Cable models.
- Added preliminary support to PST for pre-visualizing ExtMasses on Net DObjects