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This section presents the main components of your .DSK model files, as they display in the model browser pane located on the left hand side of the main window. A model consists in a number of data types, including :

  • QA Information: this information is to help users maintaining a high level of QA throughout a project study, and further helps archiving your model files at the end of the project.

  • Types: the types are used to define data that can be assigned to model components, such as Line types (i.e. mechanical properties that will be assigned to the lines in your model), Floater motion types (i.e. motion characteristics that will apply to the floaters), Contact types (properties used to model contact interactions between lines and other model components like lines, rigid bodies or Sea & Ground).

  • Model: the model consists in several components - such as lines, floaters, buoys, rigid bodies, etc...

  • Analyses & Analysis sets: you can define multiple analyses within the same project file, and further group the analyses together in sets. This facility is useful when dealing with large load cases matrices including various environmental loadings.

  • Fatigue analyses: the fatigue analyses contain the definition of your fatigue post-processing requests.

  • Zones Study: the Zones Study post-processing requests lists series of post-processing instructions that aim at getting results statistics for a range of analyses all grouped in the same results table.

  • BOP study: the list of all BOP studies included in the model.

  • Hull dynamic pressures: the list of hull dynamic pressures studies.

  • Structural Code Check Study: you can define code check study with the aim to launch structural code checks computations whose results are ratios on elements to check.