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Introduction, Installing OrcaFlex � You will need to install from an account with administrator privileges. 12 w � If installing from disc, insert the OrcaFlex installation disc and run the Autorun.exe program on the disc (on many machines this program will run automatically when you insert the disc). Then click on 'Install OrcaFlex'. � If you have received OrcaFlex by e-mail or from the web you will have a zip file, and possibly a number of licence files (.lic). Extract the files from the zip file to some temporary location, and save the licence files to the same folder. Then run the extracted file Setup.exe. � You will also need to install the OrcaFlex dongle supplied by Orcina. See below for details. For further details, including information on network and silent installation, click on Read Me on the Autorun menu or open the file Installation Guide.pdf on the disc. If you have any difficulty installing OrcaFlex please contact Orcina or your Orcina agent. Orcina Shell Extension When you install OrcaFlex the Orcina Shell Extension is also installed. This integrates with Windows Explorer, and associates the data and simulation file types (.dat and .sim) with OrcaFlex. You can then open an OrcaFlex file by simply double-clicking the filename in Explorer. The shell extension also provides file properties information, such as which version of OrcaFlex wrote the file and the Comments text for the model in the file. For details see the file OrcShlEx\ReadMe.htm on the OrcaFlex installation disc. Installing the Dongle OrcaFlex is supplied with a dongle, a small hardware device that must be attached to the machine or to the network to which the machine is attached. Note: The dongle is effectively your licence to run one copy (or more, if the dongle is enabled for more copies) of OrcaFlex. It is, in essence, what you have purchased or leased, and it should be treated with appropriate care and security. If you lose your dongle you cannot run OrcaFlex. Warning: Orcina can normally resupply disks or manuals (a charge being made to cover costs) if they are lost or damaged. But we can only supply a new dongle in the case where the old dongle is returned to us. Dongles labelled 'Hxxx' (where xxx is the dongle number) must be plugged into the machine on which OrcaFlex is run. Dongles labelled 'Nxxx' can be used in the same way as 'Hxxx' dongles, but they can also be used over a network, allowing the program to be shared by multiple users. In the latter case the dongle should be installed by your network administrator; instructions can be found in the Dongle directory on the OrcaFlex installation disc. Types of Dongle Dongles are available for either parallel or USB ports, and these are functionally equivalent so far as OrcaFlex is concerned. In general, USB dongles are preferred, since they seem to be more reliable. In any case, parallel ports are becoming less common on new machines. By default, 'N' dongles can hold up to 10 OrcaFlex licences for use over a network. We can supply dongles with larger capacities on request. Dongle Troubleshooting We supply, with OrcaFlex, a dongle utility program called OrcaDongle. If OrcaFlex cannot find the dongle then this program may be used to check that the dongle is working correctly and has the expected number of licences. For details see the OrcaDongle help file. The OrcaDongle program is included on the OrcaFlex installation disc, and you may choose to install it from the Autorun menu in the same way as OrcaFlex. It is also available for download from www.orcina.com/Support/Dongle. Also on our website, users of network dongles may find the Orcina Licence Monitor to be useful. This application keeps track of the number of OrcaFlex licences claimed on a network at any time. Diagnostics If OrcaFlex fails to start, with the error that it can't obtain a licence, then please check the following. � If you are using a network dongle, are all the licences in use? The Orcina Licence Monitor may be of use in determining this. If they are, you will need to wait until a licence becomes free before you can run OrcaFlex.
w 13 Introduction, Running OrcaFlex � If you are using a local dongle, is it plugged into your machine? If so, is the dongle device driver installed? You can check this by running OrcaDongle. If the driver is not present, it may have been uninstalled by another program: if so, you can fix this by Repairing the OrcaFlex installation (from the Windows Control Panel, select 'Add or Remove Programs' (XP) or Programs / Programs and Features (Vista), select the OrcaFlex entry, select Change then Repair). If this still fails, you can install the driver by downloading from our website, and running, the file Hasp-Setup.msi. � Does the dongle you are using have an OrcaFlex licence on it? Again, you can check this with OrcaDongle. � Do you have a licence file for the dongle you wish to access? This file will be named Nxxx.lic or Hxxx.lic (where xxx is the dongle number) and will be in the OrcaFlex installation folder. If not, then you should be able to copy the required file(s) from the root level of the OrcaFlex installation disc into the installation folder. If none of these help, then please contact us at Orcina with a description of the problem. Ideally, please also email to us the diagnostics file named OrcLog.txt which OrcaFlex will have written on failing to find a licence. This file can be found in the folder "%appdata%/Orcina/OrcaFlex": to open this folder, select Start menu | Run… and enter the text between the quotes (including the '%' characters). 1.2 RUNNING ORCAFLEX A shortcut to run OrcaFlex is set up on the Start menu when you install OrcaFlex (see Start\Programs\Orcina Software\). This shortcut passes no parameters to OrcaFlex so it gives the default start-up behaviour; see below. If this is not suitable you can configure the start-up behaviour using command-line parameters, for example by setting up your own shortcuts with particular parameter settings. Default Start-up OrcaFlex has two basic modules: full OrcaFlex and statics-only OrcaFlex. A full OrcaFlex licence is needed for dynamic analysis. When you run OrcaFlex it looks for an Orcina dongle from which it can claim an OrcaFlex licence (either a full licence or a statics-only licence). By default, it first looks for a licence on a local dongle (i.e. one in local mode and connected to the local machine) and if none is found then it looks for a licence on a network dongle (i.e. one in network mode and accessed via a licence manager over the network). This default behaviour can be changed by command-line parameters. If OrcaFlex finds a network dongle and there is a choice of which licences to claim from it, then OrcaFlex displays a Choose Modules dialog to ask you which modules you want to claim. This helps you share the licences with other users of that network dongle. For example if the network dongle contains both a full licence and a statics-only licence then you can choose to use the statics-only licence, if that is all you need, so that the full licence is left free for others to use when you do not need it yourself. The Choose Modules dialog can be suppressed using command-line parameters. Command Line Parameters OrcaFlex can accept various parameters on the command line to modify the way it starts up. The syntax is: OrcaFlex.exe Filename Option1 Option2 … etc. Filename is optional. If present it should be the name of an OrcaFlex data file (.dat or .yml) or simulation file (.sim). After starting up OrcaFlex will automatically open that file. Option1, Option2 etc. are optional parameters that allow you configure the start-up behaviour. They can be any of the following switches. For the first character of an option switch, the hyphen character '-' can be used as an alternative to the '/' character. Dongle Search switches By default the program searches first for a licence on a local dongle and then for a licence on a network dongle. The following switches allow you to modify this default behaviour. � /LocalDongle Only search for licences on a local dongle. No search will be made for network dongles. � /NetworkDongle Only search for licences on a network dongle. Any local dongle will be ignored. This can be useful if you have a local dongle but want to use a network dongle that has licences for more modules.
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