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OrcaFlex Manual - Orcina

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Automation, Batch Processing<br />

Figure: Example table for automatic batch script generation<br />

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The script generated by this table loads a base case from a file called "Base Case.dat". Because no path is specified<br />

then this file is located in the same directory as the spreadsheet. Four cases are produced based on this data file with<br />

current values of 0.5 and 0.8 and line lengths of 100 and 120.<br />

Notes: The cell containing the base case data file name has the file name surrounded by quotes. This is<br />

because the file name contains a space. However, the quotes are not needed for the file names in<br />

the last column because they do not contain spaces.<br />

The generated script adheres to the formatting specified in the Excel cells. So, if a cell is formatted<br />

to have, say, 1 decimal place, the corresponding value in the script will also have 1 decimal place.<br />

The script is generated as follows. First select the cell containing the text Script Table. Then drop down the<br />

<strong>OrcaFlex</strong> menu contained in the main Excel menu and click Create Batch Scripts. When you do this you are<br />

presented with the following window:<br />

Figure: Automatically generated batch script

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