Introduction

The Bladed “Project Info” screen allows options to be specified which are either in development or do not yet have an associated GUI screen.

Entering Project Info Data

These “Project Info” options can be activated by going to File > Project Info... and then ticking Turbine Calculations (dtbladed.exe) and then clicking Define:

All three boxes on this “Non-standard options” dialog box are optional, so the “Special data” can be provided without specifying a new executable location or additional arguments. The “Special data” field is a free-form text box, the contents of which appear within the bulk of the DTBLADED.IN file (the input file for the dtbladed executable).

Most options in this document are added in a module called EXTRA. Entries are added as part of this module in the following manner

MSTART EXTRA
...
MEND

The extra module contains miscellaneous additional options. If many options are added in the same MSTART-MEND block, then the order of these sections is critical, as the file gets read sequentially.

Several MSTART EXTRA modules can be used together in Project Info for increased clarity. In this case, the data groups can be added in any order.

MSTART EXTRA
Use Discon
MEND

MSTART EXTRA
Strain Gauges on Tower
MEND

Code in the input data can be commented out by using the asterisk (*). Any characters on a line after an asterisk will not be read in. This has been used extensively used in articles to describe each line. This is optional and code comments need not be included.

Each block has been written such that it may be copied directly into the special data box in Bladed. Some text editors will add new lines when you paste the data.

When there is a line that requires many values to be entered, they may be space, tab or comma separated. No other delimiters are accepted by the parser.

Last updated 10-06-2024