Question regarding HydroDyn Strip Theory Implementation

Dear Jason,

Now I got it. I wasn´t aware that the surface normal to the member surface where the distributed loads are applied is ment here. Slide 13 from your link was very helpfully.

Thank you, this helps alot!

Okay that makes sense to me, that single nodes are necessary for the load mapping procedure in SubDyn.

I got one question with regard to MoorDyn. I am not sure if I should open a new thread on this. I will try it here anyow.

How do I set up pretension of the mooring lines? I didn´t find any hint on this for MoorDyn while I found out that for FEAMooring it is possible to specify pretension.

Once again thank you and your team for your time and engagement in providing those tools and support.

Best regards,
Daniel