Blade Pre-bent

Wind & Water Computer-Aided Engineering Software Tools
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Hello,
I have a question about how to simulate the blade with pre-bent in FAST v7,I can not see any variable about blade pre-bent.Can you give me some advice?

Best Regard!
Ruiliang.Wang

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Dear Ruiliang,

In FAST v7 it is not possible to model pre-bent blades. The ability to model blade prebend (also known as precurve) was introduced with the BeamDyn module of FAST v8. I suggest you upgrade.

Best regards,