Chapter 1: Overview

AQL is an interface from Aqwa to Excel. It is intended to facilitate the development of Excel spreadsheets that require data from Aqwa databases. The interface consists of a series of Excel functions that can be accessed within the spreadsheet to recover data directly from the Aqwa database. A typical example might be an application that tabulates motions of a particular structure and then undertakes a post-processing exercise.

Key features are:

  • Direct access to the Aqwa database information using Excel Function calls

  • Recovery of RAOs using structure number, frequency and direction

  • Recovery of time history results

  • Error trapping

  • Simple installation