Quick start

The easiest way to get started with DAVE is by downloading the portable version of the application.

This is a portable program, meaning that no installation is required. If needed you can even run it from a USB drive.

The table below provides and overview of

	Community	Professional
Allowed use	Non-commercial use Commercial evaluation Education Public research	Commercial use
Support	Public support by the community	Private priority support
GUI and API source-code	Yes	Yes
Possibility to extend using python	Yes	Yes
Limitations	Sometimes expires and needs to be downloaded again.	Fully functional
Rigging design module	-	optional
Vessels module	-	optional
Reporting module	Yes	Yes
Timeline module	-	optional
Dynamics module	beta	beta
License	Open source MPL2 for API and GUI Closed source for DAVEcore	Commercial
Extendable	Yes	Yes
Customizable	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Free	Very affordable
	link	Contact

After downloading extract the .zip file and run DAVE.exe