Translate Nastran to ANSYS - seamless?
Translate Nastran to ANSYS - seamless?
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Hi all.
This site is quite neat, although I'm not getting that much work done...
I'm living thru the nightmare of exporting a MCS Visual Nastran 4 Windows (Femap version 8) to ANSYS, preferebly version 6.0. My geometry seems fine, but I've gone from 184 Nastran property numbers (for a quarter model of a passenger railcar) to 7600 Real Constant numbers in ANSYS.
Any suggestions?
This site is quite neat, although I'm not getting that much work done...
I'm living thru the nightmare of exporting a MCS Visual Nastran 4 Windows (Femap version 8) to ANSYS, preferebly version 6.0. My geometry seems fine, but I've gone from 184 Nastran property numbers (for a quarter model of a passenger railcar) to 7600 Real Constant numbers in ANSYS.
Any suggestions?





RE: Translate Nastran to ANSYS - seamless?
it's been a long time since I used the FEMAP translater but I do seem to recall this characteristic. If I remember right I had to colect all the similar reals and do an emodify to reduce the number of reals.......not a great answer but a solution non the less.
Good luck
RE: Translate Nastran to ANSYS - seamless?
do the import, then take the time to re-assign my element local axis directions in ANSYS.
Regards,
GA
RE: Translate Nastran to ANSYS - seamless?
1. GXY still exporting to Ansys while in isotropic material condition, which Ansys reject it.
2. Non-Linear function is not equivalent (stress-strain) if weread again using ansys interactive (5.4 to 6.1).
3. FEMAP having trouble converting from Ansys PREP 5.7.1 to 6.1 because the digit on element indicidences ( i have known to solve it).
If you had ansys i recomended that you are using ansys interactive than other mesher like FEMAP, PATRAN, Altair. I have seen some, but Ansys is the best on meshing and the best answer for your problem. I recommended that you had IGES form.
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RE: Translate Nastran to ANSYS - seamless?
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