Here is an API that will create a group with the laminate elements with no orientation. The Nastran team send me this. By the way, when i said they could not help me, i meant, at that instant, and not that they were not capable.
Sorry for the missleading coment Nastran support team. You guys...
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Thanks dmacx. The Nastran support team told me the same thing. I tried finding the elemets. I imported the bulk data to excel and started looking. After looking through
about 15000 elements and finding about 100 elements with
no number in those spots, i gave up. I still had 25000 elements to go...
Does anyone know how to detect or display which elements are missing an orientation in Nastran 9. I use Femap as the modeler and before Femap calls Nastran I get an error that says: "18 laminate elements were written with default orientation. Usualy laminates require a specific orientation". My...
