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API: Freebody Objects - GetElements Method
One more thing I thought of that might help and probably explains why this wasn't a straightforward error... When declaring variables for FEMAP objects, both of these are technically okay: Dim fn as femap.node Dim fnObj as Object Both cases will work and your compiler (or in the case of the...- gtae2002
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- Forum: Siemens: Femap
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API: Freebody Objects - GetElements Method
The errors you're seeing are due to a mismatch with the second argument in the GetElements method. In FEMAP, when arrays are passed back via the API, almost always (check the documentation to be sure or look at what Intellisense is telling you), the variable that's passed in needs to be a...- gtae2002
- Post #2
- Forum: Siemens: Femap
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[FEMAP API] Nastran ModelCheck Options
Did you preview the output deck or check the MODELCHECK portion of the analysis manager to see if GROUNDCHECK is being written out to the deck? That would be the first place to start. It looks to me though, that you may not be committing the data to the database. Remember that when you create...- gtae2002
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- Forum: Siemens: Femap
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Quick FEMAP FEM Organization Questions
Hi Socem, rb1957 provided some great answers and I'd like to expand upon some of what they provided as well 1) Within the geometry branch on the Model Tree, we don't currently have any capability to display things like that in a hierarchical manner, however we are looking at options for that...- gtae2002
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- Forum: Siemens: Femap
