Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Building a model with read node and element commands

Status
Not open for further replies.

stone12345

Mechanical
Oct 7, 2008
2
Hi all,

I guess to have a problem with the connections among elemets.
I have two text files: one with node coordinates and second one with elements through these nodes. Basically I have used the read node file and read element file commands to build my model.
If now I apply loads and DOF the model does not work and I receive a message of large negaive pivot. I guess that the elements are like disconnected each others, and loads and DOF are not transfered amonf elements.

Can anyone help me?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor