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Convert CBAR to CBEAM

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adamas

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Hello

I have a Nastran model composed of CBAR elements and, since I have to run non linear analysis and apparently the CBAR formulation does not take into account geometric nonlinearities, I would like to convert all the CBAR to CBEAM automatically. Is there a way in Femap to do this?

Thank you
 
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