What does "DBCMSG WARNING MESSAGE 36 FROM SUBROUTINE CSTM " mean?

Can anyone tell me what this warning message is telling me? I've started getting it in my runs but I can't find any information s to what it means. It appears multiple times in the .f06 file.

Thanks

*** USER WARNING MESSAGE 6064 (DBC)

*** DBCMSG WARNING MESSAGE 36 FROM SUBROUTINE CSTM

COORDINATE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION ************ HAS BEEN UPDATED.

0 Don.Graff over 7 years ago

There is an Article on this in SimCompanion- here is the link:

simcompanion.mscsoftware.com/.../index

I suspect one of the possible issues will match your situation!

In case you have trouble with the link, here is the main information:

The most common reason for this message is that an XDB with the same name previously existed in the directory when the job was run… it is always best to make sure all previous output files are removed when rerunning a job.

BUT, if you don't have any existing XDBs from a previous run in the same directory, this is likely due to a known bug. According to the report, the bug outputs these messages when in mode=i8 (but not mode=i4).

Workarounds include using OP2 or simply ignoring the messages. If you want to turn off the message, you can add PARAM,DBCDIAG,128 to your input file. It is always recommended to first run without turning these messages off to make sure there aren't any others messages that might be important to see. For subsequent runs, it might be useful to use this parameter to avoid printing these messages.

Note: MODE is a Nastran keyword that triggers i4 or i8 versions of the Nastran executable (i8 allows for more RAM utilization), Nastran v2017 onward only has MODE=i8. See the Installation and Operations Guide for details about the MODE keyword.
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0 bhoomi.gadhia over 7 years ago

Hi Daniel,

What version of Nastran are you using and are you requesting xdb file output with mode=i8?

If so, then this is a bug and the workaround is to use OP2 output.

Regards,

Bhoomi Gadhia

MSC Technical Support.
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0 daniel.scott over 7 years ago

Thanks for the fast and helpful replies.

I'm running NASTRAN 2014.0. I do not have any existing xdb's in the directory. I ran the model again requesting OP2 instead of XDB and the warning message disappeared. I'll take this to mean it is just a bug and nothing to worry about.

Thanks very much.
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