Is the Exo-6 report utility broken with Nastran 2018?

I have found the MSC Exo-6 report utility to be very helpful over the last several years since it came out in 2012. It still seems to work fine with all versions up to and including 2017. But it crashes when I try to open an f06 file from version 2018. I wonder what in the 2018 f06 file could have broken this very valuable tool.

Also, I have been using your other report writer called F06_Reader that is distributed with the 2017 version. That tool works fine for the 2017 version but always seems to crash with the 2018 version.

Do you have any reporting tool that works with version 2018?

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0 Don.Graff over 6 years ago

I am glad you asked that question... I played around with this, and was having it work sometimes and not others... I asked development and they isolated the problem. It is actually in the .log file. Here is a 'working' .log last line:

MSC Nastran finished Fri May 24 09:28:22 EDT 2019

Here is the failing v2018.2 last line:

MSC Nastran finished c:\msc.software\msc_nastran\20182\msc20182\win64i8\mscdate

The workaround is to delete this last line in the .log file entirely and then the f06 reader seems to work! I'll update the article discussing this.
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0 Don.Graff over 6 years ago

I am glad you asked that question... I played around with this, and was having it work sometimes and not others... I asked development and they isolated the problem. It is actually in the .log file. Here is a 'working' .log last line:

MSC Nastran finished Fri May 24 09:28:22 EDT 2019

Here is the failing v2018.2 last line:

MSC Nastran finished c:\msc.software\msc_nastran\20182\msc20182\win64i8\mscdate

The workaround is to delete this last line in the .log file entirely and then the f06 reader seems to work! I'll update the article discussing this.
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