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How can extract the mass, stiffness and structural damping matrices from a .bdf file?

Hi,
 
I need to extract the mass, stiffness and damping structural matrices from a .bdf files. Normally I just needed to add the following lines after BEGIN BULK in the .bdf file to get that:
 
"PARAM,EXTOUT,DMIGPCH"
"PARAM,COUPMASS,1"
 
Unfortunately when I'm trying to get that, Nastran is not able to create the .pch file where all information related to the matrices are stored.
 
So, How can I solve this problem? Is needed to add some addicional information inside to the .bdf file?
 
Thank you for your support
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