Hi everyone!! I ask for help because I should reproduce a traction test on Patran / Nastran, to verify that the sigma / epsilon curve I entered as Field is actually the one reproduced by the simulator, I would like to verify it through a graph of the…
This is in response to Tech Article ID KB8012044. I have some questions in order to understand this.
What does the station distances represents?
Do they need to match with my Grid Location?
Suppose I have cBeam ( ONE bar2 element…
Regarding the patran tool that creates the contact bodies and contact pair, I can also see it in Patran 2017.0.2.
The webinar mentions using Patran 2018, does it mean I can not use it in patran 2017 even though it is available ?
I want to perform static analysis in MSC PATRAN using loads obtained from CFD done in ANSYS-FLUENT. I want to know:
1) Does PATRAN supports direct import of loads externally (in my case from ANSYS-FLUENT)? If yes how to do it efficiently?
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is there a way in Patran to relocate the complete FEM (nodes, CIDs etc.) without having to define the translation/rotation vector?
I have a bdf with my FEM and I have to place it in the correct position with respect to the main…
Hello I ran two models, one with contact and one without contact.
As part of model checking i check the epsilon value (round off error ). I noticed that the model with contacts does not produces epsilon value.
Can any one explain why is…
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I am trying to find a way how I can read a excel file into patran for my material creation.
Lets see in my excel file I have material values for Al 6061 (young's modulus, density and poisson's ratio) . how can I read them into…
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I am trying to get strain energy output for entire model. But I noticed than no strain energy output is generated for some elements
I noticed this in .f06 file.
THERE ARE 56149 TETRA ELEMENTS HAVING STRAIN ENERGY WHICH IS LESS THAN…
I tried Geometry -> Show -> Coord -> Attributes but that output is only about the coordinate itself, I don't see how to ask for another frame. Also the output is not very useful, even dumping the information window to a spreadsheet is cumbersome. The…
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I have a model that I am checking for any errors. I ran a free-free modal analysis. Instead of getting 6 rigid body modes (zero), I am getting the first 3 modes as 0 while, the other 3 (rotational) are not perfectly zero. It has a value of…
1) Is it correct to use 1 element and BAR2 topology?
2) I am giving it PBUSH Element type property and defining my 6 spring constant to determine the stiffness of the cylindrical joint. Is it a correct approach?
3) Since, it will be cylinder…
I am not planning to model the complete mechanism, but rather model quarter and apply some cyclic symmetry conditions. I have not done this in Patran/Nastran. Is there any reference that can come in handy in how to do it and how to extract the results…
Unable to completely uninstall Patran 2012. When we try to re-install, we get the following error: MSC_RegisterProduct_ExtraInfo_Get: couldn't retrieve Patran. How do we get around this?
I want to calculate shear flows in wing box which requires modelling thin-walled structures. I have tried to model thin-walled beam using 2D shell elements but it didn't give the desired results (as expected).
I want to know if:
MSC PATRAN…
I am trying to export an MPEG animation from PATRAN for presentation purposes. Regardless of how many result frames I request, it is only recording and saving half of the frames.
1) Can I directly read the files in patran like an include file? The reason behind is this that I during my program I can add more material to the file and I can save this file separately without merging it with the full model
2) Can I directly read…
Is there a feature in patran, like Femap, that you can ask the program to highlight certain entities? I use this Femap feature a lot to trouble shoot my model, but I can't find it in Patran. Thanks
How do I list the attributes of one selected element (property, material, thickness)? Is there anything like "List" in Femap that you can use to enquire attributes of an entity?
I have around 100 Result cases and need to have a list of them in an excel file. How do I create a list of all my results to copy in excel or a text editor
I have a model that uses a WTMASS of 1 ,but want to rescale all densisites and NSM in the model to use a WTMASS of 0.00259 to integrate with other models. I found a mass properties management menu but it appears to add NSM. I would like to scale existing…
