Upon further investigation, I've found that my log file is reporting the exact same number of degrees of freedom as I have grid points. That would seem to suggest that I only have one degree of freedom per grid point. If that is the case, I would think only in-plane conduction is taking place...
Hey guys,
I am using the NX NASTRAN non-linear transient thermal solver to analyze some metallic and composite near-firezone structures. Post-processing in FEMAP. I have everything modeled as plate elements and I'd like to keep it that way.
Does anyone know how to (if possible) display/output...
Got it to work the way I wanted but just ONE thing! So I have the Check Sum Forces running through all selected nodes and all load sets. However, I would like to add the ability to select a specific range of load sets in the same manner that I selected a specific range of nodes. However, FEMAP...
Dissecting your suggested code right now. What does the "<>" do in this portion of code?
While set1.Select(FT_NODE,False,"Select nodes") <> FE_CANCEL
set1.Reset
ReDim coord(2)
Thanks for the quick response!
I was able to get it running after my initial post. After working with someone in the office I saw how many obvious mistakes I was making! Anyway, I can get the Check Sum Forces tool to run now but not in the manner I was hoping to use it. Yes, I am simply trying...
Hey folks!
I'm attempting to use the Check Sum Forces tool in my API script. I'm a bit of rookie writing VBA but I have a little experience--but I have no experience writing VBA in the FEMAP API (as my pasted code probably shows). The goal of the script is to prompt the user to select a range...
Hey guys,
Is there any way to Thicken a set of "disjoint" faces? I have a wing structure model that is all sheet bodies which I use for doing 2D shell elements and structural analysis. However, I now need to Thicken these sheet bodies in my .prt files to their appropriate thicknesses so that I...
I figured it out the other day but you guys would probably consider it a "work-around". I imported the coordinates where I wanted to apply the loads as points into the idealized part file which then showed up in the FEM file. Selected each point and made it a mesh point. Then used the force card...
For now, I think going with the "load cards" method would be best from a learning curve standpoint (at least from how you described it). The coordinates where these loads are located already being generated in order to create certain geometry within the CAD model and they will always occur at...
Hey guys,
I have some general FEA experience using ANSYS during my undergrad. Mech Eng education but I am now trying out NX NASTRAN for the first time. Is there a quick and easy way to import a set of loads by global coordinates? I was imagining basically a text file with 4 columns and as many...
Mark,
Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I figured with my current knowledge I should be able to handle the coding I just wasn't sure what commands did the actual "communicating" between the spreadsheet and the part file. I'll take a look at the documentation you suggested and see if I can figure it...
Hey guys,
So a few months ago I posted some questions about how to get started with VB in NX. You guys gave me some great tips and even provided me with example code! I'm now familiar enough with VB where I've written a few simple scripts to run in NX and a few scripts to run in Excel as well...
Frank,
Thanks for yet another response! Your recommended changes above still results in a repeat of header1 and header2 for every point. I would like for "Control Point Coordinates (inches) --- X Y Z" to occur just once at the first line of the text file. I do still want the "Control Point "...
Frank,
Due to some unavoidable issues with using a point set, I have been forced to instead create a set of separate points that I need to extract the geometry of. I adjusted my VB code to take/collect these points. However, it is not writing the coordinates to the text file as desired. For 16...
Frank,
Thank you so much! As I suspected, I was defining my point set incorrectly it would seem (among several other minor things). I follow your procedure, how you basically call the entire set of features and then with your "For Each..." section you extract only the feature that is a point...
Hey guys,
I have a pre-defined point set in my NX part file that contains 16 points and I have it titled as "pointset1" within my part file. I am attempting to write/execute a VB code that will extract the global coordinates from those 16 points and write them to a text file for convenient...
Frank,
Had some time to work on this again today and I'm taking a crack at writing my own VB code/script (not sure what the proper terminology is) which is pasted below. First off, I did not simply copy and paste the sections of your code that I thought were applicable, but I actually thought...
Thanks for the replies guys!
3DDave, those links provided the perfect summary of what all my options are. I think for now I am going to go the route of Journaling the sequence of what I want to accomplish and then augmenting that script in VB. It is really cool how the Journal feature writes...
I am in the need of some kind of script (and thus scripting language) to execute my project but I am a bit overwhelmed by the amount of coding languages NX supports and I don't know where to start. Currently, I am simply trying to write a script that extracts coordinates of a set of points in my...
