Thanks Blas and Thomas for the responses.
To be a little more specific, I'm talking about massless beam elements and RBE elements. These are often used for connectors to represent bolted joints and the like, but sometimes if you are revising parts and changing the mesh on one side of the joint...
Would love to get a response from the legend himself!
I don't think showing free edges does find it. That's more of a 2D and 3D element free edge finding tool. For 1D elements, a list of dangling nodes would be ideal for error checking. Seems like a reasonable thing for API maybe, but I'd...
Is there a good way to reliably find all 'hanging' 1D elements? I have not found a good way within Femap. Maybe a job for API, but other competing tools have it built-in.
Different ways to accomplish this: select all nodes that are attached to only one element, select all elements that are only...
