@SteveMills:
"Entity Info in FEMAP is almost useless. It displays the nearest element continuously. There does not appear to be a way to lock it so that the info can be copied or evaluated. PATRAN in contrast has a nice method to query an element and places it into a table for easy comparison...
Steve,
For references to external programs, you will need to set that up one time per API program. So right click in the Femap API window with that program showing, and choose "References...". Scroll down to Microsoft Excel, click the check box, and then select OK. Run the program again and...
That's fairly easy to do with a FEMAP API program. I have one already that reads 4 coordinate points per line and creates a surface from them. The file would just be a CSV file exported from Excel or similar program. It would be easy to change it to just create a node. Let me know if you...
@dwallace1971, The next Femap API (301) class coming up in Huntsville is on Sept. 18, 19, 20, 2013. Feel free to use the contact links on our website if you want more information.
@dwallace1971, There are upcoming Femap API (301) classes coming up in Huntsville. They should be posted on our website shortly, and I'll let you know as soon as the dates are available.
Below is the code that will do this. This just exports the length of all elements in the model. You can use the .select method if you want to select only certain elements. Note for anything but line elements (Quads, etc.) the length will be zero.
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