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  1. TG_eng

    Overall Laminate Strain in Femap

    Yes thank you to SWComposites and rb1957 for the clarification. In that case to answer the OP, you would have to envelope the laminate strain results on all the plies in the model.
  2. TG_eng

    Overall Laminate Strain in Femap

    What do you mean "overall strain"? Do you mean of all laminate elements? I was always under the assumption that on an element basis, every ply should have the same strain.
  3. TG_eng

    Fastener (beam element) Post Processing

    How would you want to calculate shear stress from the given output?
  4. TG_eng

    Center of Pressure for a pressure distribution on a curved Surface

    Did run the Nastran analysis with Force Balance request? Perhaps you could create an Interface Load - Freebody using the elements on your surface.
  5. TG_eng

    Geometry Editing Tool - Extend : How to stop edges imprinting onto faces

    If you turn off "Update Surface" from Geometry > Curve - From Surface, then in the meshing toolbox when you extend a surface to the solid, it will not imprint the intersection onn the surface of the solid. Either way you will eventually need to do a nonmanifold add before meshing. This is just...
  6. TG_eng

    FEMAP Fastener Modeling

    If you can post an imagine depicting the workflow you are accustomed to I would think we can make an API for it.
  7. TG_eng

    Femap API - label/text size

    Try this Sub Main Dim App as femap.model Set App = feFemap() Dim v As femap.View Set v = App.feView Dim vID As Long Dim dHeight As Double Dim bBold As Boolean Dim bItal As Boolean Dim sFontName As String App.feAppGetActiveView(vID) v.Get(vID)...
  8. TG_eng

    FEMAP PSD Anslysis

    If you request Nastran to print the results to the f06, does it have the laminate failure indices in it? I don't think Nastran provides this because they can't be calculated by the standard means like it would in a static solution.
  9. TG_eng

    Connectors problem

    When you select to deform the model, by default Femap scales the actually deformation 10%. This often creates confusion when using contact because the exaggerated deformation exceeds connection bodies. So when modeling contact, it's probably best to show actually deformations instead of scaled...
  10. TG_eng

    Connectors problem

    I'd switch the deformed plot to actual deformation and verify if those pins are actually crossing over the sheet metal parts.
  11. TG_eng

    Connectors problem

    Are your pins modeled with solid elements?
  12. TG_eng

    Modal testing as the most efficient way to verify FEM accuracy?

    Very interesting conversation here. I don't want to get off topic from the original post but I saw comment from @GregLocock and I'm just curious for learning purposes. @GregLocock could you elaborate on this? "One big thing you get from modal is the damping of each mode. That is crucial for...
  13. TG_eng

    Glue failure estimation

    Glue is going to be a 1:1 with displacements. If you want some of sort of compliance with the "bond" you will have to use cohesive elements. But that requires the nonlinear solvers (401/402). Perhaps some others have ways of modeling this type of thing without the advanced solvers. I am...
  14. TG_eng

    FEMAP API FOR DOCUMENTING IMAGES

    Where do you want the image to be copied to? Word, PowerPoint, Excel, some other program...? I would try using App.feFilePictureCopy2(....) or App.feFilePictureSave2(....) but then pasting or importing probably depends on where you want it to go.
  15. TG_eng

    FEMAP datasurfaces shutdown

    What type of data surface were you using? About how many data points did you have in it?
  16. TG_eng

    Different displacement with compression GAP and tension GAP

    From the QRG for PGAP it looks like the different stiffness comes from whether it's an open gap or closed gap. Femap exports compression stiffness as KA and tension stiffness as KB.
  17. TG_eng

    Different displacement with compression GAP and tension GAP

    In your model with "No Gap", did you make the nodes coincident and use a coordinate system for each of the gap element's orientation?
  18. TG_eng

    Different displacement with compression GAP and tension GAP

    Can you set the initial gap of both the compression and tension properties and then rerun. In your example model it looks like the initial gap is 0.1.
  19. TG_eng

    Bolt preload followed by pressure load

    What solution sequence are you using? Why are you using a restart?
  20. TG_eng

    Follower Force on FEMAP

    Here it is using SOL106https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=579ce965-3a59-438a-a8bd-e646434f64dd&file=Follower_Force_Example2021.1_sol106.neu

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