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  1. andrew0014

    NASTRAN Float Formatting

    Thomas, I am testing with smaller amounts of data and the actual data. I've also tried asking ChatGPT but I didn't get very far with it. That was a few months ago when ChatGPT got real popular; it has since been blocked at my office. I'm going to keep searching the fortran code in nastran-95...
  2. andrew0014

    NASTRAN Float Formatting

    ThomasH, yes I'm trying to write it back out after manipulations. I'm also not using FEMAP and will be using only the standard 8-character wide fields. tim1958, Yes I've been reading through the programmer's manual but it is slow going. I was hoping somebody would stumble across this post and...
  3. andrew0014

    NASTRAN Float Formatting

    I appreciate the reply Alex. I've read the NX User Guide and have tested as far as I can with those examples. I'm working with a model with millions and millions of elements and its just not practical to keep adding to unit tests. I need to know the underlying FORTRAN logic and use it to write...
  4. andrew0014

    NASTRAN Float Formatting

    I'm trying to locate the FORTRAN file (NASTRAN 95) that contains the code used to format floating point numbers. I'm writing a reader program in another language and I want to optimize my code and unit-test it more completely. It'd be nice to know what NASTRAN is doing under-the-hood. I...

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