Exporting Ansys to Nastran file format 1

[richg1]

Hi,

I am trying to evaluate a demo version of OptiShape an optimisation solver which uses Nastran files. However I am unable to find an obvious way of exporting from Ansys Workbench (11) to this file format.

Is this even possible and if so does anyone know how this could easily be achieved.

Thanks in advance,

Rich

 

[ansysfreak]

Hi

You can do this via FE-Model, set target on Nastran.

Garry

 

[Stringmaker]

I'm facing just the opposite problem right now. I'm trying to go from Nastran to Ansys. FE Modeler seems to do okay translating the shells in my model along with their respective properties. If you have any sort of constraint equations in your model though you may run into problems as that's my current hold up. My solution is going to be to simply write a macro to interpret the Nastran *.bdf and convert it to an Ansys input file.

 

[richg1]

Thanks AnsysFreak,

I'm fairly new to Ansys but managed to convert my simulation to a .NAS file. But unfortunately OptiShape failed to read in the file correctly. I think it was something to do with the load assignments.

Cheers,

Rich