is there a way (maybe a hidden command) to export universal files from I-DEAS 9 into the universal format of an earlier version (such as I-DEAS 8 universal format)?
To my knowledge as well as information from my support provider, the universal file in I-DEAS 9 is not compatible to I-DEAS 8. Well, crude info but this is it.
I did come across something like the export of a data format which the universal file is structured.
I have tried to find out more but without avail. The info I read was that we are supposedly able to get data structured with nodal coordinates and numbering, with element formed by the group of node numbers, which are also identified with "material" or "element type" numbering.
This should be the initial mesh data. As for the FE result, it could be possible if we know the FE data structure.