Hi
I have two questions and I would appreciate your help.
1) How could I get the exact number of elements? whether in f06 file or in Patran it self?
2) I am trying to write Matlab code that could perform the following task:
Imagine I have a structure (say a plate) I would fix one side of this plate and apply a load on the other side. Now I would like to run my model for N iterations (N= Number of elements) and each time I rune the model I would like to fix one element (additional to the actual boundary condition) and save the results. Then in next run I would like to fix another element instead of the previous one and save the new results. This iteration should continue till I save the results for fixing each element.
I have been told that I can write a Matlab code that could fix each element, run Nastran and save results and so on to the next element.
My problem is that I do not know which data file I should use for such task. There are information in f06 but I can not find the elements information in f06 and I have no idea how to fix them and also how to order Nastran run the new system
Do you have any ideas that could help me?
Thanks
I have two questions and I would appreciate your help.
1) How could I get the exact number of elements? whether in f06 file or in Patran it self?
2) I am trying to write Matlab code that could perform the following task:
Imagine I have a structure (say a plate) I would fix one side of this plate and apply a load on the other side. Now I would like to run my model for N iterations (N= Number of elements) and each time I rune the model I would like to fix one element (additional to the actual boundary condition) and save the results. Then in next run I would like to fix another element instead of the previous one and save the new results. This iteration should continue till I save the results for fixing each element.
I have been told that I can write a Matlab code that could fix each element, run Nastran and save results and so on to the next element.
My problem is that I do not know which data file I should use for such task. There are information in f06 but I can not find the elements information in f06 and I have no idea how to fix them and also how to order Nastran run the new system
Do you have any ideas that could help me?
Thanks