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Physical System Simulation

Latest Posts

  • Not Answered

    Error extracting the mass, stiffness and structural damping matrices from a .bdf file

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By kenny.fernando.conto

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    updated over 6 years ago by Don.Graff

    1 replies • 8 views
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    Error in "Renunber Entities" and amount of nodes

    Category: MSC Apex

    By kenny.fernando.conto

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    updated over 6 years ago by kenny.fernando.conto

    3 replies • 6 views
  • Not Answered

    Timing belt will "break" with a pretension of 3000 N

    Category: Adams

    By felixkonstantin.schymski

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    updated over 6 years ago by Jesper Slattengren

    1 replies • 5 views
  • Not Answered

    I have a modal analysis of a large system that I need to stop temporarily while higher priority analysis jobs can be run. Aside from a restart are there any options in "pausing" an analysis?

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By derek.lewis

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    updated over 6 years ago by derek.lewis

    2 replies • 15 views
  • Not Answered

    Wrong pdf in simcopmanion

    Category: Adams

    By jozef.bucha

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    updated over 6 years ago by SC202511202828

    3 replies • 16 views
  • Not Answered

    Hello, is there a way to use Linear spline instead of AKIMA or CUBIC splines because whenever i use linear spline with 5 data points ADAMS converted this data by doing extrapolation.

    Category: Adams

    By radhakrishnaiah.bathina

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    updated over 6 years ago by radhakrishnaiah.bathina

    2 replies • 14 views
  • Not Answered

    Why an obj file imported in View is not visible unless any other command is given? In my case it is visible only when I run one simulation.

    Category: Adams

    By hkalupuk

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    updated over 6 years ago by MK202610123211

    8 replies • 44 views
  • Not Answered

    How to model Automatic Transmission in ACar?

    Category: Adams

    By hkalupuk

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    updated over 6 years ago by Jesper Slattengren

    3 replies • 29 views
  • Not Answered

    Can we save a macro created in View in adm or acf other than bin file?

    Category: Adams

    By hkalupuk

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    updated over 6 years ago by Jesper Slattengren

    6 replies • 68 views
  • Not Answered

    Is there a way in Patran to align the first edge of a quad or tri element (direction of node 1 to 2) and thus the element coordinate system with a user defined coordinate system X axis?

    Category: Patran

    By jason.melonas

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    updated over 6 years ago by LJuillen

    3 replies • 26 views
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