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Latest Posts

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    How to insert a Load path?

    Category: Patran

    By s243752

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    updated over 7 years ago by s243752

    2 replies • 14 views
  • Answered

    How do I use value of one request as input for other?

    Category: Adams

    By asheshshrestha

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    updated over 7 years ago by asheshshrestha

    4 replies • 25 views
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    MSC Apex Scripting Workshop

    Category: MSC Apex

    By blaeiouk

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    updated over 7 years ago by blaeiouk

    2 replies • 18 views
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    Hello, please help me with a good example with a PATRAN DB file and an MSC Nastran file to model a tapering beam using CBEAM/PBEAM. Thanks very much in advance.

    Category: Patran

    By abhargava

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    updated over 7 years ago by Sanjay Patel

    1 replies • 13 views
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    Hi guys! Does someone of you has this article of Gear, Gupta and Leimkuhler “Automatic integration of the euler lagrange equations with constraints" J. Comp. Appl. Math.

    Category: Adams

    By alessandro.a.lurgo

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    updated over 7 years ago by Alda

    1 replies • 8 views
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    New to MSC Nastran. I'm trying to run a model but keep getting "Error executing subprogram. Reason 9errno) = 2.

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By shyam.prabhu

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    updated over 7 years ago by Sanjay Patel

    6 replies • 58 views
  • Not Answered

    Hello, Is there a way to create an auto shell mesh with different thickness? If I have a surface with non-uniform thickness, how can I create a mid surface mesh and specify different thickness to the shell element corresponding to the geom

    Category: Patran

    By shaheer.iqbal

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    updated over 7 years ago by shaheer.iqbal

    2 replies • 17 views
  • Answered

    How do I create tangent forces on two pulleys instead of using ADAMS machinery?

    Category: Adams

    By asheshshrestha

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    updated over 7 years ago by asheshshrestha

    8 replies • 34 views
  • Not Answered

    I am trying to run full vehicle model in ADAMS/Car. The closed loop simulation fails to run when chassis is flexible. The simulation run properly when chassis is made rigid. The chassis MNF includes frame and loadbody geometry.

    Category: Adams

    By Chaitanya

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    updated over 7 years ago by Jesper Slattengren

    3 replies • 8 views
  • Not Answered

    Where can I find documentation for MODULES feature?

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By pavel.kukula

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    updated over 7 years ago by Arthur Hickson

    3 replies • 23 views
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