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Latest Posts

  • Not Answered

    It has been requested to perform a modal analysis with modal damping. When I have performed normal modes analysis (Sol 103) in Nastran, it seems that damping is neglected. Is there a way that modal damping can be included in the modal analysis?

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By MBowitz

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    updated over 7 years ago by MBowitz

    2 replies • 31 views
  • Answered

    USER FATAL MESSAGE 3060 License Question

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By dustin.miller

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    updated over 7 years ago by dustin.miller

    4 replies • 30 views
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    Why cannot open the .BDF files in Adams Car 2017?

    Category: Adams

    By valer.sumegi

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    updated over 7 years ago by Maziar R

    1 replies • 21 views
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    Definition of material constants for compression and tension using usersubrutine hooklw

    Category: Marc

    By Kota

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    updated over 7 years ago by zhong.qin

    2 replies • 23 views
  • Not Answered

    I've been following the ADM743 FSAE tutorial and while completing WORKSHOP2/Part2 (Simulating a Full Vehicle Assembly). I get an error in the message window stating the model isn’t defined? So where and when do I need to define the model?

    Category: Adams Car

    By Woz

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    updated over 7 years ago by Rishikesh Mokashi

    21 replies • 78 views
  • Not Answered

    Correlation between FE part ARB(new ARB functionality in adams car) and mnf based ARB

    Category: Adams

    By r.pradeep

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    updated over 7 years ago by r.pradeep

    12 replies • 63 views
  • Not Answered

    Can a Python script read *.csv files and update splines?

    Category: Adams

    By Todd Gatman

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    updated over 7 years ago by Todd Gatman

    5 replies • 51 views
  • Not Answered

    How to view nastran plot (plt) files?

    Category: MSC Nastran

    By adam.narozniak

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    updated over 7 years ago by adam.narozniak

    3 replies • 24 views
  • Answered

    Importing material values

    Category: Patran

    By shaheer.iqbal

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    updated over 7 years ago by shaheer.iqbal

    5 replies • 12 views
  • Not Answered

    how do you execute several Adams View commands?

    Category: Adams

    By jopulza

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    updated over 7 years ago by jopulza

    2 replies • 27 views
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