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Latest Posts

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    How to assign the 1D cross-section for different element property ?

    Category: MSC Apex

    By thanga pandiyan

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    updated over 1 year ago by thanga pandiyan

    4 replies • 20 views
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    How to turn off the auto highlighting, while hovering the mouse in GUI?

    Category: MSC Apex

    By thanga pandiyan

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    updated over 1 year ago by thanga pandiyan

    2 replies • 18 views
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    What's the significance difference between the beam - Standard and Numeric shape type

    Category: MSC Apex

    By thanga pandiyan

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    updated over 1 year ago by thanga pandiyan

    2 replies • 14 views
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    Import parasolid in different coordinate system?

    Category: Patran

    By dustin.miller

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    updated over 1 year ago by edwin.goei

    1 replies • 17 views
  • Answered

    Delete matrix values with python

    Category: Adams

    By Todd Gatman

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    updated over 1 year ago by Todd Gatman

    2 replies • 12 views
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    Is there a way to add a 1d beam/bar element geometry cross section using an igs/step/xt file ?

    Category: MSC Apex

    By thanga pandiyan

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    updated over 1 year ago by rohit.belsare

    3 replies • 14 views
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    Time domain of Gear contact stiffness

    Category: Adams

    By shihao.li

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    updated over 1 year ago by Jan Sotnik

    1 replies • 9 views
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    can we give two constitutive equations to the same material in the forging?

    Category: Simufact

    By asam

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    updated over 2 years ago by asam

    4 replies • 13 views
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    PCL; What is function to get list of CIDs associated to nodes?

    Category: Patran

    By adam.narozniak

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    updated over 2 years ago by edwin.goei

    1 replies • 17 views
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    I am working with the 2018 version of Marc. Is it possible to create and mesh a 3D model using Python programming in Marc? Is it possible to load a step file with the model instead of defining the model in Python?

    Category: Marc

    By siring

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    updated over 2 years ago by siring

    5 replies • 8 views
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