[Gmsh] Import Nastran files

Christophe Geuzaine cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Fri Nov 28 19:55:56 CET 2008


bernddude wrote:
> Hi i am new at FEM mesh generation, so i apologize for a dumb question 
> upfront .
> i am working with collegues of mine in Japan who use Nastran for FEM 
> mesh generation
> and it does sound from the user manual as if Nastran files could be 
> imported , but i could
> not find how. i did try to load the files but this did not work
> 

Works over here: just make sure your file has a ".nas" or ".bdf" extension.

> many thanks in advance for your help
> 
> p.s. below is a simple example Nastra output file i tried to load (just 
> for reference)
> 
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