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Script Author: Ian Rivard This script is in Beta - more use cases and testing are required. Description: The script prompts the user for Elements, coordinate systems, and load cases. It then calculates the freebody of selected RBEs at their center node, considering freebody MPC forces. The script will work through the model generating the freebodies, summarizing the RBEs and coordinate systems selected. Parsing the data over to excel for easy use. Freebodies are reported in global, but directly in the excel sheet they can be easily transformed into any coordinate system via the cosine matrix. This allows the user to explore results in any coordinate frame directly from excel, without the need to re-run the freebody results from femap or nastran. A use case can be when fasteners are spidered into a mesh with an RBE. The RBE force summary is the pin load at that location. Results are reported by node (center node of RBE), however for convenience a lookup table is also parsed to excel for MPC (element) ID and node ID. Additionally, on the coordinate system sheet, coordinate system data is parsed, including the origin, cosine matrix, translation and rotation parameters, and even a bulk deck card to re-create the coordinate system.
Use Instructions: run the tool and follow the prompts for selections.
Requirements: A solved model with appropriate results.
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