Chapter 1 Use of the Routines

This chapter is a guide to the use of the Database Interface Routines; a detailed description of the individual routines is given in Chapter Three. A list of the user callable routines is given in Table 1, on page 5 of this chapter.

• 1.1 Review of the FEMGV Database and Current Software
• 1.2 Overview of the Database Interface Routines
• 1.3 Initialisation of the Database Interface Routines
• 1.4 Initialisation of FEMVIEW Databases
• 1.5 Selecting User-key and Project Identifiers
• 1.6 Entering a Model Header
• 1.7 Entering a Data Set Header
• 1.8 Entering a Data Set Delimiter
• 1.9 Entering Model Geometry Data Sets
• 1.10 Entering an Assembly Definition
• 1.11 Entering a Material Properties Data Set
• 1.12 Entering an Element Set Definition Data Set
• 1.13 Entering a Transformations Data Set
• 1.14 Entering Results Data Sets
• 1.15 Entering Local Axis System Data Sets
• 1.16 Entering Gauss Point Co-ordinate Data Sets
• 1.17 Entering Element Beam-force Results Data Sets
• 1.18 Entering Loadcase Combination Definitions
• 1.19 Entering Loadcase Scan Definitions
• 1.20 Entering Nodal Constraint Definitions
• 1.21 Entering Multi-Point Constraint Definitions
• 1.22 Entering Constraint Local Axis Systems
• 1.23 Creating the FEMVIEW Display Data Sets
• 1.24 Exiting the Database Interface Routines
• 1.25 Errors and Error Recovery
• 1.26 Parallel Processing
• 1.27 Multi-Level Substructures
• 1.28 Other Facilities
• 1.29 Restrictions