Contents

• Contents
• List of Tables
• INTRODUCTION
  • Compatibility with FEMVIEW Version 4.0
• RUNNING THE PROGRAM
  • Specifying the Required Processing Option
  • Specifying the NASTRAN Solution Number
  • Naming the Input and Output Files
  • Giving a FEMVIEW Model Name
  • Specifying how High Order Elements are to be Treated
  • Selecting the Results to be Output
  • Program Termination
• PROGRAM CAPABILITIES
  • Elements Processed
  • Generation of Element Group Numbers
  • Models with more than one Material
  • Results Processed
  • Generation of Load Case Names and Titles
  • Generation of Result Attribute Names
  • Restrictions
  • Six Figure Element and Grid Point Numbers
• Files Used
• Error Messages Generated
• Creating the NASTRAN `OUTPUT2' file
• Writing your own `ALTERS'
• NASTRAN 63 Solution Sequence `ALTERS'
  • Normal Modes SOL 3
  • Buckling SOL 5
  • Statics SOL 24
  • Direct Frequency Response SOL 26
  • Direct Transient Response SOL 27
  • Modal Frequency Response SOL 30
  • Modal Transient Response SOL 31
  • Cyclic Statics SOL 47
  • Cyclic Modes SOL48
  • Superelement Statics SOL 61
  • Alternate Superelement Statics SOL 62
  • Superelement Normal Modes SOL 63
  • Geometric Nonlinear SOL 64
  • Superelement Buckling SOL 65
  • Material Nonlinear SOL 66
  • Superelement Direct Frequency Response SOL 68
  • Superelement Direct Transient Response SOL 69
  • Superelement Modal Frequency Response SOL 71
  • Superelement Modal Transient Response SOL 72
  • Cyclic Buckling SOL 77
  • Cyclic Frequency Response SOL 78
  • Superelement Cyclic Statics SOL 81
  • Alternate Superelement Cyclic Statics SOL 82
  • Superelement Cyclic Modes SOL 83
  • Superelement Cyclic Frequency Response SOL 88
  • Superelement Statics with Inertia Relief SOL 91
  • Nonlinear Transient Response SOL 99
• NASTRAN 65 Solution Sequence ALTERS
  • Normal Modes SOL 3
  • Static and inertia relief SOL 24
  • Direct Frequency Response SOL 26
  • Direct Transient Response SOL 27
  • Modal Frequency Response SOL 30
  • Static analysis with Cyclic Symmetry SOL 47
  • Normal Modes with Multilevel SOL63
  • Static analysis with geometric nonlinearity SOL 64
  • Nonlinear Static SOL 66
  • Statics with Multilevel SOL 91
  • Nonlinear Transient Response SOL 99
• Using Nastran-to Femview with Structured Solution Sequences