Try to launch Nastran from Hypermesh

Altair Forum User

Hi, i'm trying to add a button to launch nastran directly from inside Hypermesh. This is what i wrote (that doesn't work):

 

*createbutton(5,'Nastran 2013.0',10,5,5,RED,'Open Nastran 2013.0','LaunchNastran')

 

*beginmacro(LaunchNastran)

exec cmd.exe /c start /wait C:\MSC.Software\MSC_Nastran\20130\bin\nastranw.exe

*endmacro()

 

 

Any suggestion?

Altair Forum User

in tcl, file path use '/' as in Unix and not '\' as windows, you could use file normalize. Also use '\\' instead of '\'

 

Try using:

 exec cmd.exe /c start /wait [ file normalize  'C:\\path\\to\\nastran\\bin\\nastranw.exe' ];

or just

 exec [ file normalize 'C:\\path\\to\\nastran\\bin\\nastranw.exe' ];

Hope this helps.

tinh

hi,

try using *evaltclstring to run tcl commands inside macro file

Altair Forum User

ok, thanks to your help this code actually works:

*createbutton(5,'Launch Nastran 2013.1',-5,0,10,RED,'Wanna launch Nastran?',EvalTcl,'LaunchNastran.tcl')

in userpage.cmd

 

and 

exec cmd.exe /c start /wait [file normalize \\MSC.Software\\MSC_Nastran\\20131\\bin\\nastranw.exe'];

in LaunchNastran.tcl....

I was wondering if there was a way to write everything in a single file... i tried with *evaltclstring but it doesn't work (or i wrong wrote it! /emoticons/default_smile.png' alt=':)' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' width='20' height='20'> )

 

(yes, i updated Nastran to 2013.1 in the meanwhile ahahha)
 

tinh

hi

to use single file, put *evaltclstring into a macro:

*beginmacro('LaunchNastran')

*evaltclstring('exec cmd.exe /c start /wait [file normalize ...nastranw.exe]',0)

*endmacro()

 

and point your button to this macro

*createbutton(5,'Launch Nastran 2013.1',-5,0,10,RED,'Wanna launch Nastran?','LaunchNastran','LaunchNastran.tcl')