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.