Importing NASTRAN FEM and combining with .gda FEM

darad
darad Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I imported a NASTRAN bar (beam) model into SimLab, as a *.dat model with a dozen bar element bodies therein.  

 

I wanted to connect this beam element model with a FEM within an assembly.gda, but the *.dat cannot be dragged directly into assembly.gda

 

However, if I create a submodel in assembly.gda, the *.dat model can be dragged into the submodel.

   

Although the beam model and FEM's are all within the assembly.gda, they cannot be connected by RBE or Join, with Warning they are not in the same model.   Apparently, there is not way to connect a NASTRAN model with FEM's within an assembly.gda.

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  • Kamalraj
    Kamalraj
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2019

    Hi, select all the bodies in the both models and click on Geometry > Model > Merge Icon. I will collect all the sele cted bodies and will place under a single model. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>image.thumb.png.3792e2a4279e54b21b6671286af95cc1.png  

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