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Chapter III.1
Nastran Preferences

Most methods peculiar to the post-processing of Nastran finite element Results and models are defined in class “NastranDb” that inherits the “DataBase” class. This class is described in section III.1.1. A list of the methods defined in “NastranDb” class is given in Table III.1.1.

Table III.1.1: The different methods that have been defined in “NastranDb” class. See also the methods defined in generic DataBase class (Table I.1.1). Methods marked with “(s)” are singleton methods.
(FeResPost list of classes is given in Table 1 page 27.)
(See also methods in generic DataBase class.)
Method Name DescriptionExample
Creation and initialization methods
new (s) III.1.1 IV.2.2.1
initialize III.1.1
Reading model or Results
readBdf III.1.1.1 IV.2.2.1
readOp2 III.1.1.2, III.1.1.8 IV.2.4.1
readOp2FilteredResults III.1.1.8 IV.2.4.1
readOp22H III.1.1.2, III.1.1.8
readOp2FilteredResults2H III.1.1.8
getXdbLcNames (s) III.1.1.9
getXdbScNames (s) III.1.1.9
getXdbResNames (s) III.1.1.9
getXdbLcScNames (s) III.1.1.9
getXdbLcScResNames (s) III.1.1.9 IV.2.4.6
getXdbLcInfos (s) III.1.1.9 IV.2.4.6
printXdbDictionnary (s) III.1.1.9
readXdb III.1.1.9 IV.2.4.6
readXdb2H III.1.1.9
XDB attachments
attachXdb III.1.1.10
detachXdb III.1.1.10
removeAllAttachments III.1.1.10
getNbrAttachments III.1.1.10
getAttachmentNames III.1.1.10
checkAttachmentExists III.1.1.10
getAttachmentWordsSize III.1.1.10 IV.2.8
getAttachmentSwapEndianness III.1.1.10 IV.2.8
getAttachmentLcInfos III.1.1.10
getAttachmentNbrLoadCases III.1.1.10
getAttachmentLcNames III.1.1.10
getAttachmentLcScNames III.1.1.10
getAttachmentLcScResNames III.1.1.10
getAttachmentNbrSubCases III.1.1.10
getAttachmentScNames III.1.1.10
getAttachmentNbrResults III.1.1.10
getAttachmentResIds III.1.1.10
getAttachmentResNames III.1.1.10
getAttachmentResults III.1.1.10
importAttachmentResults III.1.1.10
getAttachmentResultsCombili III.1.1.10
getAttachmentDesVarHistory III.1.1.10 IV.2.7
getAttachmentConstrDefinitions III.1.1.10 IV.2.7
getAttachmentConstrHistory III.1.1.10 IV.2.7
getAttachmentObjectiveHistory III.1.1.10 IV.2.7
getAttachmentDesRespHistory III.1.1.10
setStorageBufferMaxCapacity (s) III.1.1.10
getStorageBufferMaxCapacity (s) III.1.1.10
getAttachmentElementExtId III.1.1.10.7
getAttachmentNodeInfo III.1.1.10.7
getAttachmentDictKeys III.1.1.10.7
getAttachmentDictionnary III.1.1.10.7
each_xdbRaw III.1.1.10.7 IV.2.8
each_xdbBinRaw III.1.1.10.7 IV.2.8
binDataToValues (s) III.1.1.10.7 IV.2.8
HDF attachments. (See also section I.6.11.)
readHdf III.1.1.11
readHdf2H III.1.1.11
attachHdf III.1.1.11 IV.2.9
detachHdf III.1.1.11
removeAllHdfAttachments III.1.1.11
getNbrHdfAttachments III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentNames III.1.1.11
checkHdfAttachmentExists III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentLcInfos III.1.1.11 IV.2.9
getHdfAttachmentNbrLoadCases III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentLcNames III.1.1.11 IV.2.9
getHdfAttachmentLcScNames III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentLcScResNames III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentNbrSubCases III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentScNames III.1.1.11 IV.2.9
getHdfAttachmentNbrResults III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentResIds III.1.1.11
getHdfAttachmentResNames III.1.1.11 IV.2.9
getHdfAttachmentResults III.1.1.11
readHdfAttachmentResults III.1.1.11 IV.2.9
getHdfAttachmentDataSets III.1.1.11 IV.2.10
getHdfAttachmentCompoundMemberNames III.1.1.11 IV.2.10
getHdfAttachmentDataSetNbrItems III.1.1.11 IV.2.10
each_hdfAttachmentNasSetItem III.1.1.11 IV.2.10
getHdfAttachmentDataSet III.1.1.11 IV.2.10
Enabling/Disabling bulk cards or Results
enableBulkCards (s) III.1.1.8
disableBulkCards (s) III.1.1.8
getBulkCardsEnableInfos (s) III.1.1.8
enableOp2ResElems (s) III.1.1.8
disableOp2ResElems (s) III.1.1.8
getOp2ResElemsEnableInfos (s) III.1.1.8
enableXdbTables (s) III.1.1.9
disableXdbTables (s) III.1.1.9
getXdbTablesEnableInfos (s) III.1.1.9
Coordinate system methods
getCoordSysCopy III.1.1.6
addCoordSys III.1.1.6
makeAllCoordSysWrt0 III.1.1.6
Group manipulation methods
getNodesAssociatedToElements III.1.1.7 IV.2.5.3
getNodesAssociatedToRbes III.1.1.7
getElementsAssociatedToNodes III.1.1.7 IV.2.5.3
getRbesAssociatedToNodes III.1.1.7
getElementsAssociatedToMaterials III.1.1.7
getElementsAssociatedToPlies III.1.1.7
getElementsAssociatedToProperties III.1.1.7
Iterators
each_coordSysId III.1.1.13
each_elemId III.1.1.13 IV.2.3
each_nodeId III.1.1.13
each_rbeId III.1.1.13
each_mpcId III.1.1.13
each_materialId III.1.1.13
each_propertyId III.1.1.13
each_nodeOfElement III.1.1.13 IV.2.3
each_cornerNodeOfElement III.1.1.13
each_xdbRaw III.1.1.10.7 IV.2.8
each_xdbBinRaw III.1.1.10.7 IV.2.8
each_bdfCard (s) III.1.1.13
each_hdfAttachmentNasSetItem III.1.1.11 IV.2.2
Write methods
writeBdfLines III.1.1.4
writeNastranCard (s) III.1.1.4 IV.2.5.1
writeNastranCards (s) III.1.1.4 IV.2.5.1
writeNastranCardToVectStr (s) III.1.1.4
writeNastranCardsToVectStr (s) III.1.1.4 IV.2.10
Other methods (access to FEM definition and FEM modification)
getMpcNodes III.1.1.14
getMpcDependentNodes III.1.1.14
getMpcIndependentNodes III.1.1.14
getRbeNodes III.1.1.14
getRbeDependentNodes III.1.1.14
getRbeIndependentNodes III.1.1.14
getElementPropertyId III.1.1.14
getNodeRcId III.1.1.14
getNodeAcId III.1.1.14
getNodeCoords III.1.1.14
fillCard III.1.1.5 IV.2.2, IV.2.3 and IX.1.3
fillCards III.1.1.5
insertCard III.1.1.5
insertCards III.1.1.5 IV.2.2
Superelements
SEID III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
RefCounter III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
NbrSuperElements III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
getMaster III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
getSuperElementIdFromPos III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
getSuperElementFromId III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
getSuperElementFromPos III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
removeResultsAllSE III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
removeAllResultsAllSE III.1.1.3 IV.2.11
Other attributes
NbrRbes III.1.1.15
NbrMpcs III.1.1.15
III.1.1 “NastranDb” class
III.1.1.1 Reading a BDF
III.1.1.2 “OP2” methods for reading a FEM
III.1.1.3 Superelements
III.1.1.4 Writing Bulk lines
III.1.1.5 Accessing FEM information or modifying the FEM
III.1.1.6 “CoordSys” methods
III.1.1.7 Construction of Groups by associations
III.1.1.8 “OP2” methods for reading Results
III.1.1.9 “XDB” methods for extracting XDB information
III.1.1.10 Attaching “XDB” files to a Nastran DataBase
III.1.1.11 Attaching “HDF” files to a Nastran DataBase
III.1.1.12 GMSH outputs
III.1.1.13 Iterators
III.1.1.14 Other methods
III.1.1.15 Attributes
III.1.2 Nastran Result characteristics
III.1.2.1 General Results
III.1.2.2 Composite Results
III.1.3 Interaction with CLA classes