1
Tutorial 2:
FEA Using Nei Nastran Editor
2
NEi Nastran Editor
•So far, we used Nastran FX for pre/post-processing
–Input file: 80-column Text file (Tutorial.NAS)
–Output file: Text file (Tutorial.OUT) or binary file (Tutorial.O2D)
•NEi Nastran Editor
–Can generate input text file directly
–Need to know formats of input text files
–Can easily modify input file for debugging errors
–Provide graphical post-processing capability
Nastran FX
Create FE model
NEi Nastran
Solve FE Eq.
Nastran FX
Analyze results
Input
file
Output
file
