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meshimport<br />

linearelem determines if extended node points are ignored. If the value is on all<br />

imported elements are linear. Otherwise, the order of the imported elements is<br />

determined from the order of the elements in the file. The default value is on.<br />

materialsplit determines if material data in the file is used (if available) to<br />

determine the domain partitioning of the subdomain elements. If the value is off<br />

all subdomain elements in the imported mesh belongs to the same subdomain if<br />

possible. The default value is on.<br />

report specifies if a progress window is displayed. The default value is on.<br />

The table below specifies the NASTRAN bulk data entries that are parsed in<br />

meshimport.<br />

TABLE 1-7:<br />

BULK DATA ENTRY<br />

CBAR<br />

CHEXA<br />

CORD1C<br />

CORD1R<br />

CORD1S<br />

CORD2C<br />

CORD2R<br />

CORD2S<br />

CPENTA<br />

CQUAD4<br />

CQUAD8<br />

CTETRA<br />

CTRIA3<br />

CTRIA6<br />

GRID<br />

The NASTRAN bulk data format uses reduced second order elements, that is, the<br />

center node on quadrilateral mesh faces (quadNode) and the center node of<br />

hexahedral elements (hexNode) are missing. Importing a NASTRAN mesh with<br />

second order elements, the coordinates of these missing node points are<br />

interpolated from the surrounding node points according to, quadNode =<br />

0.5*quadEdgeNodes-0.25*quadCornerNodes, where quadEdgeNodes is the sum<br />

of the coordinates of the surrounding 4 edge nodes and quadCornerNodes is the<br />

264 | CHAPTER 1: COMMAND REFERENCE

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