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Import DAT file

    • February 4, 2023 at 8:52 am
      chonkiat.lee
      Subscriber

      Hi, I would like to import a FEM (dat file format) to workbench but I am not able to see after transfer to Modal analysis... what is the next step? 

      Thank you.

    • February 6, 2023 at 5:07 am
      mrife
      Ansys Employee

      Hi chonkiat.lee

      A 'dat' file is not an enforced format; so it would help to know what format the file is, and from which FEA program did it come?  Mike

    • February 6, 2023 at 1:34 pm
      chonkiat.lee
      Subscriber

      Hi Mike, it is generated for nastran based format from solidworks. Thanks.

    • February 6, 2023 at 3:58 pm
      mrife
      Ansys Employee

      Hi chonkian.lee

      Ok please review the Ansys Workbench Help; Working Through a System; Component Systems; External Model.  There are a lot of links to follow w.r.t. differing topics of this.  So also check any warnings/errors that Workbench, External Model, or Mechanical might have issued for clues.  Also which version of WB are you using?  I suspect that maybe the dat file has very little content and instead inputs some other file(s).  If so maybe the version of WB that you are using does not support that type of input file nesting.  MIke

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