Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: Abaqus now supports the translation of substructures from an Abaqus file in .sim format to NASTRAN bulk data file format. This enhancement enables you to use Abaqus substructures in a NASTRAN simulation.
Description: The abaqus tonastran execution procedure now enables you to translate Abaqus substructure data in a file in .sim format. If you include the new command line option substructure when you perform the translation, Abaqus searches the .sim file you specify for substructure data and translates the data to NASTRAN bulk data file format.
Reference: