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Exporting Nastran data from Fusion 360

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:19:31 GMT

Hi Autodesk Community!

I am a student of Mechatronics and I am working on my project – software improving CAM method of Fused Filament Fabrication based on FEM analyses. I would like to use Nastran output data, which is used in Fusion 360 to plot Results, to make my own calculation in my software. Other words, I need to export all numeric data of all mesh nodes calculated in Nastran.

I have found only short file with basics information. It named ‘Solver Output’ and can be exported do *.out file. But I need information of all nodes in FEM, not only of a few.

Is there any way to export such data? Maybe there is some tricky way to find get it like some *.f06 file in ‘AppData\Local\Autodesk\webdeploy\...’

Best regards,
Mikowhy

Re: Exporting Nastran data from Fusion 360

I_Forge_KC — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:06:05 GMT

Unfortunately, even if you were to dig out one of the files, you'd be pressed to extract the data you need.

A very similar post was created the other day and got an official response in it...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/accessing-simulation-data/td-p/7546910

Re: Exporting Nastran data from Fusion 360

mcmillr — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:21:12 GMT

Mikowhy, your best option would be to get a educational license of Inventor Nastran In-CAD and use that to run your simulations. That products supports simulation result export.

https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/nastran-in-cad

You of course also need Inventor installed with an educational license first.

Hope this helps.

Re: Exporting Nastran data from Fusion 360

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:25:24 GMT

Hi I_Forge_KC

Thank you for suggestions and redirecting. I have tried every temp file with no result. This data is hidden very well! 🙂

Regards,
Mikowhy

Re: Exporting Nastran data from Fusion 360

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:34:06 GMT

Rob,

It is really good solution to change environment to get (recalculate) nodal data. I will try to get educational version of Inventor, but if it took too much time (authorization or sth) I will use NX Nastran software instead. Thank you for your reply, it was comprehensive!

Regards,
Mikowhy