If you have ever used the standard Spider API program provided with Femap install, then you might have a clue what this program can do. In this version, the API prompts you for the two regions that you want to connect and then allows you to automatically create a user-defined beam element having a user-specified material property between the two spiders. In one clean API operation, the spiders and beam element are created. This script then automates the creation of a bolted connection in one fell swoop. The program will even remember your prior settings for multiple operations. Very sweet...
This API program will convert selected rigid elements into multiple beam elements connected the independent node from the rigid with each of its dependent nodes. Use Tools - Parameters in Femap to set the beam property to use as active and then run the API.
The focus of this program is getting a Quad Surface Mesh just right. It allows for the specification of selected mesh properties, and the capability to remesh quickly.
Creates a NX Nastran RBE2 element with all six DOF locked. The program prompts user to pick nodes around a circle or region, calculates the centroid of the nodes that you have picked and then creates a new node at this centroid as the independent node for the RBE2 element.
