This API program allows the user to select a surface, and then adds any elements attached to this surface to the active group.
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UPDATE DEC. 18, 2019: Starting with Femap v2020.1, there have been language formatting changes regarding output sets. We are in the process of updating our API's to be compatible with v2020.1. Please keep this in mind when using previously constructed APIs with Femap v2020.1.
Simcenter Femap APIs - Automation Programs
Line and Point Deleter
Often it is desirable to delete all unassociated curves and points from a model after geometry modifications. This API deletes all such unassociated curves and points.
Group Include Solid Ent & Mesh
This API adds all related entities (surfaces, curves, points, elements and nodes) of solids in a group, to that group. This is useful to ensure all necessary entities are in your group.
Make New Nodes in Femap
This MS Excel 2007 spreadsheet has a push button that will take data from the spreadsheet and make new Nodes in Femap. The program will change node ID's from the spreadsheet if they already exist in you Femap document and update your spreadsheet with the new ID numbers.
Group Nodes on Surface
This API program allows the user to select a surface, and then creates a new group and adds the nodes attached to the selected surface to it.
Merge-Move Nodes
This API is used to move and/or merge two selected nodes. The API either moves the selected nodes to a calculated centroid, or moves and merges them to the nodal coordinates of the second selected node.
Import Nodal Coordinates to Excel
This MS Excel 2007 spreadsheet has a push button that will prompt an entity selection box (for nodes) in the active session of Femap. Select the desired nodes, click OK and the IDs and coordinates will be imported to the Excel spreadsheet automatically.
Modes Writer
After an eigenvalue analysis has been run, this script can be run to export the modal frequencies to a text file.
Learn to create your own APIs
FEMAP APIs are an Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) based programming interface for FEMAP that can automate a lot of tedious tasks. And they aren't as difficult to create as you think. Our PowerPoint presentation walks you through the how's and why's of creating your own APIs.
Move Mesh and Solids
This is simply a combination of Modify > Move By > Solid and Modify > Move By > Mesh. This API will prompt the user to select solids and a vector to move along. It automatically selects associated hex, tet and plate mesh. It moves the solids and the mesh together.