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Sierra/SD – User’s Guide for NasGen – 5.20

Beale, Dagny M.; Bunting, Gregory; Day, David M.; Dohrmann, Clark R.; Lindsay, Payton; Pepe, Justin; Plews, Julia A.

NasGen provides a path for migration of structural models from Nastran bulk data format (BDF) into both an Exodus mesh file and an ASCII input file for Sierra Structural Dynamics (Salinas) and Solid Mechanics (Adagio). Many tools at Sandia National Labs (SNL) use the Exodus format. This document describes capabilities and limitations of the NasGen translation software.