How can I get NASTRAN and/or Abaqus from exodus?
The Cubit team provides some translators, e.g. exoaba for abaqus translations. Ask the cubit team for help in getting those. Also: If you are after a full fledged setup of nastran and abaqus jobs, you might want to consider moving you exodus model generated in cubit to patran if you use that code. Sandia sponsors an exodus preference for patran which permits both import and export of exodus models. So what you can do is have a patran template that has the nastran, abaqus, and exodus preferences loaded into it. Then activate the exodus preference, read in your exodus model, then switch the patran analysis preference to either nastran or abaqus as appropriate. Of course, there is no direct sideset, node set, or block id translation to either nastran or abaqus, but you can use patran groups to capture the appropriate entities and then use the nastran/abaqus bc creation and property definitions. If you want the Exodus preference, contact Ken Walker at MSC Software (ken.walker@mscsoftware.c
