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*FLEXIBLE BODY
Generate a flexible body from a substructure.

This option is used to generate a flexible body from an Abaqus/Standard substructure. Abaqus/Standard generates several flexible body types that can be used by external flexible body dynamics solvers. The generated flexible body entities are stored in the substructure .sim file and can be postprocessed to generate the input data for external flexible body dynamics solvers.

Product: Abaqus/Standard  

Type: History data

Level: Step

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Optional parameter:

TYPE

Set TYPE=ADAMS to generate flexible body entities for the Adams flexible body dynamics solver from MSC.Software Corporation.

Set TYPE=EXCITE to generate the CON6 flexible body entities for the EXCITE flexible body dynamics solver from AVL.

Set TYPE=GENERIC (default) to generate a generic flexible body. A generic flexible body can be converted into Adams, SIMPACK, or EXCITE flexible bodies by the postprocessing programs.

Set TYPE=SID to generate the Standard Input Data representation of the flexible body.

Set TYPE=SIMPACK to generate flexible body entities for the SIMPACK flexible body dynamics solver from SIMPACK AG.

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