Siemens PLM is pleased to announce the availability of this fix for all versions of NX Nastran from 1.0 to 6.1 on all hardware platforms. These releases are being made available to all of our customers whether on maintenance or not.
Software Patch
Siemens PLM has resolved the problem with a date check routine in NX Nastran. A software patch on the analysis executable has been released that changes a binary integer value and in effect changes the date check algorithm to allow the program initialization to proceed. The benefit of this approach is that there is no change in the compute engine, memory map, or any other portion of the application that would affect results from NX Nastran.
Background on Problem
On April 1, 2009, users trying to run NX Nastran found that it stopped with an NSINIT Error 70 in the log file. The problem is related to a date check, carried out in an initialization routine that is run at startup of NX Nastran. As this issue can be traced back to the source code of early versions of Nastran, this error is also being reported by other competitive Nastran products.
Software patches that correct the date check problem in NX Nastran is now available. Currently patches are available for NX Nastran 6.1, 6.0, 6.0MP1, 6.0MP2, 5.1, 5.0, 5MP1, 4.1, 4.0, 3.0, 3.0MP1, 2.0, 2.0mp1 and 1.0. The downloads are available from the Siemens PLM FTP server.
NX comes with an integrated NX Nastran and is also affected by the NX Nastran date issue noted above.
A patch for NX 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 is available.
A patch for NX 6.0.2 is available.
FEMAP comes with an integrated NX Nastran and is also affected by the NX Nastran date issue noted above.
FEMAP 10.0.2 has been patched to correct the problem.
FEMAP 9.3.1 has been patched to correct the problem.
FEMAP 9.2 has been patched to correct the problem.
FEMAP 9.1 has been patched to correct the problem.
FEMAP 9.0 has been patched to correct the problem.
FEMAP 8.3 has been patched to correct the problem.
Solid Edge FEMAP Express comes with an integrated NX Nastran and is also affected by the NX Nastran date issue noted above.
The patch for Solid Edge ST FEMAP Express can be downloaded from http://ftp.ugs.com/solid_edge/ST/SEFemapExpressPatch/.
The patch for Solid Edge V20 FEMAP Express can be downloaded from http://ftp.ugs.com/solid_edge/ver20/SEFemapExpressPatch/.
The patch for Solid Edge V19 FEMAP Express can be downloaded from http://ftp.ugs.com/solid_edge/ver19/SEFemapExpressPatch/.
The patch for Solid Edge V18 FEMAP Express can be downloaded from http://ftp.ugs.com/solid_edge/ver18/SEFemapExpressPatch/.
NX Nastran users no longer under maintenance can go here to access the patches.
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