NASTRAN Output Files

When the run button on tthe NASTRAN solver is clicked, many files are created in the result folder.

f06 and f04 are main files. These files can be used for understand the process status, error or some results query. f06, f04 log, pch files can be opened by text editor softwares. The other files are binary files and not easy to open by text editor.

Dball and master files are used for resubmit the job. Sometimes these files have huge sized dependent on FEM model resolution.

For example “result.bdf” file is solved and the files are listed;

result.dat	Input file
result.f06	Element forces, displacement, frequencies.... results files can be listed in f06
result.f04	It contains ram usage, disk space
result.log	Summary of the solver precess.
result.DBALL	Contains input file,matrix files for solving the model. Generally these files are huge files compared the input files.
result.MASTER	Sistem üzerindeki dosyaların, bulunduğu klasörlerin adlarını içerir.
result.IFPDAT	contains buld data for resubmitting job
result.plt	Plot files
result.pch	Specified results files are listed.
result.op2 veya result.xdb	Visualization files for post process.
result.sts	Nonlinear contact analysis parameters
other files	Some files are created for analysis when the process is finished files are deleted.