Cross-vendor interop

You arrived at femorph-solver from somewhere else. Maybe MAPDL, maybe NASTRAN, maybe Abaqus, maybe LS-DYNA — three decades of FEA practice has left every shop with its own dialect of “an 8-node solid element” or “a clamped boundary condition”. This chapter is the migration bridge.

Two complementary paths:

• Reading foreign decks. femorph-solver ingests MAPDL CDB decks, NASTRAN BDF, Abaqus INP, and Altair OptiStruct FEM through dedicated readers. Pages MAPDL interop and MAPDL compatibility are the deep dives on the MAPDL format; the BDF / INP / FEM readers follow the same pattern.

• Translating terminology. Most “I just learned a different word for the same idea” friction goes away once you have a Rosetta table. Cross-vendor terminology Rosetta is exactly that — every concept, every vendor’s name for it, in one place.

The cross-vendor Cross-vendor terminology Rosetta table is unique to femorph-solver: no commercial-FEA vendor ships an authoritative Rosetta because their proprietary boundaries make it impossible. We’re agnostic; the table is part of the public docs.

• Cross-vendor terminology Rosetta
• MAPDL migration
• NASTRAN migration
• Abaqus migration
• LS-DYNA migration