Autodesk Explicit is run by executing the file aexp_app.exe. The syntax for this along with the optional command line arguments are shown below. The aexp_app.exe should have the following lines preceding it:
cscript /nologo
This tells the script to output the information to the console. The entire line would appear as follows:
cscript /nologo “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor Nastran 2021\aexp_app.exe” -i inputfile.nas -dc
The command line arguments are defined as follows:
| [-i inputFile] | (REQUIRED) Name of an input file for the application: The input file should be a NASTRAN input file. The file extension ".nas" or “.NAS” is required. |
| [-dc] | (OPTIONAL) Data check flag: If this flag appears, the application will perform a data check run only. For a data check run, the application will run the mesh translator and the explicit module through the point where the explicit module has read all of the input file, computed the stable time step increment for the model, and checked the contact conditions. The explicit module will then stop without any time integration. |