PyNASTRAN -- Beginner

[Ankush Shenoy]

Could some share links to some beginner friendly tutorials on pyNASTRAN?

[Steven Doyle]

Checkout this website https://pynastran-git.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_start/index.html#bdf

On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 12:06 PM Ankush Shenoy <anku...@gmail.com> wrote:

Could some share links to some beginner friendly tutorials on pyNASTRAN?

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[Ankush Shenoy]

Checked out the website. However some of the links to the example files linking to github seem to be missing. 

Ankush Shenoy

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[Steven Doyle]

The examples are not packaged with the software. You have to download them from GitHub

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[Ankush Shenoy]

https://github.com/SteveDoyle2/pyNastran/blob/v0.7/docs_sphinx/manual/py_docs/bdf_doc.py 

his is an example file linked to Quick Start --> BDF Overview. It shows that the file is not found.

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[Steven Doyle]

What page are you on? v0.7 was released in 2015.

The latest released bdf_demo file is found here

https://github.com/SteveDoyle2/pyNastran/blob/1.4/docs/quick_start/demo/bdf_demo.ipynb

The page should look like that.

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