{"id":2518,"date":"2009-04-03T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/No-Fooling-Around-With-NX-Nastran\/ba-p\/333898"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:20:59","slug":"no-fooling-around-with-nx-nastran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/no-fooling-around-with-nx-nastran\/","title":{"rendered":"No Fooling Around With NX Nastran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>There were some funny April Fool\u2019s jokes this week. But it was actually a serious day here. It wasn\u2019t the April Fool\u2019s worm. But we did find out that our <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/simulation\/nastran\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX Nastran<\/A> customers couldn\u2019t run the program because of an initialization error. Our development team got on it and traced the error back to legacy Nastran source code.<BR \/><BR \/>The good news is we\u2019ve resolved the problem with a software patch that is posted to our <A href=\"http:\/\/support.ugs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">customer support site<\/A>. The dev team put out all new executables for the last three full releases of NX Nastran on all hardware platforms within 24 hours. For those of you with a programming background, you know that\u2019s quite a feat.<BR \/><BR \/>Now the site is being updated with every release from 1.0 on for all hardware platforms. These are available for all NX Nastran customers, even if you\u2019re not on maintenance.<BR \/><BR \/>Customers can call our Global Technical Access Center (<A href=\"http:\/\/support.ugs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">GTAC<\/A>) with questions. Or you can ask me (but I\u2019ll just be calling them for the answer).<BR \/><BR \/>The best April Fool\u2019s joke I did see was the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.wholefoodsmarket.com\/home.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Whole Foods<\/A> website as tweeted from <A href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisbrogan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Chris Brogan<\/A>:<BR \/><BR \/><A href=\"http:\/\/siemens.pmhclients.com\/images\/uploads\/WindowsLiveWriterNoFoolingAroundWithNXNastran_E5A7image_2.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><\/A><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2009\/04\/WindowsLiveWriterNoFoolingAroundWithNXNastran_E5A7image_thumb.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2164\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2009\/04\/WindowsLiveWriterNoFoolingAroundWithNXNastran_E5A7image_thumb.png\" alt=\"WindowsLiveWriterNoFoolingAroundWithNXNastran_E5A7image_thumb\" width=\"244\" height=\"76\" \/><\/A>&nbsp;<BR \/><BR \/>Their fake front page offers \u201cAir\u201d for sale as well as a grand opening at the Antarctica store!<BR \/><\/P><DIV id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b85ef241-60ad-440d-a10c-2e7c2139083a\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;float: none;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/NX\">NX<\/A>,<A rel=\"tag nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/NX_Nastran\">NX_Nastran<\/A><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were some funny April Fool\u2019s jokes this week. But it was actually a serious day here. It wasn\u2019t the April Fool\u2019s worm. But we did find out that our NX Nastran customers couldn\u2019t run the program&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}