External Responses

The DRESP3 Bulk Data Entry, in combination with the LOADLIB I/O Option Entry, allows for the definition of responses through user-defined external functions.

The external functions may be written in Compose Open Matrix Language (OML), Fortran, C or a Microsoft Excel workbook. The resulting libraries and files should be accessible by OptiStruct regardless of the coding language, providing that consistent function prototyping is respected, and adequate compiling and linking options are used.