F6 doesnt work

[zineddine999]

Hello i want to change the command excute i have this issue :

• CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (nastran:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException"

How can i change the code of this command ? thanks

[dmarc3]

Hi @zineddine999 , the F6 keybind that comes packaged with this extension assumes you have the nastran executable on your system path variable. I will update the README.md to state this explicitly. i.e. you need to be able to open any command window and execute nastran -v successfully. If you update your system path to include the path to your nastran executable, it should work. For reference, the path to my 2021.4 nastran executable looks like this:

C:\appl\MSC\Nastran\20214\bin

For what it's worth, you can also overwrite the F6 keybind by editing your keybindings.json file to do whatever you want. See here for vscode documentation on custom keybinds. See here for a helpful reference on vscode variables. Using this as a guide, adding something like this could do something similar and would overwrite the F6 keybind:

{
        "key": "F6",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.sendSequence",
        "args": {
          "text": "C:/PATH/TO/NASTRAN/nastran ${file}\u000D"
        }
}

[dmarc3]

@zineddine999 Can you confirm this solution works for you? If not, can you provide more information on your issue?

[zineddine999]

Oh sorry, it works. Thank you