Dear FEAP Admins,
We are encountering a problem while plotting the displacement contours in the interactive mode in FEAP. This issue is present in all the FEAP versions we have, i.e. ver 8.4, ver 8.5 and ver 8.6.
FEAP program is installed on Windows 10 (64bit) with VS 2010 Shell and Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition. To install it we followed precisely the instructions given by prof. Govindjee available here: (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QAh6QvOT6s). When building the solution no errors occur but a single WARNING in VS is given:
warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library. From what I read on stackOverflow this warning means that some libraries are compiled with wrong/different options.
The problem we are facing is best described by following the attachments. For example we run the basic simple input file Itest.txt (attachment 1) describing a 2D solid elements patch test. In the interactive mode we then plot the mesh (PLOT MESH) (see attachment 2) and contours (PLOT CONT) (see attachment 3). From the pictures you can see that there must be a problem with the interactive mode for some reason. I don't know is there a direct relationship between the warning I obtained while building the solution in VS and the plot issue I described, it is just my assumption.
I tried to resolve the warning by adding /NODEFAULTLIB:library to the Linker Command Line and the warning disappeared but the problem is still present. However, the correct path should be to find the .obj or .lib file which was built with wrong options (please see
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3007312/resolving-lnk4098-defaultlib-msvcrt-conflicts-with). I even tried to follow the alternative method for installation of FEAP on Windows available here:
http://feap.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php/Installation but without any change regarding the warning and the plots in the interactive mode. The problem is present on different systems, but all with Windows 10 (64bit) and the same compilers.
Could you please help me resolve the issue we are facing?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Sara