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It is sometimes useful to create a node which is not part of the actual model but which is used to reference parts of the model. Typical applications would be one end of a spring element, one end of an RBE2 definition etc.
Point element variant 2 (NODE-GEN) should be used in this case. FEMGEN will generate a node at this point, and transfer the node (but not the element) to the NASTRAN input file. The user is then free to reference this point in FEMGEN.