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Patran

The Industrys leading nite elementmodeling environment

Capabilities

Intuitive graphical interace with direct

access o CAD geometry with automatic/

interactive eature recognition.

Integration with MSC.Sotwares analysis

solvers and third-party solvers

Robust automatic surace and solid mesh

generation with advanced surace mesh-

on-mesh capability.

Create connectors and bolts with pre-loads

easily using the new Bolt Tool.

Full 3D general contact available or

nonlinear analyses.

Support or MSC Nastrans Design

Optimization and Topology Optimization.

Support or MSC Nastrans Superelements

Support or Marcs Coupled Analyses

Comprehensive results post-processing.

Results standardization through

results templates.

Customization through Patran Command

Language (PCL).

Benefts

Increase productivity o your designand development process

Reduce development costs through

increased use o simulation technologies

Improve productivity and accuracy with

multidiscipline analysis and optimization

OverviewPatran 2007r1 is the most comprehensive pre- and post-processing environment

or FEA analysis and helps engineers virtually conceptualize, develop and test

product designs. Used by the worlds leading manuacturing companies as

their standard tool or the creation and analysis o simulation models, Patran

links design, analysis, and results evaluation in a single environment.

For companies wanting to use FEA analysis to reduce the time and cost o the

product development process through the increased use o simulation, Patran is the

best solution or nite element modeling and results visualization and processing. By

enabling engineers to access one o the industrys leading analysis programs rom

MSC.Sotware, Patran can help organizations reduce the cost and conusion

o maintaining multiple pre- and post-processing tools in dierent parts

o the organization and get better products to market, aster.

Through the seamless integration o CAD geometry, pre- and post-processing capabilities

and the ability to perorm sophisticated simulations on virtual parts, assemblies and

structures, Patran is a key part o the design process or companies who rely on ast

time to market and extraordinary product quality to drive market share and prots.

Patran enables engineers to directly import CAD geometry rom whichever CAD program

an engineer chooses, dene loads, boundary conditions, and material properties, perorm

dierent simulations under dierent conditions, visualize the results, and ultimately

better understand the relationship between design decisions and product perormance

characteristics such as stress, strain, vibration, heat transer and many more.

In addition, Patrans intuitive graphical interace is built to be ully customizable to your

organizations unique engineering processes. With Patran Control Language (PCL), engineerscan supplement the powerul modeling and analysis capabilities with their own, customized

Engineering Products

Patran

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Data Sheet

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PA*2007APR*DSThe MSC.Sotware corporate logo, MSC, and the names o the MSC.Sotware products and services reerenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks o the MSC.SotwareCorporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. 2007 MSC.Sotware Corporation. All rights reserved.

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www.mscsotware.com

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MSC.Software GmbH

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1-Chome, Shinjuku-Ku

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Telephone 81 3 6911 1200

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Engineering Products

Patran

applications, commands, and menus.

Patran users can easily and eectively

iterate and evaluate dierent design

decisions and reuse existing designs and

results without non-value-added manual

clean-up and recreation o data.

Direct Access o CAD Geometry

Patran enables direct access to geometry

rom leading CAD systems or creating

nite element models. With direct access,

geometry remains intact in the CAD ormat

and is imported into Patran database without

any translation or modication. Support

or many industry-standard geometry

exchange ormats is provided. An option is

also available or direct import into Parasolid

ormat or several CAD systems and

exchange ormats. All nite elements, loads,

boundary conditions, and material properties

can be associated to the geometry.

Geometry Creation and Editing

Patran contains an advanced set o geometry

creation tools in addition to the direct CAD

access capabilities or generating nite

element model geometry. Patran also

has a sophisticated eature recognition

capability that allow users to delete or edit

holes, llets, and chamers. For 3D solid

geometry, existing meshes and loads will

be automoatically re-applied to the model

ater a change is made to the geometry.

Integration with MSC Nastran

Patran is tailored to support MSC Nastran

to enable the use o common nite

element models and perorm advanced

engineering analysis. Perorm linear,

nonlinear, and dynamic structural analyses

using MSC Nastrans best in class solver

technology. Enhance your design using

MSC Nastrans Design Optimization and

Topology Optimization capabilities.

Graphical User Interace

Patrans graphical user interace is

a orms-based, mouse-driven menu

system or the operation o all tasks. It is

designed to be easy to learn and use.

Interactive Help On-Line

Patrans Help system provides a

context-sensitive hypertext mechanism

enabling the user to quickly navigate

through the entire on-line document to

nd inormation on topics o interest.

Finite Element Modeling

Patrans nite element modeling system

permits the user to directly access

model geometry and to quickly develop

nite element meshes. Easily create and

modiy your nite element mesh using

automated mesh generators and MSC.

Sotwares technology such as the Mid-

Plane and Advanced Surace Meshers,

Loads and Boundary Conditions

Patran provides a complete set o loads

and boundary conditions such as structural

and thermal. Functional variations can

be evaluated with mathematical actors

or other analysis results. Loads and

boundary conditions can be specied

as total or incremental basis. A new Bolt

Tool is available to easily create bolts

and other connectors or more ecient

assembly modeling and analysis.

Materials and Elements Properties

Patran supports an array o material

models such as Isotropic, orthotropic,

anisotropic, composite, thermal isotropic,thermal orthotropic and thermal anisotropic

to perorm a variety o analysis.

Results Evaluation

Patran can quickly and clearly display

analysis results in structural, thermal,

atigue, fuid, magnetic terms, or in

relation to any other application where the

resultant values are associated with their

respective nite elements or nodes.

Imaging

Imaging encompasses the complete

graphics capability ound within the Patran

product, including graphic shading and visual

verication prior to analysis. Imaging eatures

a number o options that take advantage ospecialized hardware capabilities, including

local view manipulation, local shading,

multiple light sources, and transparency.

You can also export images and movies

in many standard ormats to include in

documents and web-based reporting.

Patran Command Language

PCL is the programming language at the

heart o Patran. PCL is a high-level, block-

structured language that provides many

eatures ound in traditional programming

languages. It can be used to write application

or site-specic commands and menus,

perorm variational modeling, and to more

completely integrate with commercial

or in-house sotware programs.

Confguration Requirements

Patran currently supports many Unix,

Windows and Linux based computer

platorms, operating systems, and graphic

devices. System resources required to

operate Patran depend upon a number

o actors including the overall size and

complexity o each model. Please consult with

your local MSC.Sotware representative ora current list o Patran supported computer

systems or your particular application.