Comprehensive and industry accredited capabilities in Patran ensure quick outcome from your virtual prototyping efforts so that you can assess product performance and design optimization against requirements and suitably optimize your designs.

Key Benefits

Direct Access to Leading CAD Geometry

Patran gives direct access to geometry from foremost CAD systems to create finite element models and provides support for various industry-standard geometry exchange formats. With an option to import from and export into Para solid format supported by multiple CAD systems, Patran helps to associate all the finite elements, loads, boundary conditions, and material properties to the geometry.

Advanced Geometry Creation, Editing and Feature Recognition

Along with the direct CAD access capabilities, Patran contains an advanced set of geometry creation tools for generating the finite element model geometry. Users can delete or edit holes, fillets, and chamfers using its sophisticated feature recognition capability. If changes are made in the 3D solid geometry, existing meshes and loads will automatically be reapplied to the model.

Support for Multiple FEA Solvers

Patran is customized for supporting both linear and nonlinear deck preparation for MSC Nastran. It enables the use of common finite element models and perform advanced engineering analysis and enhance designs using MSC Nastran’s Design Optimization and topology optimization capabilities. Besides Nastran, Patran also supports other solvers developed by MSC including Marc, Dytran, MSC Sinda and imports the other solvers FE models and results such as Abaqus, Ansys, LS-Dyna, and Pamcrash, etc., thereby allowing the user to remain in a single GUI even while having to use multiple solvers for the various analyses.

Post-processing and Reporting Tools for Easy Results Evaluation

From structural, thermal, fatigue, fluid to magnetic analyses, Patran shows the results for any application where the subsequent values are related to their individual finite elements or nodes. Imaging features numerous options that take benefit from specialised hardware capabilities including local view manipulation, local shading, multiple light sources and transparency. Graphic shading and visual verification prior to analysis are included in the graphics capability found within Patran. Images and movies in standard formats can also be exported to be included in documents and web-based reporting.

Patran Command Language

Patran Command Language or PCL is a high-level, block-structured programming language that offers many features found in conventional programming languages. It can be used to write application or site-specific commands & menus, perform variational modeling, and work in complete unison with commercial or in-house software.

Patran for MSC Fatigue

Patran for MSC Fatigue is customized to set up the MSC Fatigue module for stress or strain results from finite element models, variations in loading, and cyclic material properties to estimate life-to-failure. Both the traditional Stress-Life (S-N) and local strain or Crack Initiation methods are available. With minimal knowledge of fatigue analysis, users can perform such evaluations directly in their familiar FE modeling environment. When used early in a development design cycle it is possible to greatly enhance product life as well as reduce costs due to re-designs, prototyping and testing.

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