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MSC Software: Product Datasheet - Patran®

Patran

®

The Industry’s Leading Finite Element
Modeling Environment

Overview

Capabilities

Patran is a comprehensive pre- and post-processing environment for FEA analysis and helps
engineers to virtually conceptualize, develop and test product designs. Used by the world’s
leading manufacturing companies as their standard tool for the creation and analysis of
simulation models, Patran links design, analysis, and results evaluation in a single environment.

• Intuitive graphical interface with direct access
of CAD geometry with automatic/interactive
feature recognition.

Companies can reduce time can cost of product development process by incorporating
Patran into their simulation process. By enabling engineers to access the industry’s leading
analysis programs, Patran can help organizations reduce the cost and burden of maintaining
multiple pre- and post-processing tools in different parts of the organization and improve the
time to market.
Through the seamless integration of CAD geometry, pre- and post-processing capabilities
and the ability to perform sophisticated simulations on virtual parts, assemblies and structures,
Patran is a key part of the design process for companies who rely on fast time to market and
extraordinary product quality to drive market share and profits.
Patran enables engineers to directly import geometry from the CAD program of engineer’s
choice, and then define loads, boundary conditions, and material properties, perform different
simulations under different conditions, visualize the results, and ultimately better understand
the relationship between design decisions and product performance characteristics such as
stress, strain, vibration, heat transfer and many more.
In addition, Patran’s graphical interface is built to be fully customizable to your organization’s
unique engineering processes. With Patran Control Language (PCL), engineers can supplement
the powerful modeling and analysis capabilities with their own, customized applications,
commands, and menus. Patran users can easily iterate and evaluate different design decisions
and reuse existing designs and results without non-valueadded manual clean-up and recreation
of data.

Direct Access of CAD Geometry
Patran enables access to geometry from leading CAD systems for creating finite element
models. Support for many industry-standard geometry exchange formats is also provided.
An option is also available for direct import from and export into Parasolid format supported
by several CAD systems. All finite elements, loads, boundary conditions, and material
properties can be associated to the geometry.

• Integration with MSC Software and
third-party solvers
• Robust automatic surface and solid mesh
generation with advanced surface
mesh-on-mesh capability.
• Connectors and bolts with pre-loads
• Full 3D general contact available for
nonlinear analyses.
• Support for Nastran’s Design Optimization
and Topology Optimization.
• Support for Nastran’s Superelements
• Support for Marc’s Coupled Analyses
• Comprehensive results post-processing.
• Results standardization through
results templates.
• Customization through Patran Command
Language (PCL).

Benefits
• Increase productivity of your design and
development process
• Reduce development costs through
increased use of simulation technologies
• Improve productivity and accuracy with
multidiscipline analysis and optimization

Geometry Creation and Editing
Patran contains an advanced set of geometry creation tools in addition to the direct CAD access
capabilities for generating finite element model geometry. Patran also has a sophisticated
feature recognition capability that allows users to delete or edit holes, fillets, and chamfers. For
3D solid geometry, existing meshes and loads will be automatically re-applied to the model after
a change is made to the geometry.

Patran Interface and New Model Browser Tree