Mentat

Brief Description:

MSC.Mentat is a finite element pre- and post-processor. It is a full-featured modeling environment for almost any kind of structural or thermal geometry. MSC.Mentat provides a meshing facility which facilitates the placement of loads and restraints. Finite element models can be exported for structural analysis with MSC.Marc and MSC.Nastran.

MSC.Marc/Mentat 2007r1 is available to all NCSA academic users on the following system:

SGI/Altix (co.ncsa.uiuc.edu) version 2007r1

All Mentat users must be added to the access list for Marc. Please send email to csm@ncsa.uiuc.edu to be added to the access list for Marc.

Commercial use of MSC.Marc is governed by the NCSA Private Sector Program. Please contact Seid Koric at skoric@ncsa.uiuc.edu for more information.

Using MSC.Mentat

Type the following command to start MSC.Mentat: /usr/apps/csm/scripts/mentat_script

Type the following command to list the command line options:
mentat -help

For documentation use the help function in MSC.Mentat.

Note: Remember to set your DISPLAY and xhost variables.

Since Mentat is an iteractive tool please note that interactive limits on on SGI/Altix are 30min for CPU and 500MB for RAM. All jobs that exceed these limits will be terminated. If you need interactive limit extension send an email to skoric@ncsa.uiuc.edu with a brief explanation.

If you have problems accessing or using MSC.Mentat at NCSA, please send email to csm@ncsa.edu.