Patran

Brief Description:

MSC.Patran is an industry-standard finite element pre- and post-processor. It is a full-featured modeling environment for almost any kind of structural or thermal geometry. MSC.Patran provides a meshing facility which facilitates the placement of loads and restraints. Finite element models can be exported to many structural analysis codes including MSC.Marc, MSC.Nastran, Abaqus, ANSYS and a host of other solvers, including its own inherent linear solver.

MSC.Patran is available to all NCSA academic users on the following system:

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

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

Using MSC. Patran:

Just type /usr/apps/csm/patran2007/bin/patran. Your DISPLAY variable must be set to your local machine and you must have xhost software like Exceed running on your local PC, if your are on a linux/unix box you must first xhost +, or ssh -X (with ssh tunneling enabeled).
Patran is an interactive GUI based software. Running Patran interactively on cobalt's access nodes is limited to 30 min of cpu time.

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