Patran 2009 - MSC · PDF fileWelcome to Patran 2009 This MSC.Software release of Patran continues to make strides in performance and solver support, while laying much of the groundwork

MSC.Software: Product Brief - Patran 2009 - What’s New

Patran 2009

PRODUCT BRIEF

Welcome to Patran 2009

This MSC.Software release of Patran continues to make strides in performance and solver support, while laying much of the groundwork for enhanced

user experience with an updated, user-friendly interface. Major areas of focus for this release include the following:

Modernized Interface

The Windows version of Patran provides a new, modernized interface for improved user efficiency. Users will see a fresh appearance to the menus

through a familiar Windows and Office ribbon structure making menu items easily accessible with less mouse travel and fewer clicks.

Usability and Productivity

Patran’s standard toolbar has been replaced by an easily-customizable Quick Access Bar (QAB). This lets you put any of the commands that you may

commonly use in an easily accessible QAB.

The Right Mouse Button (RMB) click provides drop down menus that are context sensitive. This gives users access to several relevant menu commands

without having to navigate away from the graphics region to make a selection.

Multidiscipline and Multiphysics Support

This release of Patran provides access to extended solver capabilities so analysts can setup and run an extended number of physics based event simula-

tions including advanced contact, composites, rotor dynamics, external acoustics, multiphysics, and more.

CAD Access

Patran continues to provide updates for the latest CAD platforms so users can continue to import and interact with the latest CAD releases.

Performance

Patran has been ported to 64-bit platform providing analysts with significant efficiency improvements in speed with less memory requirements when

importing and manipulating very large models.

Simulation Process and Data Management

Patran provides direct integration with SimManager so analysts can automatically publish, manage, and share data across the enterprise. Integration with

SimManager R3 is now available on Windows and Linux platforms.

Patran 2009 enhancements are designed to improve user efficiency, make it easier to access features through a modernized interface, provide superior

performance and speed improvements, and extend solver support so analysts can run a wider range of multidiscipline based simulations.

Thank you very much for your continued support of Patran.

The MSC.Software Product team

MSC.Software: Product Brief - Patran 2009 - What’s NewPRODUCT BRIEF

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Modernized Interface

Skins of choice

The Windows version of Patran offers the capability to change the

graphical user interface skin allowing the users to choose appearance

of the interface from available six options. These new skins provide a

fresh appearance to the menus in the familiar Windows and Office ribbon

structure. Additionally, this approach makes the menu items easily

accessible with less mouse travel and fewer clicks. The Patran database

itself is independent of the skin used, so you do not have to be concerned

about sharing files with users that may be using a different skin option.

Quick Access Toolbar

In the Windows version, the standard toolbar has been replaced by an

easily-cusomizable Quick Access Bar (QAB). This lets you put any of

the commands that you may commonly use to be placed in an easily

accessible QAB. Any changes you make to the toolbar persist across

sessions, so you do not have to repeat these actions. Custom icons

pointing to user-defined functions can also be added using the

p3toolbar.def file.

Easier Dynamic Manipulation

When you need to manipulate your model (zoom, pan, rotate), Patran now

lets you handle these dynamics by maintaining the mouse right within the

graphics region. This is achieved with the help of the hot keys of Shift and

Control buttons along with middle mouse button. This approach is very

convenient and efficient to users, because there is less hand motion to

toggle on and off the required type dynamic model manipulation.

Context Sensitive Menus

The Right Mouse Button (RMB) click provides drop down menus that

are context sensitive. This gives users access to several relevant menu

commands without having to navigate away from the graphics region to

make a selection. With the, RMB menus, users can perform operations

like verify and optimize on the model entities and also modify viewport

display and model orientation, among many other. The context based

system also offers smarter choices based on the selected entity. Expect

to see more dramatic enhancements in 2010 release on this front.

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Multidiscipline and Multiphysics Support

MD Nastran SOL400 Support

Step/Subcase Designation

The Step/Subcase distinction has been improved with introduction a tree

structure that helps users to have a clearer graphical representation of all

the step/subcase organization in a job. While this tree structure is currently

limited to this form, a more complete analysis tree will be implemented

in Release 2010. With the use of the Analysis tree and its drag-and-drop

capabilities, you can expect to see dramatic improvements in the way you

build and navigate through your model.

Contact

By providing graphical support to the contact capabilities of MD Nastran,

Patran enables to take advantage of

the full power of its nonlinear analysis

capabilities. The easy contact set up for

all types of elements, beams, shells and

solids, along with the various contact

parameters that control the analysis are

accessible right from Patran saving you

considerable model creation time.


Ease of Use

Current Working Directory

Often users start Patran in one directory, but open a file in a different

directory with the intention of continuing the work in that directory. In the

current version, the current working directory is automatically saved to the

location of the database. This saves effort in having to make sure Patran

gets started in the desired directory every time a new database is opened.

CAD Access

Spatial InterOp, the Parasolid based translators, have been updated

to the R20 revision. With this update, Parasolid import now supports

up to version 20. Support for Catia V5 R19 is also available through

the Parasolid import method using Spatial InterOp translators. NX 5

is supported on most platforms, except for Windows where NX 6 is

supported.

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Composites

The composites capabilities and enhancements introduced in MD Nastran

R3 are now supported by Patran including support for 3D solid elements

in addition to shell models, PCOMP and PCOMPLS property data and

various material failure models. This helps users take full advantage of the

capabilities of MD Nastran through the easy to use graphical interface.

Campbell Diagram

Campbell diagrams are indispensable for rotordynamic anlayses by

helping with identification of critical speeds and stability analysis. Patran

now provides a utility that can be used to plot these diagrams.

Results

Exterior acoustic results via the OP2 file can now be imported. The data

blocks supported include OARPWR1 (Acoustic power), OAIG1 (Acoustic

intensity), OUGFP1 (Field point mesh), and OVGFP1 (Field point velocity).

Marc

Multiphysics

Patran now supports majority of multiphysics capabilities of Marc

including:

• Electrostatic

• Joule heating

• Electrostatic-structural coupling

• Joule-structural coupling

• Magnetostatics

• Electromagnetics

• Induction heating

(electromagnetic-thermal coupling)

• Piezoelectric

The physics selection is done under the Analysis application. With these

additions, Patran provides access to even more of the complex nonlinear

analysis capabilities of Marc without the need for editing the input file.

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Performance

64-bit port

A native port to 64-bit Windows machine is available along with a pre-

release version for Linux 64 that can be used for testing. 32-bit production

version is still available for both 64 and 32-bit Windows and Linux as

well as all other supported platforms. With the 64-bit version, Patran can

access all the available memory on the system removing the limitation that

exists with 32-bit systems. This allows the user to work with larger models

without affecting performance. On average a 15% performance gain has

been noticed compared to 32-bit version and the meshing performance

remains linear as long as the program does not need to swap memory to

disk. Future plans include native 64-bit ports for all supported platforms.

Simulation Process and Data Management

Patran database integration with SimManager R3 is available on Windows

and Linux platforms. With this capability, users can publish and retrieve

Patran databases and other related files directly from within Patran using

the SimManager R3 client accessible from File pull down menu. Once the

server connection properties and setting are established, users can easily

communicate with SimManager.

Patran 2010 Future Investments

During the past few releases Patran has been improving its capabilities of

solver support. We have also embarked on a journey that is to provide an

exciting experience to the users in terms of user experience and ease of

use. As we have hinted in this document, Patran has already taken some

steps to enhancing the user experience and has laid the groundwork for

the next version.

Here are some of the key capabilities you can expect to see in the next

version.

• Expanded implementation of context sensitive menus that covers

materials, properties, loads and boundary conditions and more

• Analysis tree to provide a complete view of your model right on the

screen

• Drag and drop capability that would help you build and update analysis

tree contents and hence build the model more easily

• Improved support for solver functionality with ease of use as a priority

• Real time job and results monitoring

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Patran – Your Future Assured

With your continued support, MSC.Software is committed to enhancing our core CAE modeling solution, Patran. This will provide our valued customer

with the following benefits:

User Efficiency and Lower Cost of Ownership

With the new and upcoming enhancements, you can see your current and future training support and training expenses reduced not only because of

staying with proven, familiar software, but also because of the usability improvements.

CAE Modeler Designed For Multidisciplinary Analysis with Multi-solver Support

Patran currently supports capabilities across multiple disciplines, including linear, nonlinear, implicit and explicit dynamics, thermal and so on. Its

commitment to open architectures lets you use a solver of your preference, even though it may not be from MSC.Software. Such openness and flexibility,

Patran is always available as your simulation needs grow or change.

Modernized Interface for Improved Efficiency

With the redesign of interface, you can gain an immediate boost in efficiency. The interface updates provide ease of use and make job of modeling/

analysis/post-processing easier by making commands more accessible and getting the tasks done quicker. All this is done, without sacrificing the

flexibility and openness of the product and without affecting any customizations you have implemented.

Improved Performance

Performance is a moving target, and Patran continues its efforts to provide the best-in-class performance. With the ports for 64-bit platforms, Patran is

able to work with extremely large models, with your system sources as the only limit. The 64-bit has also shown performance improvements, especially for

32-bit models. Further enhancements can be seen in the next and future releases.

MSC’s Commitment to its Customers

MSC.Software recognizes the needs of our customers and appreciates the confidence and trust they have placed in our products all these years. This is

also demonstrated by the customizations of the product and level of integration of our products into their CAE processes. MSC.Software commits itself

to customer needs and requirements and as such, has focused on improvements in usability, performance and solver support. You will be seeing more

advances going into the product and we, as always, are pleased to have you as a customer and partner.


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