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:

Xeon/Linux cluster (tun.ncsa.uiuc.edu) version 2005r2

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 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 + .
Patran is an interactive GUI based software. Running Patran interactively on tun's access nodes is not allowed.
You must first access a tun's compute node through bsub -Is -n2 -W[hour]:minute tcsh
Where -W[hour]:minute is a maximum wall clock access time to a tun's compute node.

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