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  • MSC Patran 2006

    Release Guide

  • CorporateMSC.Software Corporation2 MacArthur PlaceSanta Ana, CA 92707 USATelephone: (800) 345-2078Fax: (714) 784-4056

    EuropeMSC.Software GmbHAm Moosfeld 1381829 Munich, GermanyTelephone: (49) (89) 43 19 87 0Fax: (49) (89) 43 61 71 6

    Asia PacificMSC.Software Japan Ltd.Shinjuku First West 8F23-7 Nishi Shinjuku1-Chome, Shinjuku-Ku Tokyo 160-0023, JAPANTelephone: (81) (3)-6911-1200Fax: (81) (3)-6911-1201

    Worldwide Webwww.mscsoftware.com

    Disclaimer

    This documentation, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used only in accordance with the terms of such license.

    MSC.Software Corporation reserves the right to make changes in specifications and other information contained in this document without prior notice.

    The concepts, methods, and examples presented in this text are for illustrative and educational purposes only, and are not intended to be exhaustive or to apply to any particular engineering problem or design. MSC.Software Corporation assumes no liability or responsibility to any person or company for direct or indirect damages resulting from the use of any information contained herein.

    User Documentation: Copyright 2006 MSC.Software Corporation. Printed in U.S.A. All Rights Reserved.This notice shall be marked on any reproduction of this documentation, in whole or in part. Any reproduction or distribution of this document, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of MSC.Software Corporation is prohibited.

    The software described herein may contain certain third-party software that is protected by copyright and licensed from MSC.Software suppliers. Contains IBM XL Fortran for AIX V8.1, Runtime Modules, (c) Copyright IBM Corporation 1990-2002, All Rights Reserved.

    MSC, MSC/, MSC., MSC.Dytran, MSC.Fatigue, MSC.Marc, MSC.Patran, Laminate Modeler, and PATRAN are trademarks or registered trademarks of MSC.Software Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

    NASTRAN is a registered trademark of NASA. PAM-CRASH is a trademark or registered trademark of ESI Group. SAMCEF is a trademark or registered trademark of Samtech SA. LS-DYNA is a trademark or registered trademark of Livermore Software Technology Corporation. ANSYS is a registered trademark of SAS IP, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of ANSYS Inc. ABAQUS is a registered trademark of ABAQUS Inc. ACIS is a registered trademark of Spatial Technology, Inc. CATIA is a registered trademark of Dassault Systemes, SA. EUCLID is a registered trademark of Matra Datavision Corporation. FLEXlm is a registered trademark of Macrovision Corporation. HPGL is a trademark of Hewlett Packard. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. PTC, CADDS and Pro/ENGINEER are trademarks or registered trademarks of Parametric Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.Unigraphics, Parasolid and I-DEAS are registered trademarks of UGS Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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  • C O N T E N T SMSC Patran Release Guide MSC Patran Release Guide,

    1MSC Patran 2006at a Glance

    Key Highlights for MSC Patran 2006, 2 MSC Nastran Preference, 2 Marc Preference, 4 CAD Access, 6 General, 7

    - Materials Composite Laminate form Enhancements, 8

    Supported Hardware Platforms, 9

    Supported CAD Access , 11

    Analysis Preferences Tested in MSC Patran, 12

    Product Defect Corrections, 13

    Technical Support, 22

    INDEX MSC Patran Release Guide, 25

  • MSC/PATRAN Users Guide, Part 4: Finite Element Modeling

    Preface

    List of MSC.Patran Books

    Technical Support

    Internet Resources

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    List of MSC.Patran BooksBelow is a list of some of the MSC.Nastran documents. You may order any of these documents from the MSC.Software BooksMart site at www.engineering-e.com.

    Installation and Release Guides

    Installation and Operations Guide

    Release Guide

    Users Guides and Reference Manuals

    MSC.Patran Users Guide

    MSC.Patran Reference Manual

    MSC.Patran Analysis Manager

    MSC.Patran Materials

    MSC.Patran Thermal

    Preference Guides

    ABAQUS

    ANSYS

    LS-DYNA

    MSC.Marc

    MSC.Dytran

    MSC.Nastran

    PAMCRASH

    SAMCEF

    PATRAN 2 Neutral File

  • vPreface

    Technical SupportFor help with installing or using an MSC.Software product, contact your local technical support services. Our technical support provides the following services:

    Resolution of installation problems Advice on specific analysis capabilities Advice on modeling techniques Resolution of specific analysis problems (e.g., fatal messages) Verification of code error.

    If you have concerns about an analysis, we suggest that you contact us at an early stage.

    You can reach technical support services on the web, by telephone, or e-mail:

    Web Go to the MSC.Software website at www.mscsoftware.com, and click on Support. Here, you can find a wide variety of support resources including application examples, technical application notes, available training courses, and documentation updates at the MSC.Software Training, Technical Support, and Documentation web page.

    Phone and Fax

    United StatesTelephone: (800) 732-7284Fax: (714) 784-4343

    Frimley, CamberleySurrey, United KingdomTelephone: (44) (1276) 67 10 00Fax: (44) (1276) 69 11 11

    Munich, GermanyTelephone: (49) (89) 43 19 87 0Fax: (49) (89) 43 61 71 6

    Tokyo, JapanTelephone: (81) (3) 3505 02 66Fax: (81) (3) 3505 09 14

    Rome, ItalyTelephone: (390) (6) 5 91 64 50Fax: (390) (6) 5 91 25 05

    Paris, FranceTelephone: (33) (1) 69 36 69 36Fax: (33) (1) 69 36 45 17

    Moscow, RussiaTelephone: (7) (095) 236 6177Fax: (7) (095) 236 9762

    Gouda, The NetherlandsTelephone: (31) (18) 2543700Fax: (31) (18) 2543707

    Madrid, SpainTelephone: (34) (91) 5560919Fax: (34) (91) 5567280

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    Email Send a detailed description of the problem to the email address below that corresponds to the product you are using. You should receive an acknowledgement that your message was received, followed by an email from one of our Technical Support Engineers.

    TrainingThe MSC Institute of Technology is the world's largest global supplier of CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM training products and services for the product design, analysis and manufacturing market. We offer over 100 courses through a global network of education centers. The Institute is uniquely positioned to optimize your investment in design and simulation software tools.

    Our industry experienced expert staff is available to customize our course offerings to meet your unique training requirements. For the most effective training, The Institute also offers many of our courses at our customer's facilities.

    The MSC Institute of Technology is located at:

    2 MacArthur PlaceSanta Ana, CA 92707Phone: (800) 732-7211 Fax: (714) 784-4028

    The Institute maintains state-of-the-art classroom facilities and individual computer graphics laboratories at training centers throughout the world. All of our courses emphasize hands-on computer laboratory work to facility skills development.

    We specialize in customized training based on our evaluation of your design and simulation processes, which yields courses that are geared to your business.

    In addition to traditional instructor-led classes, we also offer video and DVD courses, interactive multimedia training, web-based training, and a specialized instructor's program.

    MSC.Patran SupportMSC.Nastran SupportMSC.Nastran for Windows SupportMSC.visualNastran Desktop 2D SupportMSC.visualNastran Desktop 4D SupportMSC.Abaqus SupportMSC.Dytran SupportMSC.Fatigue SupportMSC.Interactive Physics SupportMSC.Marc SupportMSC.Mvision SupportMSC.SuperForge SupportMSC Institute Course Information

    [email protected]@[email protected]@mscsoftware.comvndesktop.support@mscsoftware.commscabaqus.support@mscsoftware.commscdytran.support@[email protected]@[email protected]@mscsoftware.commscsuperforge.support@[email protected]

  • viiPreface

    Course Information and Registration. For detailed course descriptions, schedule information, and registration call the Training Specialist at (800) 732-7211 or visit www.mscsoftware.com.

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    Internet Resources

    MSC.Software (www.mscsoftware.com)

    MSC.Software corporate site with information on the latest events, products and services for the CAD/CAE/CAM marketplace.

    Simulation Center (simulate.engineering-e.com)

    Simulate Online. The Simulation Center provides all your simulation, FEA, and other engineering tools over the Internet.

    Engineering-e.com (www.engineering-e.com)

    Engineering-e.com is the first virtual marketplace where clients can find engineering expertise, and engineers can find the goods and services they need to do their job

    CATIASOURCE (plm.mscsoftware.com)

    Your SOURCE for Total Product Lifecycle Management Solutions.

    Process Architecture Lab (PAL) (pal.mscsoftware.com/services/pal)

    PAL is a virtual product development environment that enables PAL participants and customers to define, validate, and demonstrate advanced tools, processes, and e-business solutions.

  • MSC Patran Release Guide

    CHAPTER

    1 MSC Patran 2006at a Glance Key Highlights for MSC Patran 2006

    Supported Hardware Platforms

    Supported CAD Access

    Analysis Preferences Tested in MSC Patran

    Product Defect Corrections

    Technical Support

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    1.1 Key Highlights for MSC Patran 2006

    MSC Nastran Preference

    Title, Subtitle, and Label definitions

    The user interface for the MSC Nastran analysis preference has been updated to support Title, Subtitle, and Label definitions at the analysis-wide level, the individual subcase level, as well as forward and reverse translator updates for supporting the title data in a consistent fashion. For more detail see Analysis Form (p. 199) in the MSC Patran Interface to MSC Nastran Preference Guide, Volume 1: Structural Analysis and Basic Output Requests (p. 303) in the MSC Patran Interface to MSC Nastran Preference Guide, Volume 1: Structural Analysis.

    This enhancement also lets you define what information is displayed in the Select Result Case(s) listbox on the results form, including the new TITLE and LABEL information (SUBTITLE already displayed within the loadcase name). For more detail see Edit Result Case Listbox (p. 17) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 6: Results Postprocessing.

    Arbitrary Beam

    Support has been added for Open and Closed Profiles for the MSC Nastran Arbitrary Beam entries. Use of arbitrary beam creation is documented in Tools>Beam Library (p. 428) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions and in Beam Modeling (p. 164) in the MSC Patran Interface to MSC Nastran Preference Guide, Volume 1: Structural Analysis.

    Total Heat and Nodal Based Convection

    Two new Load types have been added to the MSC Nastran Thermal analysis type:

    Applied Heat | Option = Total HeatUsers are allowed to enter a total amount of heat that will be distributed evenly amongst all the entities in the application region. For instance, if the user enters 200 total heat to be applied to 4 elements (and every element is the same size) then every element will get 50 units of heat applied to it. This is similar to Total Load in the Structural analysis type where a distributed load applies the pressure amongst many elements. The appropriate QBDY3 and CHBDYG/E entries are created.

    Convection | Element VariableThis writes CONV and corresponding PCONV, CHBDYG/PHBDY, MAT4 and SPOINT entries for defining element variable convection definitions to the nodes. Thus, this is an element nodal definition. This is mostly useful and different from the element uniform type if the properties are allowed to vary spatially.

  • 3CHAPTER 1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance

    For more information on these two new LBCs, please see Loads and Boundary Conditions Form (p. 60) in the MSC Patran Interface to MSC Nastran Preference Guide, Volume 2: Thermal Analysis.

    SOL 600

    A number of improvements have been made to the Contact Table interface to make it easier to work with and more versatile. Since this Contact Table form is shared with the Marc Preference, these improvements are described below in Contact Table (p. 4).

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    Marc Preference

    Contact Table

    A number of improvements have been made in the Contact Table interface to make it more user friendly and versatile. These are summarized as:

    Import/export of a comma delimited file definition Selection of existing tables associtated with other Load Steps. Resizing of the form to accomodate large tables More of the form is visible (less scrolling if large number of bodies) Control over more body pair parameters (hard-soft ratio, friction stress limit,

    slide-off length, bias factor, etc.)

    For more details, please see Contact Table (p. 241) in the MSC Patran Interface to Marc Preference Guide.

    Contact: Auto Detection of Discontinuities

    Deformable contact bodies can be defined analytically in Marc at each increment or specified increments. This means each body is fit with a coons surface (3D) or spline (2D). At discontinuities, this is not desirable. To define these discontinities, a user has to specifically define them in the Marc input deck. Now when defining a deformable contact body you can automatically have the discontinuities identified and passed to the input deck based on a feature angle (60 degree default). Any elements whose normals differ by the feature angle value or greater are identified as a discontinuity. This can be done both in MSC Patran and in latest version of Marc itself. The Marc Preference allows you to specify this automatic discontinuity detection as automatic in MSC Patran and/or in Marc itself. For details on how this is done, see Contact (p. 50) in the MSC Patran Interface to Marc Preference Guide.

    Multi-Physics

    This is the first step of exposing the true multi-physics analysis capabilities of Marc in the Marc Preference. With the analysis type set to Coupled, a user may now specify the physics types and any possible coupling between these physics types. In this release only Electostatics is supported. In future releases this will be extended to the most commonly used physics types supported by Marc. Extensions to Joule Heating, Magnetostatics, Electromagnetics, Acoustics, and other physics types are planned in future releases. Please stay tuned.

    This capability is accessed under the Load Step Select form. Once you have created applicable loads and boundary conditions and segregated them accordingly in Load Cases and set up applicable Load Steps, you then define the physics type when you select the Load Steps for your analysis. See Load Step Selection (p. 274) in the MSC Patran Interface to Marc Preference Guide.

  • 5CHAPTER 1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance

    New or Enhanced LBCs

    The following Loads and Boundary Conditions have either been added or expanded in the Marc Preference. For details on each of these, see the LBC support table in Loads and Boundary Conditions - Contact (p. 35) in the MSC Patran Interface to Marc Preference Guide.

    Volumetric FluxFor Thermal and Coupled analysis, volumetric flux via DIST FLUXES option is now definable.

    Flux on ShellsHeat Source (POINT FLUX) is now definable on shell elements for thermal and coupled analysis where top, bottom, and middle values may be specified. This is accomplished using the Element Variable type.

    LBC User SubroutinesMost LBCs now allow for specification of User Subroutine usage. This allows a user to use the FORCDT, FORCEM, FLUX, and other LBC user subroutines in Marc.

    Follower ForcesGeneral follower forces and loads can be specified on a generally global basis under the Solution Parameters form. Now, however, in addition to this, each individual force can have its own specification to be a follower force or not. Note that if follower forces are turned on generally, all forces become follower forces. This parameter should be turned OFF if inidividual forces are to be specified as follower forces. This is possible only when using the new table formatted LBCs.

    Displacent Activation PositionEach displacement LBC can now be flagged to have their ending postion be relative to the displacements at the beginning of the last Marc load case (as opposed to being a total displacement relative to zero). This is only possible when using the new table formatted LBCs.

    AccelerationSupport for FIXED ACCE and ACCEL CHANGE options are possible through the Acceleration LBC. These LBCs are ignored and not supported in Marc if the new table formatted LBCs are flagged.

    ReleaseSupport for the RELEASE NODE option is possible through the Release Node LBC. This LBC is ignored and not supported in Marc if the new table formatted LBCs are flagged. Use the LOADCASE option instead under Load Case Select form.

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    CAD Access

    Interop R16

    The Spatial Interop, Parasolid based translators for CAD Access of STEP, VDA-FS, IGES, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA V4/V5, and ACIS have been updated to the R16 revision. Instructions for importing CATIA files is found in Importing CATIA Files (p. 99) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions

    CATIA Tree Import

    When importing a CATIA V5 Part or Product file, the CATIA tree descriptor can also be imported to MSC Patran. The tree structure is imported as hgroups (hierarchical groups). A description of this functionality can be found in Importing the CATIA V5 Tree (p. 108) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions. Hgroup functionality is explained in Hierarchical Groups (Hgroups) (p. 255) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions.

  • 7CHAPTER 1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance

    General

    Named Application Regions

    Users may define named application regions for use in the Element Properties and Loads and Boundary Conditions applications and in other specific areas of the code where application regions are necessary. Named regions are similar to groups but used specifically for defining application regions. A group, as opposed to a named region, is a collection of whole entities such as elements, nodes, solids, curves, etc. A named region is also a collection of entities, but those entities do not have to be whole entities. They can be, as well as whole entities, faces of elements, edges of solids, etc. The use of this new tool is described in Tools>Regions (p. 443) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions

    Display Ranges Enhancement

    Enhancements have been made to the Display Ranges functionality. See Display>Ranges (p. 342) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions. Some of the key enhancements are:

    Data Methods / Algorithms: The Fit Results option used within many of the Data Method Algorithms that define a range's sub-intervals have been enhanced. You can now select the analysis data defined for any post processing tool that currently exists regardless if the post processing tool is posted in a viewport or not. Previously data related to the current range tool was used for the fit results algorithm. See Data Methods (p. 344) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions for more information.

    Data Methods / Algorithms: A Delta Log Data Method algorithm has been added so you can define a range's sub-intervals. If the cluster algorithm detects data clusters within the input analysis data, the algorithm will create the range sub-intervals that represent the data clusters. See Algorithms (p. 344) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions for more information.

    Data Methods / Algorithms: A Cluster Data Method algorithm has been added so you can define a range's sub-intervals. After entering a range start and delta log value, a logarithmic range will be created. See Algorithms (p. 344) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions for more information.

    Range labels can now be customized. You can now control Labels for values inside and outside the range, as well as labels for values that fall within the maximum to minimum range bounds but do not map to an interval within the range. Any combination of these labels can be toggled on/off. Range labels can now include prefix and suffix text that can be applied to all sub-

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    interval labels. Custom labels can be defined for a label by pressing its Custom button found on the range form and then entering the desired text. See Label Display (p. 350) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions for more information.

    Range sub-intervals can now be created to represent data ranges where there is no data, the data exists but there is no sub-interval that would contain the data, or the data exists but is above or below the current maximum and minimum range values. See No Matching Sub-range (p. 352) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 1: Basic Functions for more information.

    Materials Composite Laminate form Enhancements

    The Materials Composite Laminate form was changed to make it easier to use and the documentation was updated to explain the updates. Here is a summary of the changes:

    Made it impossible to enter global ply id data when the stacking sequence convention is not Total. An informational message appears in the output window if you try to select the global ply id column when the stacking sequence convention is not Total.

    Disabled the global ply ids radio button when the stacking sequence convention is not Total.

    If there are global ply ids entered, and the stacking sequence convention is changed to anything but Total, the following message will appear:

    Global ply IDs can only be defined when using the Total stacking sequence convention. Do you want to remove all global ply IDs?

    Answering Yes will remove any global ply ids. Answering No will set the SSC to Total.

    Fixed the message for global ply ids for "Load Text into Spreadsheet" when the text box is blank. Instead of: "Not a directory", it will show "The list of global ply ids is blank."

    The documentation was updated to explain how to enter multiple data values and to remove values like global ply ids. The documentation was also updated to show global ply ids.

    See Laminated Composite Form (p. 78) in the MSC Patran Reference Manual, Part 5: Functional Assignments for more information.

  • 9CHAPTER 1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance

    1.2 Supported Hardware Platforms

    Vendor OS Levels Chipset Support HW SupportGraphics Support

    HP (PA-RISC)

    HP-UX 11.0HP-UX 11i (11.11)

    PA8000 PA8200 PA8500 PA8600PA8700 PA8800PA8900

    PA8000: C160, C180, J280, J282, PA8200: C200, C240, J2240,PA8500: C360, B1000, B2000, C3000, J5000, J7000PA8600: C3600, J5600, J6000PA8700: C3700, C3750, J6700, J6750PA8800: C8000, PA8900: C8022

    Visualize: FX2 Pro, FX4 Pro, FX6 Pro, FXE, FX5 Pro, FX10 Pro, FireGL-UX, FireGL X1, T2, X3

    HP (IA-64)* HP-UX 11i 1.6 (11.22)HP-UX 11i 2.0 (11.23)

    Intel Itanium 2 I2: zx2000, zx6000 ATI FireGL 4, FireGL X1, FireGL Z1

    SUN Solaris 8Solaris 9Solaris 10

    UltraSPARC UltraSPARC II UltraSPARC IIi UltraSPARC IIIUltraSPARC IIIi

    Ultra 1, 2, 5, 10, 30, 60, 80SunBlade 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500

    Creator3D, Elite3D, Expert3D, XVR 500, XVR 600, XVR 1000, XVR 1200

    Intel Windows 2000 SP3Windows XPWindows XP SP2

    Pentium IIPentium IIIPentium 4Xeon AMD Opteron

    Compaq: W4000, W6000, W8000Compaq Laptop: N800c, N800wDell: Work. 410, 610, 220, 420, 620, 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, 380, 450, 470, 530, 650, 670Dell Laptop: M50, M60HP: Visualize NT (p-class, x-class), xw4000/xw5000/xw6000/xw8000, xw3100/xw4100 xw4200/xw6200/xw8200IBM: IntelliStation Z-Pro, M-Pro, E-Pro, A-ProFujitsu/Siemens: CelsiusSUN: W1100z, W2100z

    3DLabs: Wildcat III 6110, Wildcat VP 560, Wildcat VP 870, Wildcat IV 7110, 7210, Realizm 100, 200, 800ATI: FireGL 8700/8800, Fire GL E1, X1-128, Z1-128, T2-64, T2-128, X2-256, VS3100, VS100, Mobility Radeon (N800 Laptops)HP: fx5+, fx10+NVIDIA: Quadro2 EX, Quadro4 700XGL/750XGL/900XGL/980XGL, Quadro4 500/700 GoGL (M50/M60 Laptop), FX330, FX500, FX1000, FX1100, FX1300, FX3000, FX3400, FX4000

    Intel LINUX Red Hat 9.0Red Hat Enterprise 3.0, 4.0SuSE 9.0, 9.1, 9.2

    Pentium II Pentium III Pentium 4Xeon AMD Option

    Dell: 220, 420, 620, 330, 340, 350, 360, 370, 450, 470n, 530, 650, 670nHP: Visualize NT (pL-class, xL-class), x-classIBM: IntelliStationSUN: W1100z, W2100z

    ATI: FireGL 8700/8800, FireGL X1NVIDIA: GeForce 256, GeForce2 GTS, Quadro2 Pro, Quadro2 EX, Quadro4 700XGL/900XGL, FX-3400

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    For a complete description of these configurations, see Required Hardware & Software Configurations (Ch. 2) in the MSC Patran Installation and Operations Guide.

    SGI IRIX 6.5.186.5.196.5.21

    R5000 RM5200 R8000 R10000 R12000R14000

    Indigo 2, Indy (R5000), Onyx2, Origin, O2, Octane, Octane 2, Fuel

    Solid IMPACT, High IMPACT, CRM, SI, MXI, SE, MXE, V6*, V8*, V10*, V12*

    SGI SGI Advanced Linux Environment with SGI ProPack 3 SP5

    Intel Itanium 2 Prism FireGL X3

    IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 POWER POWER2 POWER3 POWER4 PowerPC

    RS 6000 - 3AT, 3BT, 3CT, 37T, 397, 42T, 42W, 43P, 44P, IntelliStation Power 265, 275

    GXT800M, GXT800P, GXT2000P, GXT3000P, GXT4500P, GXT6500P

    * Hewlett Packard is no longer selling HP-UX Itanium 2 based workstations and the continued availability of key third party applications for these systems is unclear. As a result, support of MSC Patran on this platform may be discontinued in future releases.

    Vendor OS Levels Chipset Support HW SupportGraphics Support

  • 11CHAPTER 1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance

    1.3 Supported CAD Access HP

    (PA-RISC) HP

    (IA-64)SGI SUN

    IBM RS/6000

    Windows 2000 / XP Linux

    2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006

    CATIA V4 4.2.4 4.2.4 4.2.4 4.2.4 4.2.4 4.2.4*

    *For MSC Patran 2006, a CATIA CATXPRES (.cat) file can be imported. The CATIA to Parasolid translator is available. The CAT Direct Translator which runs CATIA in batch mode is not available.

    CATIA V5 V5R16 V5R14 V5R16 V5R16 V5R16

    Pro/ENGINEER

    The p3_ProE and p3_ProENGINEER executables are built using Pro/ENGINEER version 2000i and therefore will not work with earlier versions of Pro/ENGINEER. p3_ProE and p3_ProENGINEER Access allows reading of .geo geometry transfer files generated from other OS installs of Pro/ENGINEER Access.

    Wildfire 3.0

    Wildfire3.0

    Wildfire 3.0

    Wildfire 3.0

    Wildfire 3.0

    Wildfire 3.0

    Wildfire 3.0

    Unigraphics

    UG NX 3.0 is not available on the SGI IRIX platform. UG NX supports only 64 bit machines for HP and SUN Platforms.

    NX3.0 NX2.0 NX3.0 NX3.0 NX3.0 XMT**

    **Only Parasolid (transmit file) import is supported in this release. Parasolid transmit files generated on other OS platforms can be imported on LINUX.

    Parasolid 16 16 16 16 16 16 16

    ACIS 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0 15.0

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    1.4 Analysis Preferences Tested in MSC Patran

    Note: Limited access to other Preferences is allowed in MSC Patran in order to import results or analysis decks for conversion to MSC Nastran.

    Solver Platforms Solver Version

    MSC Nastran All 2006

    Marc All 2005 r3

  • 13CHAPTER 1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance

    1.5 Product Defect CorrectionsBelow is a list of reported defects or other minor enhancements and changes known to be resolved in this release.

    CR # Abstract

    1-20160333 Optimization jobs with a large number of design variables may fail.

    1-35379891 F1 Key help hook up for Named Regions and Hierarchical Groups

    1-34853810 Inappropriate messages listed to user interface at startup.

    1-34853431 Value for MSC_MEM is way too small. Should be something like 50,000,000 words so that BDF import does not run out of memory.

    1-34210287 Unable to create freebody plot with very long subcase names.

    1-33812652 Crash while previewing Connector after import of BDF file

    1-33262691 Error in XY plotting contact body with null results

    1-33144621 When importing MSC.Marc .t16, Results Filtering doesn't work.

    1-33139188 Failure to update HP-UX 11.0 Database (Interbase).

    1-33094157 Activate Utilities menu by default automatically.

    1-32829031 Crash while doing the post-processing jobs with ABAQUS ODB results.

    1-26090407 CFAST created with projection method is automatically converted into axis method.

    1-25974142 PCL Tracebacks filtering through results subcases

    1-25862177 res_utl_extract_nodal_results2 returrns invalid data for nodes without results

    1-25451797 Crash when creating a CWELD element

    1-25376213 Global variable x-y plot gives wrong results

    1-25295835 Form design problems with create/fastener

    1-25206980 Form design problems with create/fastener

    1-25128913 Broken Form: Input Data for Load/BC in a Time-Dependent Loadcase

    1-24897947 Cannot un-hilight Connectors

    1-24851607 Load Cases: Button & Form labels not consistent

    1-24593555 The Materials application does not allow materials imported from EMV to be modified.

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    1-24076859 Experimental Data Fitting does not find files if directory has "not show extensions" activated.

    1-23952547 Cfastener nodes getting equivalenced and unable to verify

    1-23860131 Documentation - OPS Guide change/addition for stacksize unlimited, to avoid Nastran-bdf-create error

    1-23756715 Cannot import bdf file containing CWELD

    1-23659625 Properties/Show does not list any available properties to show in the Existing Properties box

    1-23657981 Materials Enterprise - Update does not work properly, material data corrupted

    1-23648391 The value and label of Graph are inconsistent.

    1-23613406 Crash while importing the parasolid xmt file

    1-22865321 [AIX V13-123 or 124] in hardware mode only, Loads/Bcs Create/Contours Plot/Pressure causes crash.

    1-22709491 Support CASI Solver External Sparse, #9, in MSC.Marc Preference.

    1-22608665 Value for 'Circle Radius' is not remembered

    1-22605754 Ranges - new or deleted ranges don't appear in listbox unless it is closed and reponed.

    1-22596764 RBE2 imported twice leads to corrupted RBE2 definitions

    1-22565089 Enable "Text Scale" in Page Setup

    1-22514271 Can not break solid

    1-22317151 Crash with cweld - gridid - sptype q import on Windows only

    1-22321234 Problem with plot sets and selected components of tensor plot

    1-22272001 Y-label being reset when new GV results selected or tool change in XY Plot.

    1-22244837 Cannot read a bdf file if the NSM (nonstructural mass) is a negative number.

    1-22225370 After importing a CATIA V5 Part file and closing the database, crashes upon re-opening.

    1-22025587 uil_imaging_coordframes.unpost_all( ) only works if display coordinate frame menu is open

    1-21964081 Wrong mass calculated

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    1-22000681 WORK HARD is not written with Implicit Creep (no table format)

    1-21914197 Apply' button for Analysis > Interactive and Analysis > Restart are hardly visible in Nastran pref.

    1-21783765 CONTROL data block 4 for Coupled analysis: can't change default values.

    1-21675181 Need to allow Arbitrary beam to allow centerline definition.

    1-21663647 If Nastran preference is not installed, new databases cannot be created using template.db

    1-21605710 Application region is not cleared after creating an element property

    1-21535601 LBCs for Parasolid lost by dbconvert

    1-21518771 Sheetbody mesher is dependent of view

    1-21433846 Element Properties/Show list box contains "Please Hide Me " entry

    1-21392817 Heat transfer mass density not written to input deck for HYPOELASTIC

    1-21297791 Add support for DRA model import of piezoelectric elements 160-164.

    1-21271191 Ranges - tolerance percentage shows as XXX% for all zero values

    1-21265024 Ranges - Copy or Delete does not work if the Select Range listbox is closed

    1-21265001 Ranges - Copy or Delete give incomplete error message if no range is selected

    1-21263972 Add maxshear 2d (and other 2d options) to the choices for "derive scalar options from" tensor option

    1-21232301 Continuous fringe plots are incorrect in certatin cases

    1-21189106 Edit/Surface/Add Hole causing crash

    1-21152628 Cannot modify Contact if the name is changed

    1-21134133 Wrong graph if Y-GLOBAL_VARIABLE has a null value.

    1-21128411 3D contact with Analytic option, SPLINE option data not written to input file

    1-21115731 Title/Subtitle text not included in the result case selectbox

    1-21024531 Problem with the set current form of the group hierarchy

    1-20995286 Output request for cross section - variables of CSOUT not written out

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    1-20934411 The user interface of the group hierarchy allows to set a child to be the new parent of its parent

    1-20649701 Blank lines in BCTABLE should contain + in the first column

    1-20602401 Error w/ Db_Count_Elements_in_Region() when the # of elements is zero

    1-20552611 Names are not imported from bdf comments

    1-20545731 Crash while writing Nastran input deck on Windows

    1-20533848 Memory unfreed when using the nurb translator.

    1-20436380 PCL tracebacks invoking nastran SOL200 jobs

    1-20403984 Range creation and reuse not functioning.

    1-20293291 ASM2 on SGI. The Edit menu is incomplete

    1-20294051 P-Shape Rectangle not lined up with reference coord frame that had been rotated

    1-20280439 Geometry > Show > Point > ..> "Total in model" function gives wrong answers

    1-20285901 Button of "Show LBC/El.Prop.Vectors" is turned off.

    1-20273471 Patran Unigraphics import failed if UG and Patran are installed on the same machine.

    1-20257086 MSC.Marc Preference, pre-state option does run if T16 is not in the current directory

    1-20255661 Incorrect Nodal Results Heat Flux output for applied Heat Flux Time Table

    1-20251215 Create/Surface/Offset causes crash

    1-20246549 Incorrect assignment of properties to elements on file import of MSC.Nastran *.dat file.

    1-20248354 xplus_catiav5 broken on SGI Prism.

    1-20217181 Crash when it reads PLOAD4 (CID Distributed Load)

    1-20217505 AIX: properties form garbles after close/re-open of database.

    1-20212934 SOL 600 - Patran must convert rigid body LBC name to upper case when created to be seen in postproc

    1-20209121 Erroneous label in Job Specific Nodal Results Template

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    1-20204311 Experimental Data Fitting: computes different values after selecting "Optional Parameters...".

    1-20183991 ADAPT GLOBAL option does not written completely when Element Type 3(PlaneStress) is used

    1-20161353 Enhancement: identify nodes for cwelds, tools list

    1-20160184 Enhancement: check duplicate cweld

    1-20143884 nasfimp fails for cwelds if node offset is defined

    1-20142811 Analysis Manager: files larger than 2GB are listed with a negative size.

    1-20137161 Wildcat Realizm 500, crashes while playing performance.ses

    1-20122661 [3xr] HP-UX: import > 2GB op2: Unable to open the specified OUTPUT2 file

    1-20111391 Group Hierarchy Problem

    1-20110950 Group Hierarchy menu breaks

    1-20096620 Fringe range Lable does not change if a new fringe is created from the results menu

    1-20092431 Ease of use issues when dealing with a large number of contact bodies

    1-20080027 PCL tracebacks when modifying h-groups

    1-20075449 Hierarchy H-group creation does not populate parent group name

    1-20055012 Coincident node selected as -1 with entity highlighting and auto execute -- sun solaris

    1-20045816 Importing the bdf file twice crashes on Windows

    1-20029369 Analysis Manager opens new windows for each run

    1-20028391 Support FREE capability of TABLED1 fields

    1-20004821 LBCs: wrong inertial rotational acceleration written - support FIXED ACC & ACC CHANGE

    1-19981000 Write utility functions for Marc LBC translation with the table format

    1-19949594 Unable to read all of the attached bdf file

    1-19902954 Node not found error during group transform

    1-19890761 Problem to import a file with INCLUDE

    1-19883491 Add Attach d3plot option to nastran structural

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    1-19859911 Total load - sum of forces does not equal applied load

    1-19820799 VKI beam solver has limit of 256 points. Customer needs more.

    1-19811091 DRA: Automatic deletion of remeshed elements and groups

    1-19798440 Problem with CATDirect v4 import (no XPLUS)

    1-19789798 Picking elements, AIX 5.1.0, "-1" entered in list box, ok for PC

    1-19783651 Error during install of Direct Parasolid Translator Update

    1-19758026 Incorrect *SURFACE definition for 3d gasket faces - ABAQUS preference

    1-19731363 A database lookup failed to locate the target index key (096)

    1-19720164 Unable to stitch surfaces in with ASMII (2005r2-096)

    1-19675761 ProE import to Parasolid: Missing face

    1-19669441 Design Study: Design study Selection is changed to "unselect" if the user does not want to overwritt

    1-19649041 CONTACT: Allow rigid tria elements (new to Marc 2005r2)

    1-19555720 Optim: Create/Design Study/Design Study Setup: Picking any existing Objects, select is not marked

    1-19504731 Utilities/display shell thickness create empty TMP group

    1-19503901 Select Filters icon trouble

    1-19469900 CONTACT: Support for feature angle/outline selection for SPLINE

    1-19433089 LBCs: fixed displacement with different reference position

    1-19367427 Edit solid boolean failed

    1-19326851 New Local Adaptive Methods

    1-19075584 LBCs: Support Follow Force LBC for POINT LOADS

    1-19061121 LBCs: Missing Support for Reference Position of Fixed Displacements

    1-18934271 Can't compute node distance

    1-18919277 CONTACT TABLE: needs an export capability

    1-18919218 CONTACT TABLE: form is not resizeable

    1-18919173 CONTACT TABLE: does not display sufficient contact body names vertically (row-wise)

    1-18916363 Edit > Surface > Break > by Curve function creates degenerate surfaces.

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    1-18892391 Function ASM_CONST_COORD_3POINT needs to output the coord label for the modified coord frame.

    1-18870851 Export BDF with over 8 column node id

    1-18832693 Abaqus restart run writes NSETs, ELSETs and constraints, causing analysis to fail

    1-18819581 CONTACT TABLE: Hard-Soft / Bias Fctr / Frict Stress Limit / Slide Off Length support

    1-18789071 SOL600 needs both Nastran and Marc Prefernce to work

    1-18736391 Edit/surface/primitive form being populated

    1-18677778 Journal file that causes crash "sgm_edit_surface_extend"

    1-18617631 UG Import: If Unigraphics module not installed, import will causes Patran to seemingly hang

    1-18494544 Need Label Font control on create/marker result plots

    1-18468433 Can not use User Subroutine 'FLUX' on Marc preference.

    1-18264701 MPEG recording. cannot play back session file

    1-18103020 Some surfaces fail to import correctly from IGES file

    1-18082405 Doesn't write out MPCs with some *TRANSFORMed nodes

    1-18043101 The function of "Auto Align Orientations" works incorrectly

    1-18042402 Crash by Surface/Break/2Points

    1-17999621 Create/Surface/Fillet creates bad surfaces with colinear points

    1-17961901 Crash creating surface / fillet

    1-17750704 Only jpeg images can be created with the plot sets print option

    1-17749202 To run a contact analysis without friction you must edit the input deck

    1-17675110 CONTACT TABLE: enhanced visual contact table support

    1-17613291 Results Plot Sets form has default action set to Print

    1-17039508 Enhance "selected group" option in the nastran preference to the Abaqus preference

    1-16922301 CONTACT TABLE:Better message for Steps that reference LCs with different # of contact bodies

    1-16383301 LBCs: enable subroutine FORCEM functionalty

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    1-15841613 Abaqus Pref: Data checking needed for Input Properties form.

    1-15603834 Breaking a closed surface on a seam with a closed loop fails

    1-14980304 CONTACT TABLE: setup in marc preference is not user friendly

    1-14724008 CTRIAX elements can not be read from xdb or op2

    1-14664229 Refit of simple shaped brep solid creates disorted parametric solid

    1-14405513 Must be able to create Marker Plot for Scalar Values in core Patran

    1-13504913 Mass properties not working on this parasolid geometry

    1-13486242 [UG] [UGS IR: 4850060] UG sewing causes failure of import.

    1-13244225 Support top/bottom for shell elements similar for POINT FLUX

    1-12869330 Exported iges surface fails to import back in to PATRAN

    1-12884201 Incorrect transverse shear in CTRIA6 element

    1-11236622 Documented method for creating tetrahedron doesn't work

    1-10861410 Export To Parasolid & IGES Crashes Patran

    1-10827301 Direct CATIA V4 access fails on IBM/RS6K

    1-10495808 "Loads-BC/Heat Source/Element Uniform" is not supported

    1-10101813 Curve normal to chained curve - error close to vertex

    1-10022104 Enclosure is ghosted

    1-9997306 pat3aba should report error when IRS, ISL, INTER ... elements are present when V6.X input is created

    1-9895322 LBCs: Support RELEASE NODE as an LBC

    1-8607906 Loads/BCS/Pressures: Add to Application Region takes minutes

    1-6619201 Supporting Load Type(IBODY) 2 "Uniform volumetric flux"

    1-6045802 Running fields_create with large array seems to fail

    1-5993761 Customize Results Title name

    1-5893135 In File - Print of XY plot, not possible to elmiminate black background

    1-5568304 Enhancement: more control over results title;color

    1-5061661 Allow the application region of and LBC to reference a property set or a group

    1-4838405 The ambient element is not supported in NASTRAN thermal preference

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    1-3650903 Customer would like the ability to change the font/size of the text used the spectrum/titles used ..

    1-3379316 Wants to be able to stop a patran animation "mid-build"

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  • I N D E XMSC Patran Release Guide

    I N D E XMSC Patran

    Release Guide

    A

    ACIS, 11AIX, supported OS levels, 10Arbitrary Beam, 2

    CCAD Access

    Interop R16, 6CAD systems

    Access, 11Supported, 11

    CATIA V4 (CAD), 11CATIA V5 (CAD), 11Contact, 4Contact Table, 4

    DDirect access, CAD systems, 11Display Ranges, 7

    EEase-of-use enhancements

    Load/BCs, 9

    EnhancementsArbitrary Beam, 2CAD Access, 6General, 7Marc, 4MSC Nastran, 2MSC Nastran Nodal Based Convection, 2MSC Nastran Total Heat, 2Named Application Regions, 7Ranges, 7

    HHardware, supported OS levels, 9Highlights, MSC Patran 2006, 2HP

    CAD access, 11Supported OS levels, 9

    IIBM RS/6000, 11IBM, supported OS levels, 10Intel

    Red Hat Support, 9Supported OS levels, 9

    IRIX, supported OS levels, 10

    LLinux, 11Load/BCs enhancements, 9Loads and Boundary Conditions, 5

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    MMarc Preference

    Contact, 4Contact Table, 4Mulit-physics, 4New or enhanced LBCs, 5

    MSC NastranArbitrary Beam, 2SOL 600, 3Title, Subtitle, Label support, 2

    MSC Patran 2006 highlights, 2Multi-phsyics, 4

    NNamed Application Regions, 7

    OOperating systems, supported, 9

    PParasolid, 11Platforms, supported, 9Preference enhancements, 2, 4Pro/ENGINEER, 11

    RRanges, 7

    SSGI

    CAD access, 11supported OS levels, 10

    SOL 600, 3Sun

    CAD access, 11Supported OS levels, 9

    Supported platforms, 9SuSE support, 9

    UUnigraphics, 11

    WWildfire, 11Windows 2000, 11

    PrefaceList of MSC.Patran BooksTechnical SupportInternet Resources

    1MSC Patran 2006 at a Glance1.1 Key Highlights for MSC Patran 2006MSC Nastran PreferenceMarc PreferenceCAD AccessGeneralMaterials Composite Laminate form Enhancements

    1.2 Supported Hardware Platforms1.3 Supported CAD Access1.4 Analysis Preferences Tested in MSC Patran1.5 Product Defect Corrections1.6 Technical Support