Patran Release Highlights
2011
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Patran 2011
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Patran 2011 Overview
• Productivity Enhancements
• Analysis Manager Enhancements
• SuperModel Capabilities Into Core
• CAD Updates
• Solver Support
• 3rd Party Results
• Sinda Preference Enhancements
• MSC Fatigue Upgrades
• Durability Icon Ribbon
• DTLIB Based – Spot, Seam Weld and Duty Cycle
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Analysis Manager Enhancements
Additional AM functionality
addressed in this project:
• QueMgr crash recovery
• Nastran SOL 600 checks
• RTESTs run thru AM
• Heavy network load performance
• Staging host submittal
• Windows 7 support
• Install/uninstall updates
• Interactive job support
• Marc “ncpus” support
• P3Mgr staging host file mapping
• rdb QueMgr database
• New Text - Based Installer
• PrxyMgr close socket
• New GUI – Based Installer
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3rd Party Solver Support Update
• Abaqus Direct Results Access
Upgrade
• Update to the Abaqus Preference
post-processing libraries to support
Abaqus Version 6.10
• ANSYS Direct Results Access
Upgrade
• Support ANSYS 12 and prior
results
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CAD Interoperability
• Description
• Update to the Spatial InterOp
libraries to the R21 Version
• Benefits
• Support for CATIA V5 R20
• Support for Pro/E Wildfire 5
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Super-Model Integration
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Patran 2011
SuperModel Integration into Core Patran
• Many of SuperModels capabilities
have already been incorporated into
core Patran. This effort simply
completes that effort.
• Brings useful capabilities into
Patran without having to develop
them from scratch
• New core capabilities are
preference specific and integrated
into standard menus
• An Icon Ribbon already exists
• No changes show up if Patran is
opened
with –ifile init_sm.pcl - synchronize
• Supported on all platforms
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Patran 2011
SuperModel Integration into Core Patran
The Following Super Model
Capabilities Were Added To
Core Patran in This
Release:
Under Tools - Modeling
Under Tools - Results
• Load Tools – Load Summation and
Equivalent Vector
• Bar/Spring Force Moment
• Property Data Plots
• Max-Min Sorting
• Mass Property Management
• Shear Panel Plots
• Model Contents
• Element Quick Create
• Bar End Loads
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Patran 2011
SuperModel Integration into Core Patran
The Following Super Model
Capabilities Were Added To
Core Patran in This
Release:
Under Tools - Results
• Bar/Spring Force Moment
• Bar End Loads
• Max-Min Sorting
• Shear Panel Plots
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Aero Heating and Aero Convection
Loading Enhancements in MSC
SINDA Preference
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Link to Thermica Version 4
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Aero Heating and Aero Convection Load Features
• Support all kinds of spatial fields in Patran
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PCL Function
Tabular input
General
FEM
• Support all kinds of coordinate systems
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Real (x, y, z)
Parametric (C1, C2,C3)
• Support time or temperature dependent
tables
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Time (t)
Temperature (T)
• The table can be managed under Field
forms
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Non-Spatial Velocity (v) for temperature table
Non-Spatial User-defined (UD) for time table
Support User-defined Session file
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•
create customized spatial fields or tables
process user’s text files
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Aero Heating and Aero Convection Loads
Features
PCL functions
100*mth_sinr(mth_sqrt('X**2 + 'Y**2)-7*3.14159/4.0)
400*(1-mth_abs(1-'X))*(0.5-mth_abs('Y-0.5))
100*(2-'X)*(1-'Y)
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Recent MSC Fatigue Enhancements
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Overview - Recent MSC Fatigue
Releases
• MSC Fatigue 2010 Release – (Q2
2010) First Production 64 bit Version
• MSC Fatigue 2010.2.3 Release - (Q1
2011) Key Defect Corrections
• MSC Fatigue 2011 Release – (Q2-Q3
2011) with New nCode DTLib
Functionality and Durability Icon
Ribbon
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Recent Large Model Enhancements
for MSC Fatigue
• Description
• Production release of Windows
64-bit Platform
• Support for Linux 64-bit if
platform regression and quality
testing meet expectations.
• Dytran Support for 64-bit
• Dytran was not supported in the
2008 r2 Pre-Release.
• Benefits
• Access more memory while
working with Very Large Models.
• Capable of processing files that
are >2 GB
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New MSC Fatigue 2011 Durability Icon Ribbon
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MSC Fatigue – Spot Weld, Seam
Weld, Duty Cycle
Begin transition to current nCode DTLib Library with:
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Spot-Weld improvements – FKM Mean Stress
Corrections
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Seam-Weld improvements – Volvo Method (force) –
Weld Root & Weld Throat Failure Predictions
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Seam-Weld improvements – Interpolation between
“stiff” and “flexible” S/N Curves
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Enhanced Duty-Cycle Analysis
To access the DTLIB algorithms you need to set the
Fatigue env variable: FAT_USE_DTLIB=YES
The default is no.
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