Help:Nastran and Patran
From MMAE
MSC.Nastran is software that allows you to assess many functional aspects of your products, such as the structural response (displacement, strain, stress, vibration, temperature) due to its material properties and the loads and boundary conditions that are applied to it during operation.
MSC.Patran is a general purpose CAE simulation solution for interactive, 3D modeling and visualization of engineering analysis results.
- Vendor homepage
- http://www.mscsoftware.com/
- Software homepage
- Software availability
- License expired, no plans to renew
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Unix and Windows - command to type to run
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- patran
- graphical user interface for pre/post processing
- nastran
- non-interactive solver that can be run in batch mode.
- View online documentation
- Some documentation is in the Patran help menu.
- Examples and tutorials
- http://www.mscsoftware.com/products/example_problems.cfm
- http://www.mscsoftware.com/university
