The Analysis form will appear when the Analysis toggle, located on the Patran main form,
is chosen.

Read Results as the selected Action allows you to read results data into the Patran database from an ANSYS results file, or to access ANSYS results directly from the ANSYS results file (ANSYS Revision 5 and up only). For ANSYS Revision 4.4A, the results file name can be “jobname12.dat”, for a binary (FILE12) file, or “jobname14.dat” for a text (FILE14) file. For ANSYS Revision 5, the results file name can be “jobname.rst” for a structural analysis results file, “jobname.rth” for a thermal analysis results file, or “jobname.rmg” for a magnetics analysis results file.

Other Analysis forms are used to define translation parameters and select the ANSYS results file. These forms are described on the following pages.

This form appears when the Analysis toggle is selected on the main form. When Read Results is the selected Action, the type of data to be read from the analysis code results file into Patran is defined.

In some cases, the translation will not be able to write the data directly into the Patran database. In those cases, a text file will be created. This file contains instructions as to how this data is to be loaded into the database. This file can be transferred between computers if necessary, then read into the proper database using the File Import functionality. The full functionality of this form is described in Importing Results (p. 195) in the Patran Reference Manual.