Review of the Analysis Form

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The Analysis form appears when you select Analysis from the main form. To run an analysis, or to create an NASTRAN input file, select Analyze as the Action on the Analysis form. Other forms brought up by the Analysis form are used to define translation parameters, solution types, solution parameters, output requests, and load cases. These forms are described on the following pages. For further information, see The Analysis Form (p. 8) in the MSC.Patran Reference Manual.

This form appears when you select Analysis from the main menu. When preparing for an analysis run, select Analyze as the Action.

The following table outlines the selections for the Analyze action.

Object	Method
Entire Model	Full Run Check Run Analysis Deck Model Only
Current Group	Full Run Check Run Analysis Deck Model Only
Existing Deck	Full Run

Object

Method

Entire Model

Full Run

Check Run

Analysis Deck

Model Only

Current Group

Full Run

Check Run

Analysis Deck

Model Only

Existing Deck

Full Run

The Object indicates which part of the model is to be analyzed. There are three choices for thermal analysis: Entire Model, Current Group, and Existing Deck.

Entire Model	Indicates that the whole model is to be analyzed.
Current Group	Indicates that only part of the model is to be analyzed. To do this, you create a group of that part, confirm that it is the current group, then select Current Group as the Object. For more information, see The Group Menu (p. 270) in the Patran Reference Manual.
Existing Deck	Means that you wish simply to submit an existing input file to MD Nastran. To form the input filename, Patran appends the suffix “.bdf” to the jobname appearing in the Job Name listbox. This file must reside in the current directory.

Entire Model

Indicates that the whole model is to be analyzed.

Current Group

Indicates that only part of the model is to be analyzed. To do this, you create a group of that part, confirm that it is the current group, then select Current Group as the Object. For more information, see The Group Menu (p. 270) in the Patran Reference Manual.

Existing Deck

Means that you wish simply to submit an existing input file to MD Nastran. To form the input filename, Patran appends the suffix “.bdf” to the jobname appearing in the Job Name listbox. This file must reside in the current directory.

Full Run	Is the selected type if an Analysis Deck translation is performed, and the resulting input file is submitted to MD Nastran for complete analysis.
Check Run	Is the selected type if an Analysis Deck translation is performed, and the resulting input file is submitted to MD Nastran for a check run only.
Analysis Deck	Is the selected type if the Model Deck translation is performed, plus all load case, analysis type and analysis parameter data are translated. A complete input file, ready for MD Nastran, will be generated.
Model Only	Is the selected type if a Bulk Data file is created that contains only the model data including node, element, coordinate frame, element property, material property, and loads and boundary conditions data. The translation stops at that point.

Full Run

Is the selected type if an Analysis Deck translation is performed, and the resulting input file is submitted to MD Nastran for complete analysis.

Check Run

Is the selected type if an Analysis Deck translation is performed, and the resulting input file is submitted to MD Nastran for a check run only.

Analysis Deck

Is the selected type if the Model Deck translation is performed, plus all load case, analysis type and analysis parameter data are translated. A complete input file, ready for MD Nastran, will be generated.

Model Only

Is the selected type if a Bulk Data file is created that contains only the model data including node, element, coordinate frame, element property, material property, and loads and boundary conditions data. The translation stops at that point.