This subordinate form appears when you click on the Translation Parameters button on the Analysis form.

Patran allows you to define numbering offsets for IDs associated with model entities. To invoke this feature, you click on the Numbering Options button on the Translation Parameters form.

Note that both the Patran Neutral file reader and the Patran MD Nastran input file reader preserve the IDS of named entities with a “.” syntax, so that an MD Nastran PSHELL entry of ID 12 will be assigned the name “PSHELL.12.” This last option allows great continuity between input model data and output model data. This option is ON by default, and the default Syntax Marker is “.”