MSC Nastran Thermal > Getting Started - A Guided Exercise > 2.3 Start Patran
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2.3 Start Patran
To begin the Patran modeling session from your workstation’s XTERM window, enter the command
patran
or
patran &
(if you want to run the application in the background).