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It is important to document the source of the material data stored in Patran. To facilitate this, Patran Materials Enterprise has a method to write a formatted set of textural comments to an application defined location.
For integration with Pro/ENGINEER, for example, this results in comments in the trail file. The comments include:
• Date/time
• Data source
• Units
• Material reference
• Identifiers
• Any parameters to the mapping functions (such as expanded search selections)
• Mapped values w/ mapping expressions, units, and footnotes