PCL and Customization > Accessing the Patran Database > Introduction
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Introduction
The last step in developing an application interface to Patran is to create translators which will communicate model and results information from the Patran database to the application and from the application to the Patran database. Access to the database is required in order to create these translation programs. The functions which allow this access by extracting data from and placing data into the database are described below. These functions are organized into the following categories:
• Miscellaneous Database Functions
• Groups
• Nodes
• Coordinate Frames
• Patran Element Topology Codes
• Elements
• Association between Elements and Element Properties
• Element Properties
• Data Fields
• Material Properties
• Load Cases
• Loads
• Multi-point Constraints
• Importing Results
Examples of simple translators which extract information from a database and write the data to a file or read data from a file and place it into a database are provided.
The database querying program, QLI, can be very helpful in developing user applications or translators. Refer to Querying the Patran Database (p. 447) in the PCL and Customization for more information on this program.