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Analysis is the gateway between the Patran preprocessing and postprocessing environments and the various analysis codes that you can use to analyze a model and generate results. MSC Software provides numerous proprietary Application Modules, and also provides Preference interfaces to several popular commercial analysis codes.
In addition, Patran supports custom development of interfaces to third-party or in-house analysis codes using customization tools such as PCL.The level of integration between the Analysis application and the solver codes is identical for application modules, application interfaces, or user-developed interfaces.
Once you have completed building and defining your analysis model, and you have chosen an analysis code, you are ready to complete several steps required to actually submit your model to an analysis code and prepare for postprocessing the results. This chapter introduces concepts, definitions, and application examples to illustrate those steps.
Brief Overview of Analysis Steps
Following are some basic tasks that will be part of any analysis run:
• Select an analysis code.
• Identify a desired solution type.
• Select a sequence of load cases.
• Select a desired output.
• Submit the analysis.
• Read results files back into Patran, or attach a results file in order to postprocess the results.