Review of the Analysis Form

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The Analysis toggle on the main menu for MSC Patran brings up the Analysis form which can be used to request an analysis of the model with the SAMCEF finite element program. For details see The Analysis Form (p. 8) in the MSC.Patran Reference Manual. It can also be used to incorporate the contents of a SAMCEF results file into the database. See Read Results.

The following page gives an introduction to the Analysis form used to prepare a SAMCEF analysis. This is followed by detailed descriptions of the subordinate forms that can be displayed from the Analysis form.

Analysis Form

Setting the Action option menu to Analyze indicates that an analysis run is being prepared.

The following table shows the allowable selections for the Analyze action.


Object	Method
Entire Model	BACON File Full Run Interactive Run Unix Computed Files (on W2000 only)

The Method indicates how far the translation is to be taken.


If BACON File is selected	a complete BACON input file is created.
If Full Run is selected	an Analysis Deck translation is done, and the resulting input deck is submitted to BACON and thereafter to SAMCEF which is run in the background.
If Interactive Run is selected	SAMCEF will be run in the foreground, with MSC Patran suspended until the execution is complete.
if Unix Computed Files is selected (on W2000 release only)	the Samcef Preference will generate all the files compatible with an analysis to be performed on UNIX machines. However, no remote computation is launched, so you have to manually move these files to a selected UNIX machine to be able to run SAMCEF on this UNIX machine.

Which files have to be moved to the UNIX machine?


File Name	Description
jobname.dat	This is a BACON “banque” file created by the interface.
jobname_mesh.dat	This is a BACON “banque” file containing only topology. This file is optional: for many jobs, topology is directly included in the ’jobname.dat file’
SAMRUN	This is a UNIX script used to run SAMCEF, generated by MSC Patran.
SAMANSWERS*	These files contain information generated by MSC Patran.