The following sections describe which specific ANSYS card types can currently be read into Patran.

The ANSYS cards described in this document are the only cards read when importing an ANSYS input file into Patran. All non-supported cards will be ignored. When errors occur during the import of a supported card type, the card being processed may or may not be imported, depending on the severity of the problem encountered. An error message will be presented regardless of whether or not the offending card is actually imported.

Any references from supported cards to cards that were not imported (either due to not being a supported card type or due to serious import errors) will still be attempted. If this reference is required in Patran for the card currently being processed, it too will fail to import. For example, if there is a serious error on a N (node) card which causes it to not imported, then all elements attached to that node will also fail to import.