This section suggests the optimization type, method, and criterion to be selected for commonly used analysis codes. For analysis codes not listed below, please refer to the code vendor for a recommendation.

Note that the choice of method and criterion may depend on the structure of your model and type of analysis (static vs. dynamic). As a result, the recommendations given below are suggested only as guidelines.

Most of the commonly used analysis codes have their own built-in optimizers which internally renumber the nodes or elements. These codes are marked with an asterisk(*) in the following table. The external IDs do not change. There are a couple of advantages to using the code specific optimizers.

However, there are cases where the Patran optimizer does a better job than the code specific optimizer.