Patran Release Guide


		General Enhancements 2.1 Implicit Nonlinear (MD Nastran SOL 400) 2.2 New Nastran DRA Capabilities MD Nastran Solid Shell, 2D Axi-symmetric and Plane Strain Large Strain Element Support NLSTEP and BOLT vs. MBOLTUS Bulk Data Entries Contact Body Master-Slave Control Via Alphanumeric Name Ordering NLPARM Convergence Control for Linear Contact 2.3 Set Current Working Directory 2.4 Shaded Background Used For Non-MD Patran How to Control The Background Effects of New Databases How to Change The Background Effects of the Current Viewport 2.5 New GUI Skins Overview Application Icon Ribbons Quick Access Bar Skins Installation Options 2.6 Native 64 Bit Port Tips and Tricks for Manipulating Large Models in Patran 2.7 SimManager 2010 Integration (Linux/Windows) 2.8 Patran Help on the Web 2.9 ABAQUS Preference Enhancements 1D Pressure Elements Inertia Loads on 0D (point) Elements Support for RBE2 and RBE3 2.10 Auto Select Picking 2.11 Shareware MechPat FEM-Elements -Regular Cube Mesher 2 Solid Sphere Mesher Campbell Diagram Utility 2.12 MD Nastran Student Edition 2.13 Customer Requests