Why MSC NASTRAN and PATRAN  still remains the only choice for Stress Analysts?

• Four hundred and twenty of the Fortune 500 manufacturing companies in the world choose to work with MSC Software.
• MSC Nastran is the world’s most widely used Finite Element Analysis (FEA) solver.
• When it comes to simulating stress, dynamics, or vibration of real-world, complex systems, MSC Nastran is still the best and most trusted software in the world. Many of the most complex, most innovative, and mission critical products in the world are designed using MSC solutions. 
• MSC Nastran is built on work done by NASA scientists and researchers, and is trusted to design mission critical systems in every industry.
• Nearly every spacecraft, aircraft, and vehicle designed in the last 40 years has been analyzed using MSC Nastran.
• Patran is the world’s most widely used pre/post-processing software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), providing solid modeling, meshing, and analysis setup for MSC Nastran, Marc, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, and Pam-Crash.
• Patran provides a rich set of tools that streamline the creation of analysis ready models for linear, nonlinear, explicit dynamics, thermal, and other finite element solvers.
• From geometry cleanup tools that make it easy for engineers to deal with gaps and slivers in CAD, to solid modeling tools that enable creation of models from scratch, Patran makes it easy for anyone to create FE models.
• By Use of Patran, Meshes are easily created on surfaces and solids alike using fully automated meshing routines (including hex meshing), manual methods that provide more control, or combinations of both. Finally, loads, boundary conditions, and analysis setup for most popular FE solvers is built in, minimizing the need to edit input decks.
• Patran’s comprehensive and industry tested capabilities ensure that your virtual prototyping efforts provide results fast so that you can evaluate product performance against requirements and optimize your designs.
• Patran is the leading pre- and post processor for CAE simulation. The program’s advanced modeling and surfacing tools allow you to create a finite element model from scratch. You can also take advantage of Patran's advanced CAD access tools to work directly on your existing CAD models.
• With direct access, Patran imports model geometry without modifications. No translation takes place, so your CAD geometry remains intact. After geometry is imported, you can use Patran to define loads, boundary conditions, and material properties. 
•  Patran offers complete integration with MSC Software analysis solvers, including MSC Nastran, Marc, Dytran and MSC Actran. What’s more, an open architecture allows you to completely integrate Patran to work with in-house or third-party analysis programs.
• As a post-processor, Patran quickly and clearly displays analysis results in structural, thermal, fatigue, fluid, magnetic terms, or in relation to any other application where the resulting values are associated with their respective finite elements or nodes.
• Patran is the de-facto standard for linking design, analysis, and results evaluation in a single, seamless environment with following Benefits:
  · Reduce cost by replacing physical testing with less expensive digital simulation;
  · Standardize on your modeling environment with access to multiple solver technologies;
  · Customize your modeling environment to fit your simulation process. 
  
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