johnhors, thanks for the quick answer!
I have Abaqus/CAE, Hypermesh and Patran available. I tried out CAE but got frustrated by it's logic; I cannot particulary name it. Hypermesh I just briefly looked at; probably I should try it again.
The point is that our project partners use Patran &...
I'm using MSC.Patran 2005 as preprocessor and Abaqus 6.5 as solver (on Windows XP). My problem is that Patran generates Abaqus input files (.inp) with errors. I'm aware of that and Patran also notifies it ( <input_file_name.msg.0[n]> ) with messages like:
*** ERROR: <RBE2> MPC type is not...
Hi Iesbad2 and JakeLiv,
thank you very much for your answers!! I expected it is possible to do this inside of Patran and didn't think about this option.
The point is that I open Patran sometimes from the desktop, the Windows start menu or in the working directory. Then I got confused why the...
I work with MSC.Patran 2005 and and MD Nastran as a solver on Windows XP. Can anybody tell me how to specify/change the output directory in Patran for jobs submitted to Nastran (.f06, .bdf, .xdb files). In my case it's always written to ~\MSC.Patran\bin. I find it quite unlogically and would...
