This interface reads the PATRAN database with the model and writes the results onto PATRAN result files.

The modeling is made using custom-made PERMAS preferences. Own solver menus support standard PERMAS solutions from within PATRAN, which may be adapted by the user himself. The following model parts are translated:

• all common elements
• all kinds of loads incl. inertia loads
• all PERMAS kinematic boundary conditions
• sets
• specifications of substructures
• variant definitions

The interface supports the following analysis types:

• linear and nonlinear statics
• contact analysis
• dynamic mode analysis
• thermal analysis
• fluid-structure acoustics (basic modeling and post-processing)

Even for other types of degrees of freedom like electric potential the model may be prepared within PATRAN.