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MSC Patran® 2006 Installation and Operations Guide Corporate MSC.Software Corporation 2 MacArthur Place Santa Ana, CA 92707 USA Telephone: (800) 345-2078 Fax: (714) 784-4056 Europe MSC.Software GmbH Am Moosfeld 13 81829 Munich, Germany Telephone: (49) (89) 43 19 87 0 Fax: (49) (89) 43 61 71 6 Asia Pacific MSC.Software Japan Ltd. Shinjuku First West 8F 23-7 Nishi Shinjuku 1-Chome, Shinjuku-Ku Tokyo 160-0023, JAPAN Telephone: (81) (3)-6911-1200 Fax: (81) (3)-6911-1201 Worldwide Web www.mscsoftware.com Disclaimer This documentation, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used only in accordance with the terms of such license. MSC.Software Corporation reserves the right to make changes in specifications and other information contained in this document without prior notice. 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P3*V2006R1*Z*Z*Z*DC-OPS CONTENTS MSC Patran Installation and Operations Guide MSC Patran Installation and Opera- tions Guide 1 Introduction & I Introduction, 2 Overview ❑ Who Should Use This Guide, 2 ❑ What This Guide Contains, 2 I Overview of the MSC Patran System, 3 ❑ MSC Patran Pre- and Postprocessor, 3 ❑ Analysis Modules, CAD Access Interfaces, and Preferences, 3 ❑ FLEXlm, 3 ❑ Online Documentation, 3 2 Required I The mscinfo Utility, 6 Hardware & I Memory and General Requirements, 9 Software ❑ Configurations RAM and Swap Guidelines, 9 ❑ Memory and Disk Space Requirements, 9 I Hewlett-Packard HP-UX (PA-RISC) Requirements, 11 ❑ HP-UX Patches, 11 ❑ HP-UX Kernel Settings, 13 - HP-UX Performance Tuning, 14 I Hewlett-Packard HP-UX (Itanium®) Requirements, 15 ❑ HP-UX Patches, 15 ❑ HP-UX Kernel Settings, 16 - HP-UX Performance Tuning, 17 I IBM AIX Requirements, 18 ❑ AIX Patches and Libraries, 19 ❑ Starting the X.11 Window Manager Properly, 20 ❑ Display Environment Variable for IBM Graphics Accelerators, 20 I Silicon Graphics IRIX Requirements, 21 ❑ SGI IRIX Patches and Libraries, 22 ❑ Backingstore and Overlay on SGI Graphics Devices, 22 ❑ Swap Space Configuration for IRIX Systems, 22 I Silicon Graphics Prism (Itanium®/Linux) Requirements, 24 I Sun Solaris Requirements, 25 ❑ SOLARIS Patches and Libraries, 26 I Microsoft Windows Requirements, 27 ❑ Windows C++ and FORTRAN Compiler Requirements, 27 ❑ Tested Systems, 28 ❑ Graphics Boards and OpenGL Acceleration, 28 ❑ TCP/IP Requirements, 29 ❑ NFS Mounted Database on Windows, 29 I Linux Requirements, 30 ❑ Linux C, C++ and FORTRAN Compiler Requirements, 30 ❑ Tested Systems, 31 ❑ Graphics Boards and OpenGL Acceleration, 31 ❑ Graphics Cards for Linux, 31 ❑ Patran fonts, 34 I MSC Patran 3D Graphics Drivers, 35 ❑ OpenGL Hardware Graphics, 35 ❑ 2D Graphics Accelerators, 35 ❑ Potential Color Flashing Problem, 36 ❑ Display Resolution, 36 ❑ Enabling and disabling anti-aliasing on Nvidia graphics cards on Linux, 36 3 Installing MSC I Creating a New Installation, 40 Patran on UNIX ❑ Mounting the CD-ROM, 41 and LINUX ❑ Starting the mscsetup Installation Utility, 43 ❑ Selecting an Installation Device, 44 ❑ Specifying the Installation Base Directory, 45 ❑ Selecting Products, 46 - Additional Product Sets (additional CDs), 46 ❑ Selecting a Product Installation Type, 47 ❑ Product Customization, 48 ❑ License File Setup and Starting a MSC.License Server, 50 ❑ Contract Amendment Form, 51 ❑ Installation Review, 52 ❑ Installation Messages, 53 I Upgrading an Existing Installation, 54 I Optional Steps, 56 ❑ Enabling optimal virtual memory access for MSC Patran, 56 - Hewlett-Packard HP-UX (PA-RISC and Itanium), 56 - IBM AIX, 56 - Silicon Graphics IRIX, 56 - Sun Solaris, 58 - Red Hat Linux, 58 ❑ Installing Spacetec Spaceball for Use with MSC Patran, 58 I UNIX / LINUX Module and Preference Setup, 59 ❑ Analysis Preferences Setup in site_setup file, 59 ❑ MSC Patran Pro/ENGINEER Access Setup, 60 ❑ MSC Patran Unigraphics Setup, 61 - Parasolid Modeling License, 61 ❑ MSC Patran CATDirect Setup (V4), 62 ❑ MSC Patran CATIA v5 Access Setup, 64 ❑ MSC Patran Thermal Setup, 65 - 64 bit Version, 65 ❑ MSC.Flightloads and Dynamics Setup, 66 ❑ MSC.Analysis Manager Setup, 67 ❑ MSC.SuperModel, 68 - File Manager Server, 68 ❑ MSC.Acumen, 70 ❑ MSC Patran Enterprise Materials, 70 ❑ MSC Documentation, 70 4 Installing on I Overview, 72 Microsoft I TCP/IP Setup, 73 Windows 2000/XP I Creating a New Installation, 74 ❑ Selecting MSC Patran Components, 76 ❑ Silent Installation, 78 ❑ Installation log file, 78 ❑ The p3_trans.ini configuration tool, 78 ❑ MSC.Licensing Installation (Optional), 79 I Upgrading an Existing Installation, 80 I Windows Optional Steps, 81 ❑ Changing Fonts on Windows, 81 ❑ Printing on Windows, 81 ❑ Installing Spacetec Spaceball for Use with MSC Patran, 81 I Enabling more than 2.0 GB of memory access for MSC Patran, 82 ❑ Modify boot.ini File, 82 I Setting the Startup Directory, 84 I Module and Preference Setup, 85 ❑ Analysis Preferences Setup in p3_trans.ini, 85 ❑ MSC Patran Pro/ENGINEER Access Setup, 86 ❑ MSC Patran Unigraphics Setup, 87 - Parasolid Modeling License, 87 ❑ MSC Patran Thermal Setup, 88 - Microsoft .NET 2003, 88 - INTEL C/C++ and Fortran, 89 - General Installation Notes, 89 - 64 bit Version, 89 ❑ MSC.Flightloads and Dynamics Setup, 90 ❑ MSC.Analysis Manager Setup, 91 - Manually configuring MSC.Analysis Manager, 93 ❑ MSC.SuperModel, 95 - File Manager Service, 95 ❑ MSC.Acumen, 97 ❑ MSC Patran Enterprise Materials, 97 ❑ MSC Documentation, 97 I Uninstalling, 98 5 User Environment I Environment Variables, 100 ❑ UNIX Environment Variables, 100 ❑ Windows Environment Variables, 100 - The Site Setup and User Setup files, 101 - The Site Setup file, 101 - The User Setup file, 101 - The Overwrite Flag, 101 I UNIX Application Resources and Fonts, 109 I LINUX Window Manager Settings, 111 ❑ Gnome, 111 ❑ KDE, 111 I The *.pcl and *.def Setup Files, 112 ❑ The settings.pcl File, 112 ❑ The p3epilog.pcl File, 115 ❑ Definition Files, 115 I Command Line Arguments, 116 I UNIX Shell Resource Limits, 118 I The PDB Database System, 119 ❑ Upgrading Databases, 119 ❑ Creating Custom Template Databases, 120 - Create Custom File from base.db, 120 ❑ Moving Databases Between Platforms, 121 ❑ MSC Patran Database Caching and Swapping, 122 ❑ MSC Patran Custom Database Conversion, 123 6 Problems & I Startup Failures and Fatal Errors, 126 Resolutions I Errors in Functions and Opening Databases, 127 I Import/Export, Analysis Submit and Online Documentation, 131 I Cosmetic Problems and Frequent Questions, 132 I FLEXlm and Licensing Problems, 134 ❑ General FLEXlm Troubleshooting, 134 ❑ FLEXlm Common Problems and Resolutions, 135 A Installing the I Overview, 148 MSC.License I Installing the MSC.License Server Using a New UNIX Server, 149 Server ❑ Obtain an MSC Patran License File for Your Server, 149 ❑ Place the License File on the Server, 149 ❑ Check Paths and Server Names in the license.dat File, 149 ❑ Start the Manager Daemons, 152 ❑ Set the lmgrd Daemon to Execute on Reboot, 152 ❑ Set Up Clients to Access the Floating License, 152 I Installing MSC.Licensing Using a New Windows Server, 153 ❑ Obtain an MSC Patran License File for Your Server, 153 ❑ Place the License File on the Server, 153 ❑ Using Lmtools.exe to Configure FLEXlm, 153 ❑ Set Up Clients to Access the Floating License, 153 I Replacing Codes on an Existing UNIX Server, 154 ❑ Edit the