In the Patran 2012.2 release, the following Productivity Enhancements were made: Band-in a box 2020 review.

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Productivity Enhancements

• Peruse and manipulate database entities such as materials, properties, loads, boundary conditions, load cases, analysis jobs, etc. in a convenient tree widget available right on the graphics screen
• More convenient icons available allowing single mouse clicks to accomplish tasks
• Entity selection enhancements making selecting graphics entities such as nodes and element even easier
  

Solver Support

• Cohesive Zone Modeling supported for MSC Nastran and Marc Preferences to simulate delamination of different materials or crack growth of homogeneous materials
• Virtual Crack Closure Technique supported for MSC Nastran and Marc Preferences for modeling crack propagation
• Support for new nonlinear element formulations in MSC Nastran Preference and Solid-Shell definitions in Marc Preference
• MSC Nastran and Marc Preference support for the new segment-to-segment contact detection method
• MSC Nastran and Marc Preference support for contact table extensions for detection options such as definition of shell edge-to-edge, shell edge to solid face, beam to solid, and ignoring thicknesses
• MSC Nastran and Marc Preference support for breaking glue contact definition
• MSC Nastran Preference result access and attachment support for the new MSC Nastran OP2 file format
• ANSYS Preference result access support for ANSYS 14 (.rst) results files
• Abaqus 6.12 Support

MSC Fatigue Enhancements

• Simulation of shaker table tests subject to sinusoidal loading for determining fatigue life using
• frequency domain techniques
• Total life or stress-life (S-N) support using the new fatigue solver (DTlib) from nCode
• Strain-life (E-N) support using the new fatigue solver (DTlib) from nCode.