Patran is a pre/post-processing software for Finite Element Analysis (FEA), providing solid modeling, meshing, analysis setup and post-processing for multiple solvers including MSC Nastran, Marc, Abaqus, LS-DYNA, ANSYS, and Pam-Crash.

Patran is also available by remoting into the CAE linux lab computers:

If the software is not graphical, use SSH https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/80385

If the software is graphical, use ssvnc… There are some limitations we are unable to solve at this time https://kb.wisc.edu/cae/20309