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building your model using copying or ?

Thread starter gherghi
Start date Jul 22, 2005

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Jul 22, 2005

gherghi

Structural

I am a new user of Patran. My structure is repeated many times. I want to use copy/paste type operation to build the entire model. What is the best way of doing this so that all element/material properties are retained. All my elements are beams and plates.