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Administrative tools to customize your Altair HyperWorks installation.
HgTrans
HgTrans translates solver results files from their native file format to Altair Binary Format (ABF).
Batch Mode
Using HgTrans, you can convert all or a subset of data from a native file format to Altair Binary Format (ABF) via the batch mode process.

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Altair HyperWorks Tools
Administrative tools to customize your Altair HyperWorks installation.
- Altair License Utility
  Use the Altair License Utility to determine a managed Altair Licensing ID, check license usage, borrow licenses, and set up managed Altair Units.
- Altair Compute Console
  Altair Compute Console (ACC) is a utility that allows you to start different Altair HyperWorks Solvers.
- Remote Job Submission
  Remote Job Submission in Altair Compute Console (ACC) is implemented as an alternative to a local run.
- Remote Server User Guide
- AbaqusODB Upgrade
  AbaqusODB UpGrade is a HyperView tool, which upgrades ODB files created in Abaqus 2020 (or earlier) to Abaqus 2025.
- HgTrans
  HgTrans translates solver results files from their native file format to Altair Binary Format (ABF).
  - Launch HgTrans
  - Open a Results File
  - Translate Files
    Methods used to translate files.
  - Batch Mode
    Using HgTrans, you can convert all or a subset of data from a native file format to Altair Binary Format (ABF) via the batch mode process.
  - HgTrans Config File Example
  - HgTrans Config File Example with Tcl Logic
- HvTrans
  HvTrans is a result translator for HyperView that translates solver result files to .h3d files.
- HWTK GUI Toolkit
  The HWTK GUI Toolkit is a resource tool for coding Tcl/Tk dialogs. It contains documentation of the HWTK GUI Toolkit commands, demo pages that illustrate our Altair GUI standards, and sample code for creating those examples.
- Cleanup Utility
  The Cleanup Utility is a script for Windows that removes any custom settings that you may have due to the Altair applications installed.
- Model Identification Tool
  The Model Identification Tool (MIT) is a profile in HyperGraph for fitting test data from frequency- and amplitude-dependent bushings to analytical models. The MIT operates in conjunction with HyperGraph, MotionView and MotionSolve to provide you with a comprehensive solution for modeling and analysis.
- Register HVPcontrol
  Register HVPcontrol registers the HVP ActiveX control for HyperView Player.
- HyperWorks Automation Toolkit
  The HyperWorks Automation Toolkit (HWAT) is a collection of functions and widgets that allows an application to quickly assemble HyperWorks automations with minimal effort and maximum portability.
- H3D Validation Tools
  The H3D Validation Tools available are H3D Info and H3D Validate.
- Uninstall
  Use the Altair HyperWorks Products Uninstaller to remove all files from the installation directory.

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Batch Mode

Using HgTrans, you can convert all or a subset of data from a native file format to Altair Binary Format (ABF) via the batch mode process.

To start a batch mode process, do one of the following:

On Windows, run hgtrans.exe in a DOS command prompt
From a Unix shell, use hgtrans.

If you do not specify complete arguments in the command line, the defaults will be used. The hgtrans.exe is located in the following directories:

Windows: <install_directory>\hwdesktop\hw\bin\win64\
Unix: /altair/scripts/

Table 1.
Option/<Parameter>	Description
-a	Translates all results to an ABF file without a configuration file.
-c<config file>	The name of the configuration file(s). -c<config file> and -c [space] <config file> are equal.
-help or -h	Help.
-o<output file>	The name of the ABF output file.
<result file>	The name of the result file.
-tho	Translates ODB results into an ABF file with only Time History Output -tho.
-z [percent]<None\|Standard\|High>	Amount of lossless zlib compression. This does not effect load time in HyperGraph but does slow down the HgTrans translation.

No options launch the HgTrans GUI.