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Administrative tools to customize your Altair HyperWorks installation.
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.
Utils
hwtk::image

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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). This can be done using the HgTrans GUI or via the HgTrans batch mode.
- 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.
  - Base Widgets
  - Compound Widgets
  - Dialogs
  - Miscellaneous
  - Utils
    - hwtk::image
    - hwtk::settings
  - Validation
    The -validate, -validatecommand, and -invalidcommand options are used to enable entry widget validation.
  - Specify File Patterns
  - Write a New Custom Widget
    Steps and examples for writing a custom widget using the toolkit.
- 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.

hwtk::image

Format

hwtk::image - pathName ?option value? …

Commands

-hwtk::image cache image ?arg arg …?: Caches an image from a file into the environment. If a value is given for -name, then the referencing name of the image is that, otherwise it defaults to the name of the file that the image originated from. -state sets whether the image is normal or disabled.
-hwtk::image delete image ?arg arg …?: Removes the image image from the cache of images. If the -force option is provided, the image will be removed even if it is in use elsewhere.
-hwtk::image display ?image?: Displays a dialog showing all currently cached images.
-hwtk::image path ?arg arg ...?: Returns the list of directories where images originated from.
-hwtk::image trim image ?arg arg ...?: Trims the image image to only its non-transparent subsection.
-hwtk::image which image: Returns the path of the file that image originated from.