Altair HyperMesh

New Features

New Mass Balance Workflow

The Mass Balance tool can be used to automatically distribute masses on nodes or properties, to match user-defined target mass and CoG of selected properties.

Enhancements

Unit Conversion

Support of /BEGIN card attributes and engine keywords has been added.

Contacts

Description of /INTER attribute Istf in the Entity Editor is updated to the description used in HyperCrash.

On creation of a new contact, /INTER/TYPE19 is created per default and not more /INTER/TYPE1.

Model Checker

New Warning, Constraints with unresolved main or secondary entity, to detect /MERGE/RBODY with unresolved element ID or unresolved node ID has been added.

Keywords Support

Support of /FAIL/TSAIHILL has been added.

Support of /FAIL/TSAIWU has been added.

Support of /FAIL/HOFFMAN has been added.

Support of /FAIL/ORTHENERG has been added.

Support of /FAIL/MAXSTRAIN has been added.

Support of /MAT/LAW120 has been added.

Support of /MAT/LAW122 has been added.

Support of /MAT/LAW124 has been added.

Support new variable ERODED and HEAT in /TH/PART and /TH/SUBS has been added.

Support of new attribute Edge_scale_gap in /INTER/TYPE19 has been added.

Support of new attribute Fcut in /FAIL/PUCK has been added.

Support of new attributes Icomp and Ecomp in /MAT/LAW83 has been added.

Support of new attribute VP in /MAT/LAW2 has been added.

Support of new attributes EC and RPCT in /MAT/LAW66 have been added.

Support of new attribute value ILaw=-1 in /MAT/LAW69 has been added.

Support of new attribute Alpha in /MAT/LAW90 has been added.

Support of new attribute FCUT in /MAT/LAW104 has been added.

Support of new curves attributes fct_ID5i in /MAT/LAW113 have been added.

Support of new attribute value Fsmooth=2 in /MAT/LAW36 has been added.

New attribute FAILIP in /FAIL/CHANG has been added.

Support of new attributes Fcut, IDEL and EPSMAX in /MAT/LAW79 have been added.

Support of new attribute value Ifail=3 in /FAIL/HC_DSSE has been added.

Support of new attributes NU and IForm in /MAT/LAW95 have been added.

Resolved Issues

• TETRA10 and BRIC20 solid elements are now selectable in /TH/BRIC keyword Entity Editor.
• The issue for rigid body collectors when reading /SUBMODEL with ID offsets has been fixed.
• The issue in detecting /SENSOR/HIC and /SENSOR/DIST_SURF as empty has been fixed.
• The issue when reviewing /INTER/TYPE11 has been fixed.
• The issue in reading attributes of /PROP/BEAM and /PROP/TRUSS due to non existing Beamsection has been fixed.
• The export issue for attributes gap_max_m and gap_max_s in /INTER/TYPE25 has been fixed.
• The segmentation error when reviewing /MERGE/RBODY with unresolved node ID referred has been fixed.