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Administrative tools to customize your Altair HyperWorks installation.
Altair Compute Console
Altair Compute Console (ACC) is a utility that allows you to start different Altair HyperWorks Solvers.
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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 2018 (or earlier) to Abaqus 2023.
- 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.
- 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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Quick Solver Start via Desktop Icon

In a windowed environment it is possible to drag a file from the File Browser onto the icon (desktop shortcut) representing Compute Console. This will immediately start a simple solver run; no command arguments can be added to such a run; therefore, it is not possible to start an SPMD run this way. The only two arguments appended to the command line in drag and drop run are:

-screen: This run is always executed with Solver View window (no log window exists in such case).
-nt N: It is possible to start the SMP run – only if this option is enabled for drag and drop runs through the Preferences form.

Note: Jobs submitted this way are never queued or stored in the history list. This method of interaction is completely independent from Compute Console.

The Desktop icon or Quick Launch icon can be created on Windows by copying any Solver command from the Framework menu as a shortcut. It is also possible to create such a launcher on Linux - consult your system documentation for details. The actual command field on such a launcher should contain the following text.

<install_dir>/scripts/hw_wish <install_dir>/acc/scripts/hwsolver.tcl -icon

Where, <install_dir> is the top directory path to the Altair HyperWorks installation.