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Design Explorer
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
Evaluate
Use the Evaluate tools to run the exploration and review reports.
Review Results
Use the Results Explorer tool to review results.
Preview Generative Design Concepts
Once an exploration is complete, review generated concepts.

Welcome
What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2025.1.
Get Started
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Tutorials
Learn more about the Altair HyperWorks suite of products with interactive tutorials.
Startup Procedures and Customizations
Start and configure the applications.
Tool Finder
View a list of deprecated panels and their newer, equivalent workflows.
Manage Files and Data
Create, open, import, and save models.
Sessions and Report Templates
Set up sessions and create report templates.
Interface with External Products
Solver interfaces supported in HyperMesh.
Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
Browsers
Browsers provide a structured view of model data, which you can use to review, modify, create, and manage the contents of a model. In addition to visualization, browsers offer features like search, filtering, and sorting, which enhance your ability to navigate and interact with the model data.
Sketching
Create and edit 2D parametric sketch geometry.
Topology
Create, edit, and cleanup geometry.
FE Geometry
FE geometry is topology on top of mesh, meaning CAD and mesh exist as a single entity. The purpose of FE geometry is to add vertices, edges, surfaces, and solids on FE models which have no CAD geometry.
Meshing and Elements
Explore the different types of mesh you can create in HyperMesh and create and edit 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements.
Model Build and Assembly
Create, organize and manage parts and subsystems.
Composites
HyperMesh composites modeling.
Connectors
Create connections between parts of your model.
Morph
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
Skeleton Modeling
Create a reduced ordered model to facilitate optimization at the concept phase.
Design Space
Workflow to support topology optimization model build and setup.
Optimization
Setup an Optimization in HyperMesh.
Design Explorer
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
- Open the Design Explorer Browser
  The Design Explorer Browser displays a hierarchical view of your design setup and can be used to enable and disable exploration parameters.
- Explorations
  An exploration is a multi-run simulation. Each exploration includes input design variables, and output responses. Explorations may also include goals, consisting of one or more objectives and constraints.
- Input Design Variables
  An input design variable is a system parameter that influences the system performance in the chosen output response. Typical design variables may be a part's thickness, shape, or material property. Ranges, with lower and upper bounds, are specified and the variable's value will vary within the exploration. The terms input, input design variable, and design variable are used interchangeably.
- Output Responses
  An output response is a measurement of system performances, such as mass, volume, displacement, stress, strain, or reaction forces.
- Objectives
  Objectives are metrics to be minimized or maximized in an optimization exploration. Minimizing mass to find a lightweight design is a common example.
- Constraints
  Constraints need to be satisfied for an optimization to be acceptable. Constraints may also be associated with a DOE. While not used in the evaluation of the DOE, constraints can be useful while visualizing DOE results. Limits on displacement or stress are common examples.
- Review and Edit Design Parameters
  Review the explorations, inputs, responses, and goals in your design setup.
- Evaluate
  Use the Evaluate tools to run the exploration and review reports.
  - Evaluate Explorations
    Export files to the output directory then run the exploration simulations.
  - Terminate Explorations
    Stop a simulation and cancel any runs that are pending or in progress.
  - Review Results
    Use the Results Explorer tool to review results.
    - Review Exploration Summaries
      Once an exploration is complete, review a summary of design variable and output response values in tabular format.
    - Preview Generative Design Concepts
      Once an exploration is complete, review generated concepts.
    - Compare Design Variable Values
      Visualize differences in design variable values between any two exploration runs.
    - Visualize Linear Effects
      Visualize the relative effects that design variables and output responses have on DOE explorations.
    - Visualize Trade Offs and Predicted Results
      Predict response values or entire results from different design variable choices.
    - Visualize Scatter Plots
      Plot exploration inputs and outputs.
    - ExpertAI
      Optimization using unsupervised machine learning, group exploration results according to user-specified criteria.
    - Train a Classifier
    - Visualize Evaluation Plots
      Plot a 2D chart of the input variable and output response values for each run in an Optimization exploration.
    - Visualize Iteration Plots
      Plot the iteration history of an Optimization exploration's objectives, constraints, input variables and unused output responses in a 2D chart.
Validate
Validate the model built before running solver analysis.
Analyze
Models require loads and boundary conditions in order to represent the various physics and/or physical equivalents to bench and in-use testing.
Axisymmetry
Reduce a full 3D model with axisymmetric surfaces while accounting for imperfections.
Concept Modeling
Tools and workflows that are dedicated to rapidly creating new parts for specific use cases, or amending existing parts. The current capabilities are focused on stiffening parts.
Crash and Safety
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
Airbag
Use airbag folder utilities and export a resulting airbag in a Radioss deck.
Aerospace
Essential utility tools developed using HyperMesh-Tcl.
Aeroelasticity
Import an aeroelastic finite element model with Nastran Bulk Data format.
Certification
Framework to plug certification methods to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
PhysicsAI
Use PhysicsAI to build fast predictive models from CAE data. PhysicsAI can be trained on data with any physics or remeshing and without design variables.
Results Data in HyperMesh and HyperView
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
Developer
The Developer ribbon contains tools for automation and customization.
Plot Data in HyperMesh and HyperGraph
Plot data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperGraph.
Multibody Modeling in MotionView
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
Media Files in MediaView
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
Tabulate Results in TableView
Use TableView to create an Excel-like spreadsheet.
Text Files in TextView
TextView math scripts reference vector data from HyperGraph windows to automate data processing and data summary.
Publishing and Reporting
Create, define, and export reports.

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Preview Generative Design Concepts

Once an exploration is complete, review generated concepts.

From the Design Explorer ribbon, Evaluate tool group, click the Results Explorer tool.

Figure 1.

The Results Explorer Browser opens.
In the Results Explorer Browser, click Preview.
The Preview shows preview images of each concept generated by the Generative Design exploration.
Optional: Use the filters on the left side to filter the concepts by design variable values.
Optional: Click a preview image to view the selected concept’s attribute values in the table at the bottom.
Optional: Select the check box for one or more concepts and click Compare.
A new page is created, and the selected concepts are loaded into individual HyperView clients for inspection and comparison.
Optional: Select Feasible runs to view only concepts with no constraints violated in their Topology Optimization.
Optional: Switch from Variables to Concepts.
Using Artificial Intelligence, concepts are grouped into concept families. This can be useful when sorting through many generated concepts.
1. Change the number of concept families to create different family groupings.
2. Click on individual concept families to see a list of which runs comprise a given family.
3. Select the check box for one or more concepts and click Compare.
  A new page is created, and the selected concepts families are loaded into individual HyperView clients.
4. Play the animation or cycle through the animations to review each run (concept) in the families.