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Multibody Modeling
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
MotionView Ribbons
The MotionView ribbons allows you to quickly access tools and standard functions, and is located along the top of MotionView.
Analyze
Create and edit outputs, create and edit templates, run the solver, view reports, access the Load Export utility, use the Optimization Wizard, open HyperStudy, utilize many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies (or flexbodies), run MS/EDEM cosimulation in batch mode, and generate H3D from EDEM.
Load Export
An external module invoked from MotionView. This module allows you to take loads from an ADAMS run and create a tabular summary file or a Nastran input card for those loads.
Exporting Tabular Summaries and Nastran Input Decks

Welcome
What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2024.1.
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.
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
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
Developer
The Developer ribbon contains tools for automation and customization.
Plot Data
HyperGraph is a data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many file formats.
Multibody Modeling
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
- MotionView Overview
  MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
- Model Browser
  The Model Browser allows you to view the MotionView model structure while providing display and editing control of entities.
- MotionView Ribbons
  The MotionView ribbons allows you to quickly access tools and standard functions, and is located along the top of MotionView.
  - Assembly
    Create and edit systems, assemblies, and analyses, use wizards to build models quickly, create and edit belt/pullies, NLFE stabars, and NLFE springs, access the EDEM and Track Builder tools.
  - Geometry
    Create and edit points, bodies, lines (curve graphics), solids (graphics), markers and vectors, edit grounded/ungrounded bodies, create and edit rigid body groups, configure gravity, and select material properties.
  - Model
    Create and edit various model entities.
  - Analyze
    Create and edit outputs, create and edit templates, run the solver, view reports, access the Load Export utility, use the Optimization Wizard, open HyperStudy, utilize many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies (or flexbodies), run MS/EDEM cosimulation in batch mode, and generate H3D from EDEM.
    - Outputs
      Use the Outputs tool to create a result output request to the solver, which writes out the requested data for plotting data.
    - Templates
      Use the Templates tool to create and edit blocks of text that contain data fields and programming instructions.
    - Run
      The Run tool allows you to run the solution for the current MotionView model using MotionSolve.
    - View Reports
      The View Reports dialog displays a report list of all reports generated from an analysis task run.
    - Load Export
      An external module invoked from MotionView. This module allows you to take loads from an ADAMS run and create a tabular summary file or a Nastran input card for those loads.
      - Load Export GUI
      - Time Step Selection
      - Exporting Tabular Summaries and Nastran Input Decks
        Export a Tabular Summary
        Export a NASTRAN Input Deck
      - Metadata File Generation
        A metadata file is automatically generated when you save the active MDL model as an ADAMS or MotionSolve deck or you run a solver analysis on the active model.
      - Metadata File Format
        The metadata file consists of multiple data blocks denoted by keyword pairs.
    - Optimization with MotionView and MotionSolve
      In the 2024.1 release, MotionSolve has new capabilities for optimizing multibody systems.
    - Using HyperStudy with MotionView
      HyperStudy allows you to perform Design of Experiments (DOE), optimization, and stochastic studies in a CAE environment. It allows you to study the different aspects of a design under various conditions, including non-linear behaviors. It can be applied in the multi-disciplinary optimization of a design combining different analysis types.
    - Flex Prep
      The FlexBody Prep wizard allows you to create the flex H3D file from several sources, including an ADAMS MNF file, a NASTRAN PCH file, and a mirrored H3D file. You can also generate an H3D file using OptiStruct, a finite element analysis solver.
    - Fatigue Prep
      Generates ADAMS output files from a flexbody transient run, which can then be used in nCODE Fatigue software.
    - Run MS/EDEM Cosimulation in Batch Mode
      This tool helps to run the cosimulation in batch mode.
    - Generate H3D from EDEM Results
      This tool helps to convert EDEM particle simulation results to animation H3D that can be visualized in HyperView.
    - Model Identification Tool
      The Model Identification Tool, known as MIT, is a profile in HyperGraph for fitting test data from frequency- and amplitude-dependent bushings to analytical models. This tool operates in conjunction with HyperGraph, MotionView, and MotionSolve to provide you with a comprehensive solution for modeling and analysis.
- MotionView CAD Interfacing
  MotionView supports the importing of several types of CAD and FE formats.
- Flexible Bodies
  MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multibody dynamics models.
- Functional Mockup Unit (FMU)
  Add an FMU to the model or export a model as an FMU.
- Vehicle Modeling
  Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
- Tcl/Tk Reference Guide
  Reference material for the scripting interface which is a set of Tcl/Tk commands.
- MDL Reference Guide
  Reference materials for the MotionView MDL Language, Tire Modeling, and the MDL Library.
- MotionSolve Reference Guide
  Reference material detailing command statements, model statements, functions and the Subroutine Interface available in MotionSolve.
- Templex and Math Reference Guide
  Reference material for Templex (a general purpose text and numeric processor) and additional mathematical functions and operators.
- MotionView Python Reference Guide
  Reference materials for the MotionView Python Language.
Media Files
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
Tabulate Results
Use TableView to create an Excel-like spreadsheet.
Text Files
TextView math scripts reference vector data from HyperGraph windows to automate data processing and data summary.
Publishing and Reporting
Create, define, and export reports.

Exporting Tabular Summaries and Nastran Input Decks

From the Export panel in the Load Export utility, you can set the labels and node IDs for Nastran export.

If you select one or more bodies for Nastran export and then select the Nastran option on the Export panel, the Nastran Options button is enabled. Click this to display the Nastran Export panel.

Figure 1. Load Export dialog – Export panel

From this panel, you can enter and select the following information required to output a Nastran input deck:

Format (short or long)
FEA coordinate system (global or local)
Determine if coordinate cards should be written in the Nastran input deck
Select the point from which you want to auto-number node IDs for Nastran export
Nastran Node ID names and numbers
Nastran deck format
The reference frame in which the GRID cards are written