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Results Data
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
Results Data in HyperView
HyperView is a complete environment to visualize, query, and process results data.
Create Entities
Create and edit user-defined data type expressions, derived load cases, and systems. You can also plot a forming limit diagram, generate streamlines, track entities during animation, and create and import/export sets of entities.
CFD Post-Processing
HyperView offers CFD post-processing capabilities for a large class of industrial applications.
Creating a Vector Plot on a Cross Section

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.
- Results Data in HyperMesh
  Direct integration of native results readers into HyperMesh allows you to perform results visualization on the model.
- Results Data in HyperView
  HyperView is a complete environment to visualize, query, and process results data.
  - Working with Models
    Open animation files, measure various distances and angles between entities, and use the Results Browser to view the model structure and find, display, and edit entities.
  - Animate and Visualize Results
    Create section cuts and explore the various result plotting tools.
  - Create Entities
    Create and edit user-defined data type expressions, derived load cases, and systems. You can also plot a forming limit diagram, generate streamlines, track entities during animation, and create and import/export sets of entities.
    - Create Derived Results
      The Expression Builder is a graphical user interface which allows user-defined data type expressions to be authored directly within HyperView.
    - Derived Load Cases
      The Loadcase tool allows you to create a derived load case from other load cases, or from a combination of other load cases and simulation steps.
    - Systems
      Create your own user defined coordinate systems or select result coordinate systems.
    - FLD
      Use the FLD tool a plot a Forming Limit Diagram (FLD) based on a material Forming Limit Curve (FLC) and the major and minor strain output results of a forming simulation.
    - CFD Post-Processing
      HyperView offers CFD post-processing capabilities for a large class of industrial applications.
      - Streamlines
        Use the Streamlines tool to generate streamlines using any available nodal or elemental vector field (typically a velocity field).
      - Creating a Contour on a Cross Section
      - Creating Iso Surfaces and a Contour Plot with Different Result Types
      - Creating a Vector Plot on a Cross Section
    - Tracking
      Use the Tracking tool to track any entity during animation.
    - Sets
      Use the Sets tool to create, import, and export sets/groups of components (parts), elements, and nodes.
  - Query Data
    Query entities, create or edit free body diagrams, construct multiple curves and plots from a single result file, and create and plot stress linearization.
  - Annotate Models
    Annotate animation files using notes or trace various entities during animation.
  - Transform Models
    Define planes of symmetry/axisymmetry or explode a model.
  - Overlay Images/Videos
    Select and overlay images or videos in the modeling window for correlation and presentation purposes.
  - Rendering Models
    Select a graphics rendering mode and change the appearance of materials.
  - Additional Tools for Post-Processing
    The Tools menu provides you access to various panels and dialogs.
  - Profiles
    Load preference file profiles to access the various Aerospace tools, NVH utilities, and Vehicle Safety Tools.
  - Preferences Dialog
    From the Preferences dialog, you can access various HyperView display options.
  - Display/Visualization Options
    Explore the various display and visualization tools.
  - HyperView - MultiCore
    A new workflow emphasizing the multicore profile for standard crash post processing use cases.
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.
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.

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Creating a Vector Plot on a Cross Section

From the Section Cut panel, apply a section cut to the model.
Go to the Vector panel.
From the Result type drop-down menu, select the name of the data type that should be used to calculate the vector plot (typically it is velocity).

Note: Only data types with a vector format are available for you to choose.
Under Selection, select the Sections option from the input collector drop-down menu.
Pick a section.
- Click on the Sections input collector and use the extended entity selection menu to select your desired section.
- Pick a section directly on the model in the modeling window.
Under Resolved in, verify that Global System is selected.

Note: There is an interlock between the Resolved in system and the Advanced Options (Projected and Evenly Distributed).
Optional: For Component, select the X, Y, or Z coordinates from the Plot tab (located in the middle of the panel), if necessary.

For planar section cuts, click the Section tab and select your desired advanced options (advanced options are not currently supported for deformable section cuts):

Option	Description
Projected	Activate the check box to project the vectors to the cross section plane.
Evenly distributed	Activate the check box to evenly distribute the vectors on a cross section by specifying the number of rows and columns (see below). Note: Only first order solid elements on the model are supported by this option (second order elements on the model, parts of shells, and 1D elements are currently not supported).
Number of rows/Number of columns	Enter the number of rows and columns that will be used to evenly distribute the vectors on a cross section. Note: The Evenly distributed option must be activated in order to enable the number or rows/columns options.

Click Apply.
The vector settings are applied to the selected section on the model.
Figure 1.
Use the Graphical Manipulator to modify the definition of section cuts, as well as translate or rotate sections anywhere in 3-D space.

Note: The graphical manipulator is linked to the entity display, therefore if a section cut is not displayed, the display of the graphical manipulator is also turned off. Right-click and select Show Manipulator to display the graphical manipulator in the modeling window.