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Essential utility tools developed using HyperMesh-Tcl.
Export Tools
HDF5 Export
Use the HDF5 Export tool to generate a Nastran HDF5 file across the solver.
Model and Result Data Type Support

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What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2024.1.
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Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
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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.
- Assembly Tools
  Create an assembly structure from a .csv file definition.
- Load/BCs Tools
- Connection Tools
- Spatial ID Manager Tools
- Display Tools
- Export Tools
  - HDF5 Export
    Use the HDF5 Export tool to generate a Nastran HDF5 file across the solver.
    - Export a HDF5 File
    - Model and Result Data Type Support
- Set Tools
- System Tools
- Node Tools
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.
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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Model and Result Data Type Support

The .op2 file format is supported for OptiStruct and Nastran.
The .xdb file format is supported for Nastran.
CWELD is not mapped with the result.
Derived result data types are not supported.
Corner data is not supported for the .xdb file (direct strain, direct stress).

Table 1. OptiStruct and Nastran
Config	Sub Type	Model	Result	Result Data Type
SPRING/MASS	CBUSH CELAS1 CELAS2	Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain Element Force,Element Force
SPRING	CDAMP1 CDAMP2 CONM2	Yes Yes Yes	No No No
PLOT	PLOTEL	Yes	No
RBE3	RBE3	Yes	No
RIGID, RIGIDLINK	RBE2	Yes	No
BARS	CBAR CBEAM RBAR	Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain Element Force, Stress, Strain Element Force, Stress, Strain
ROD	CROD CONROD	Yes Yes	Yes Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain Element Force, Stress, Strain
TRIA	TRIA6 TRIAR TRIA3	Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain, Nodal Element Force,Stress, Strain, Nodal Element Force,Stress, Strain, Nodal
TRIA_COMPO	TRIA_COMP	Yes	Yes	Stress, Strain
QUARD	QUAD_CN CQUAD4 QUADX QUADR QUAD_COMP QUAD8	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes	Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain, Nodal Element Force,Stress, Strain, Nodal Element Force,Stress, Strain, Nodal Element Force,Stress, Strain, Nodal Stress, Strain Element Force,Stress, Strain, Nodal
TETRA	CTETRA	Yes	Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain, Nodal
PENTA	CPENTA	Yes	Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain, Nodal
HEX8	CHEXA	Yes	Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain, Nodal
HEX20	CHEXA	Yes	Yes	Element Force, Stress, Strain, Nodal