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Create, organize, and manage parts and subsystems.
The pdmsyscfg.xml file defines system behaviors for Altair HyperWorks PLM connectors. The pdmsyscfg.xml file supports background processes, file-type recognition, revision checks, dataset mapping, encoding schemes, and more.
Key configuration settings for OpenPDM connector users.
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Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Learn more about the Altair HyperWorks suite of products with interactive tutorials.
Start and configure the applications.
View a list of deprecated panels and their newer, equivalent workflows.
Create, open, import, and save models.
Set up sessions and create report templates.
Solver interfaces supported in HyperMesh.
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
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.
Create and edit 2D parametric sketch geometry.
Create, edit, and cleanup 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.
Explore the different types of mesh you can create in HyperMesh and create and edit 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements.
Also referred to as Postgres, PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system with emphasis on extensibility and standards compliance.
Key configuration settings for Siemens Teamcenter™ connector users.
Key configuration settings for PTC™ Windchill connector users.
This section configures the search queries available for retrieving objects from OpenPDM. These queries are used in the UI to find and display Item Revision Business Objects (BOs) and their associated metadata.
Set up the UDM to PDM mapping files: plmxml_udm_config.xml, wc_udm_config.xml, openpdm_udm_config.xml, and ap242_udm_xml.
Configure and register Altair Webjects for use with Windchill.
Learn how to update Java security certificates for HyperMesh using the keytool utility that comes bundled with HyperMesh's Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
Use the automotive section library for rapid concept development in the early phases of the vehicle design process.
Use the Organize tool to move or copy entities into their proper destinations.
Automatically group selected parts into part sets based on comparison method and criteria selected.
Set up and use machine learning (ML) models to automatically classify parts under user-defined labels and into part sets.
Use the Renumber tool to review and organize the IDs of model entities.
Change the order of named entities in database.
Manage the IDs for the entities that you create, and define ID ranges for the entities in each Include file in order to avoid ID duplication across files.
Use the Reps tool to perform representation operations for parts and subsystems.
Scenarios are a mechanism to apply controls to engineering entities.
Create and articulate a kinematic mechanism based on FE mesh using the Mechanism Browser.
Compare and update a current HyperMesh session with an incoming model and generate comparison results.
Use the Overlay tool to superimpose a second representation as overlay onto the current (session's) representation and inspect their differences.
Perform automatic checks on CAD models, and identify potential issues with geometry that may slow down the meshing process using the Verification and Comparison tools.
Local coordinate systems can be used for setting up loads/boundary conditions that do not act in the global axis direction, transforming results, defining material orientation, and many other operations.
Define vectors in 3D space.
Define physical and mathematical characteristics of parts.
Import materials directly from the Altair Material Data Center (AMDC).
Automatically distribute masses on nodes, properties, or parts to match user-defined target mass and center of gravity (COG).
Use the Auto Contacts tool to determine contact interfaces between selections of components or elements. Based on the user-specified options like proximity tolerance, surface creation method, main surface type, and secondary type, the tool generates contacts based on set segments or node and element combinations.
Create, review, and edit RBE2/RBE3 elements and MPC equations.
Use the curve editor to create and plot XY curves.
The Abaqus solver offers the flexibility of modeling rigids as surfaces using primitive geometry.
HyperMesh composites modeling.
Create connections between parts of your model.
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
Create a reduced ordered model to facilitate optimization at the concept phase.
Workflow to support topology optimization model build and setup.
Setup an Optimization in HyperMesh.
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
Validate the model built before running solver analysis.
Models require loads and boundary conditions in order to represent the various physics and/or physical equivalents to bench and in-use testing.
Reduce a full 3D model with axisymmetric surfaces while accounting for imperfections.
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.
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
Use airbag folder utilities and export a resulting airbag in a Radioss deck.
Essential utility tools developed using HyperMesh-Tcl.
Import an aeroelastic finite element model with Nastran Bulk Data format.
Framework to plug certification methods to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
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 can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
The Developer ribbon contains tools for automation and customization.
Plot data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperGraph.
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
Use TableView to create an Excel-like spreadsheet.
TextView math scripts reference vector data from HyperGraph windows to automate data processing and data summary.
Create, define, and export reports.
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