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Morph
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
Shapes
Shapes are collections of perturbations from the initial configuration of the FE mesh before the morph.
Import Shapes
Import saved shapes from a file.

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Connectors
Create connections between parts of your model.
Morph
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
- Morphing Preferences
  Define morphing preferences.
- Morph Constraints
  Morph constraint entities restrict or prescribe the movement of nodes during morphing, with a variety of available methods and dimensional values. These constraints are valid across all available morphing approaches and can be individually activated or deactivated at any time, even in between morphs or applying shapes.
- Free Morph
  Use the Free tool to morph mesh by moving nodes, handles, or domains, by applying shapes, or by mapping to geometry.
- Proximity Morph
  Use the Proximity tool to morph mesh using a simple distance or perturbation value around selected nodes, faces, edges, or shapes.
- Morph Volumes
  Morph volume entities are highly deformable six-sided prisms which surround a portion of the FE mesh, and can be used to manipulate a mesh by manipulating the shape of the morph volume.
- Shapes
  Shapes are collections of perturbations from the initial configuration of the FE mesh before the morph.
  - Create Shapes
    Create and apply morphing shapes. Shapes can be created by morphing or by converting load collectors.
  - Delete Shapes
    Delete selected shapes.
  - Record Node Movements
    Record node movements using other HyperMesh tools and save them as a shape.
  - Animate Shapes
    Animate selected shapes.
  - Convert Shapes
    Convert a shape to node perturbations, handle perturbations, an mvol shape, forces, temperatures, pressures, or displacements.
  - Check or Smooth Shapes
    Use the Check/Smooth function to check the element quality of shape combinations and optionally smooth the shapes to improve the element quality when applied individually or as part of a combination of shapes.
  - Automatically Generate Shapes
    Use the Autoshape function to automatically generate multiple shapes for individual handles or domains.
  - Import Shapes
    Import saved shapes from a file.
  - Export Shapes
    Export selected shapes.
  - Move, Mirror, and Scale Shapes
    The Move, Mirror, and Scale tools all support shapes as a valid entity type.
- Alter Dimensions
  Morph a mesh by selecting a dimension in the model and change its values.
- Domains
  Domain entities divide the model into different domains during morphing.
- Handles
  Handle entities control the shape of domains during morphing.
- Symmetries
  Symmetry entities define planes of symmetry within a model so that morphs can be applied in a symmetric fashion.
- Set Biasing
  Change the biasing factors associated with each handle.
- Map to Geometry
  Map nodes, domains, morph volume edges, or morph volume faces in your model to a line, node list, plane, surfaces, elements, or an equation using edge domains and handles to guide the process.
- Sculpt Mesh
  Mold a mesh with a variety of virtual tools, such as creating hemispherical divots, cone-shaped projections, or molding sections with feature lines.
- Undo All Morphs
  Undo all morphs and return to the original state of the model.
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.
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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.
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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Import Shapes

Import saved shapes from a file.

From the Morph ribbon, click the Shapes tool.

Figure 1.

The Edit Shapes dialog opens.
Click .
The Import Options dialog opens.
Browse for and select a shape file.
Select a shape format option.
- Choose as grids to open shapes in OptiStruct/ Radioss/ Nastran format.
- Choose as shapes to open shapes in HyperMorph format.
Select an import option.

Note: Only available when loading shapes, not grids.
- Choose direct to add only the shape to the model, and determine the new shape as if the original one had been positioned at the same x,y,z coordinates where it was originally saved.
- Choose via elements to add the shape and its corresponding elements to the model.
Select either of the check boxes.

Apply on import

Apply the shapes automatically upon loading.

Auto-envelope

The envelope is the range of influence that a translated, positioned, or reflected shape will have on the new mesh. Since the original mesh (where the shape currently exists) and target mesh may not match exactly, the envelope must be large enough to include nodes that may lie outside the bounds of the original mesh were it to be translated, re-positioned, or reflected on to the target mesh. Nodes inside the envelope will be perturbed proportionally to how close they are to the bounds of the original mesh. If you are using auto-envelope and the copied shape is not affecting all of the nodes that you want, try switching to a manually determined envelope and typing in a value. The default envelope is equal to the average length of the sides of the elements in the shape. Type in a larger value to capture more nodes within the envelope. Similarly, if too many nodes are being affected, try using a smaller envelope. You may also use a very large envelope (a million times the size of an average element) to make sure that the shape is applied to nearby nodes at full value.

Note: Only available when loading shapes, not grids.
Click OK.