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What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2024.1.
- 2024.1 Release Notes
- 2024 Release Notes
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.
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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New Features

Derived Load Case type Steps: New Steps type has been added to the Derived Load Cases (DLC) workflow.
New Complex Filters for Invariant Calculation: Phase Sweep: available for all invariant (Mag, VonMises, P1, P2, P3, and so on). By selecting this filter, the operator will sweep from 0° to 360° by a delta step of the omega*t angle (which can be set in the post preference and has a 45° default), extract the vector/tensor invariant, and then finally evaluate either the max, min, or extreme value across the whole data set (returning a scalar real quantity).; ClosedForm: available only for Von Mises Stress tensor (without any averaging). The operator evaluates the Von Mises invariant based on its analytical formula assuming no phase shifts among the tensor components.
Lode Param xi and Theta Invariants Added: Lode Param xi and Theta invariants have been added to the Stress related derived ones.

Enhancements

HWASCII results import is now enabled in the results workflow.
A preference option has been added to create default deformation plot on loading results. This option is off by default.
Figure 1.
The Beam Stress workflow has been improved to support native OptiStruct h3d results.
Cartesian and Polar filters (Real/Imaginary Mag/Phase) have been removed in plot controls for derived results (for example: VonMises, P1, and other invariants).
Invariant exposure among Stress and Strain has been aligned as per HyperView:
- Stress: vonMises, SignedVonMises, Tresca, Triaxiality, P1, P2, P3, MaxShear, Intensity, Pressure, max_abs_principal, extreme_principal, lodeparam_xi, odeparam_theta
- Strain: vonMises, SignedVonMises, P1, P2, P3, MaxShear, Intensity, Pressure, max_abs_principal, extreme_principal
The wording of file import messages and other warnings have been improved.
The Result entity context menu from the Model Browser has been cleaned up.
Figure 2.

Resolved Issues

Marker plot now follows deformation during animation.
Memory leak when using a model with very high number of properties has been resolved.