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What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2025.1.
- 2025.1 Release Notes
- 2025 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 in HyperMesh and HyperView
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
Developer
The Developer ribbon contains tools for automation and customization.
Plot Data in HyperMesh and HyperGraph
Plot data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperGraph.
Multibody Modeling in MotionView
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
Media Files in MediaView
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
Tabulate Results in TableView
Use TableView to create an Excel-like spreadsheet.
Text Files in TextView
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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Safety Report Manager

New Features

The following load cases and modules are now supported:

Seat Impact Load Cases

Whiplash load case for EURO-NCAP, CNCAP, FMVSS 202a, JNCAP, and KNCAP regulations.
Energy Dissipation and Static Headrest Test load cases for AIS 016, ART 18b, ECE R17, FMVSS 202a-5, GB 14167, and KMVSS 103 regulations.
Seat Belt Anchorage Description module, as part of the ECE R14 regulation.
Luggage Retention module, as part of the ECE R17 regulation.
ADR Description module for seats, as part of the ADR regulation.
ISOFIX module for seats, as part of the ECE R14 regulation.

Occupant Modules

EuroNCAP FAR Side Occupant Assessment, for side impact.

Enhancements

The Contour Plot module now supports custom legend styles and a new page for FLD.
A new HyperGraph default file is now supported, specifically for the Overlay functionality. Use this to control the curve legend attributes, such as visibility and legend position, when performing the Overlay process.
The Postscript functionality contains new option to change the line style per layer from the session files loaded in HyperGraph.
The Luggage Retention module can now capture animations (MP4 format) when generating a report.
The Loadcase Description module now accepts additional inputs for Pulse/Load and Dummy/Test equipment.
The Energy Dissipation module now includes a summary table for each run containing the clip 3ms and 80g values.
The Safety Report Manager can now either Append or Overlay the results and the slides in a PowerPoint file report during the Overlay process.
The Safety Report Manager supports DIAdem (*.dat) files for physical test data.
Time stamp information is now displayed in all animations.

Known Issues

The following known issues will be addressed in a future release:

Input validation check is not supported for the Battery Section Force and BOM modules.
The Load Path, Run Statistics, and Weld Failure modules are not supported for the Radioss and PAM-CRASH solvers.

Resolved Issues

For contour plots, missing layer information for Effective Plastic Strain.
PowerPoint slide titles are not aligned to the left.
In the Run Statistics summary table > Run Name field, now only the file name is displayed to avoid overflowing the cell.