Welcome
What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2026.
- 2026 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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PAM-CRASH Interface

New Features

PAM-CRASH Sets (Group keyword) Migrated to the New Infrastructure

This migration allows you to create and edit sets quickly and efficiently.

The Group keyword set can be directly created without needing to create ‘set of sets’ selecting entities.
Multiple Sub objects can be referred to the Group keyword with different types of entities.
Range selection without upper and lower bounds has been implemented for sets containing nodes, elements, and parts.
SEG and EDG are mapped to the Set Segment.

New Generic Impact Workflow

Use this tool to define impact points on any type of structural part, automatically position any type of impactor, and automatically export ready-to-run solver decks. For more details, see the Safety Tools release notes.

Enhancements

Penetration check with solver output functionality has been extended to implicit solver output, which uses the IRMV=-2 option in contact for adjusting local contact thickness. Support for reading the solver output of contact type 43 (edge-to-edge) has been added.
The new keyword Multi-Block Contact Input is now supported.

Seatbelt Tool: The Full-Mesh Slipring option, which is accessible from the Seatbelt Browser > Create context menu, has been enhanced to use an embedded simulation for robust, high-quality results.
Figure 1.

Resolved Issues

Modular parts MPART/ are now selectable in a penetration check embedded algorithm for checking penetrations and intersections.
Inconsistent extra space in GRP names.
Group keyword order is now maintained in the solver deck.
Previously, when importing RUPMO type 11 with a blank space, FILTER=CYCLE was automatically added. This has been corrected. The blank space is now preserved during import and remains blank upon export.
Export issue for MAT Type 143 has been corrected when the optional card ‘OSR and NDP’ is selected and FILTER, INTERP attributes are set to blank.
Issue with set loosing component selection upon importing an include file with $HMCOMP comment with same ID.