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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.
Entity Editor
Use the Entity Editor to review and modify all entities within a model, streamlining the solver deck setup process.

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What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2024.1.
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.
- Basic Browser Operations
  Learn the basics of working with browsers.
- Browser Preferences
  Define browser preferences.
- Entity Editor
  Use the Entity Editor to review and modify all entities within a model, streamlining the solver deck setup process.
- Entity State Browser
  Use the Entity State Browser to set various states for entities in a model.
- Demo Browser
  Use the Demo Browser to quickly access and open demo model files available in the installation.
- Media Browser
  Use the Media Browser to search, display, and edit media file data within the current session.
- Model Browser
  Use the Model Browser to view, edit and control the display of all contents of a model.
- Parameters Browser
  Use the Parameters Browser to parameterize the contents of a session file or report template and automate a variety of analysis processes.
- Plot Browser
  Use the Plot Browser to search, display, and edit plot data within the current session.
- Reference Browser
  The Reference Browser enables you to quickly understand complex relationships between different entities that constitute the model.
- Results Browser
  Use the Results Browser to view the results data model structure while providing find, display, and editing control of entities within the current session.
- Session Browser
  Use the Session Browser to view the current session and all the pages and windows it contains in a hierarchical display.
- Solver Browser
  The Solver Browser provides a solver centric view of the model structure in a flat, listed tree structure.
- Table Browser
  Use the Table Browser to search, display, and edit TableView file data within the current session.
- Text Browser
  Use the Text Browser to search, display, and edit text file data within the current session.
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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Entity Editor

Use the Entity Editor to review and modify all entities within a model, streamlining the solver deck setup process.

The Entity Editor is docked in the lower-left corner of the user interface, but you can move it to any available docking area within the application.

Figure 1.

This common Entity Editor displays entity data selected from either a browser or the modeling window. The Entity Editor header denotes the type of entity selected. The Name column displays entity attributes, and their corresponding values are displayed in the Value column. Attributes shown in gray text cannot be edited. Any modifications made within the Entity Editor are automatically applied throughout the entire model.

When you create entities through the Model Browser or ribbons, the Entity Editor opens as a standalone floating dialog.

To access the Entity Editor:

Use the View menu.
Use the shortcut Shift+E.
Double-click on an entity in the browser or in the modeling window.

In the modeling window, the right-mouse button context menu Edit option is only available when the Entity Editor is off. Since you can select an entity and edit its data in the Entity Editor, the Edit context menu option is removed when the Entity Editor is on.
Double-click on an entity in the modeling window to:
- Open the Entity Editor and respective browser if both are not open.
- Open the respective browser if the Entity Editor is open.
- Enter the context tool if it is supported for editing for the selected entity.
The Show in Browser context menu option has been added to the modeling window for all entities.
- For named entities, it invokes the respective browser and highlights the selected entity in the entity list.
- For unnamed entities, it invokes the respective browser and pushes the selection of the selector (when the overall entity count is above the threshold) for listing in the browser.
The Edit context menu option in the Entity Editor now expands the embedded Entity Editor instead of invoking a floating Entity Editor.

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