Altair Engineering Solutions 2022.1 Release Notes

Aerospace 2022.1 Release Notes

As part of the migration of tools available in the HyperWorks Aerospace pull-down menu, this release removes the Composite category completely.
Connections "Fastener Setup" and "Stuck nodes" are still available in the menu but are superseded by the Connector workflow.

Figure 1.
The StiffenedPanelMesh tool is migrated to a new workflow available on the Concept ribbon.

Accessing Tutorial Model Files: You can now click a link, within a tutorial, to download the required model file(s) for that tutorial.; Important: This download option is only available if you (or any user) are connected to the internet. Users attempting to download a model file will be prompted with further directions on how to access the model file online. A zipped package of the model files can be downloaded from the Altair One Marketplace and extracted to a local machine or directory on your company’s local server.

The Marine ribbon is no longer available in HyperWorks.

The Stiffener meshing tools are now consolidated with the 1D Mesh tools.
Beam→Shell also migrated to the Mesh ribbon and is now called Inflate. The tool is enhanced to support shell beamsection and create properties. A new tool is added to convert standard beamsections to solids.

Feature CAD Property is not useful any more for property realization from metadata and is replaced by Representation > Update in the Part Browser.

The only known limitation is that material realization is always a default Steel without considering metdata on the material entity.
The "CAD Property" feature is still available in the Model ribbon under the Setup group as backup for material realization.

Deterministic Optimization Workflow: The Deterministic Optimization Workflow is a very powerful, efficient end-to-end workflow for pre-processing, solving, and post-processing. In the Analysis Manager, Deterministic Optimization defines the optimization setup for the selected analysis. Use this option to create design variables for materials, gages, connections, and modal parameters. There are options to create design responses, constraints, and objectives for the user-defined loadcases, and submit the optimization to OptiStruct. You can save the complete optimization setup in an Assembly XML file for review and reuse. A new post-processing utility post-process the optimization results.

NVH Preferences: The NVH preferences supports team preferences and user preferences, providing efficient and seamless coexistence and usage of team and user preferences from a single preference file.
Model Correlation: Support for LCS from test UNV files in MAC calculation.
U-joint Connection: Support to specify plunging mass in U-joint connections.
Workflow Improvement: Workflow improvements for usability when creating and handling local coordinate systems, response point manager, frequency set manager, batch modal check, and batch model reduction.

New IP Impact Tool for FMVSS201 & ECE-R21 regulations

The new IP Impact Tool allows:

the automatic calculation of the instrument panel (IP) testing area according to the regulations FMVSS201 and ECE-R21
the automatic positioning of the headform impactor
the automatic export of ready-to-run solver decks for all the selected impact location

Roof Crush added in Barrier Positionner Tool

The Roof Crush load case is added to the Barrier Positionner workflow and allows:

Seatbelt Tool

New wrap entity selection in seatbelt segment for better belt wrapping control and quality around dummy and seat
Automatic update of seatbelt by selecting new path to adapt an existing belt to a new dummy/seat configuration
Unit system (g,mm,ms) is added

Pre-simulation tools (dummy and seat deformer)

Unit system (g,mm,ms) is added