View new features for HyperWorks 2022.1.
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Discover HyperWorks functionality with interactive tutorials.
Start HyperWorks and configure the applications.
Create, open, import, and save models.
Set up sessions and create report templates.
Solver interfaces supported in HyperWorks.
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
Browsers supply a great deal of view-related functionality by listing the parts of a model in a tabular and/or tree-based format, and providing controls inside the table that allow you to alter the display of model parts.
Create and edit 2D parametric sketch geometry.
Create, edit, and cleanup 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.
Different types of mesh you can create in HyperWorks.
Create and edit 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements.
Create, organize and manage parts and subsystems.
HyperMesh composites modeling.
Create connections between parts of your model.
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
Create a reduced ordered model to facilitate optimization at the concept phase.
Workflow to support topology optimization model build and setup.
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
Validate the model built before running solver analysis.
Reduce a full 3D model with axisymmetric surfaces while accounting for imperfections.
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.
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
Airbag solutions offer airbag folder utilities and exports a resulting airbag in a Radioss deck.
Essential utility tools developed using HyperWorks-Tcl.
Import an aeroelastic finite element model with Nastran Bulk Data format.
Framework to plug certification methods to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
Create evaluation lines, evaluate them, and optimize the interfaces to eliminate squeak and rattle issues.
Panels contains pre-processing and post-processing tools.
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
HyperGraph is a data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many file formats.
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multi-body Dynamics.
The Model Browser allows you to view the MotionView model structure while providing display and editing control of entities.
The MotionView ribbons allows you to quickly access tools and standard functions, and is located along the top of MotionView.
MotionView supports the importing of several types of CAD and FE formats.
MotionView has many pre-processing and post-processing capabilities with regards to flexible bodies, or flexbodies, for multi-body dynamics models.
From the Preferences dialog, you can access various MotionView options for your model.
Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
The vehicle library models most four-wheeled vehicles in production today. Models can be modified interactively in MotionView to support topologies that are not supported in the vehicle library. The vehicle library is open-source, ASCII-based, and can be modified by you. The methods in the vehicle library can also be used and adapted to model non-automotive land vehicles, such as tractors and trucks.
A widely used process in the automotive industry is to split the suspension design and development into three distinct stages. The stages are typically performed by different teams working in different locations and at different times during the vehicle program. Ideally, the teams will share model data, modeling methods, and results widely. Since the teams are working on the same vehicle, the engineering lessons learned by one group will need to be shared with the other two teams.
All of the MotionView models can be used in either a Design of Experiments (DOE) or Optimization study using the HyperStudy client in HyperWorks.
The rear suspension model is built using the same process as the front suspension. Eleven different rear suspensions are available using the Assembly Wizard.
The internal jounce bumper system is used to simulate a jounce bumper that is internal to the shock absorber, or strut, on a front or rear suspension. The system creates forces, requests, and graphics of the bumper. The force acts between the strut or shock rod and the strut or shock tube. The bumper is oriented using lengths along the strut/shock instead of XYZ coordinates. The force-deflection characteristics of the jounce bumper are defined by the curve in the jounce bumper system. In models built via the Assembly Wizard, the jounce bumper system is a child of the suspension system.
In the deformable strut system, the strut rod is modeled by beams and the strut tube to strut rod joint is modeled by a point to deformable curve constraint. This allows the strut to bend under load and captures the camber change due to lateral force common to strut suspensions.
Events create motions and forces in the model which make the system move. Most events add additional parts to the model to perform the simulation.
The Static Ride analysis is a simulation of both wheels moving up and down, in phase, with the steering wheel held fixed. The chassis is fixed-to-ground. The displacement of the wheel center is prescribed by the user. The suspension moves via a simple control system and a “suspension test rig”. The wheel is constrained at the tire patch location to the suspension test rig using an in-plane joint. Standard suspension requests (caster, camber, toe, etc.) are included as part of the ride analysis and are described here. The front and rear suspension ride analyses are similar.
The Task Wizard dialog allows you to select the analysis tasks to be run.
In MotionView, models are assembled from libraries of pre-defined systems using the Assembly Wizard, located on the Model menu. The Assembly Wizard dialog guides you through the assembly process, ensuring that your selections are compatible.
The attachments specified during the assembly process (using the Assembly Wizard dialog) can be modified using the Attachment Wizard, located on the Model menu. The Attachment Wizard dialog guides you through the process of modifying the model attachments.
The Set Wizard Path dialog allows you to select directories in which several files are stored.
Reference material for the HyperWorks Desktop scripting interface which is a set of Tcl/Tk commands.
Reference materials for the MotionView MDL Language, Tire Modeling, and the MDL Library.
Reference material detailing command statements, model statements, functions and the Subroutine Interface available in MotionSolve.
Reference material for Templex (a general purpose text and numeric processor) and additional mathematical functions and operators.
Reference materials for the MotionView Python Language.
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
TableView creates an Excel-like spreadsheet in HyperWorks.
TextView math scripts reference vector data from HyperGraph windows to automate data processing and data summary.
Create, define, and export reports.
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
Explore the various vehicle modeling tools.
The vehicle library models most four-wheeled vehicles in production today. Models can be modified interactively in MotionView to support topologies that are not supported in the vehicle library. The vehicle library is open-source, ASCII-based, and can be modified by you. The methods in the vehicle library can also be used and adapted to model non-automotive land vehicles, such as tractors and trucks.
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