Abaqus Interface 2022.1 Release Notes

Altair HyperMesh

Segments Selection and Manipulation: Individual segments can be selected from idle. Organize, delete, and other advanced options are available.
New User Comments Entity: A new user comments entity is implemented which allows you to add comments of your choice to the input file for the main deck and include files.

Redundant Entity Management for Sets: Allows you to realize undefined sets referred by other entities when the undefined sets come from a secondary import such as include files.
Legacy Comments Support: Component and Property legacy comments support are available while exporting the input file.
Consolidate for AutoContact: Consolidation of detected contact/tie in an AutoContact search has been re-introduced.
Model Check Validation: Check enabled for elements with missing property assignment.
Contact Pair Selection for Model Change: While defining model change, selection of a contact pair is now allowed instead of main and secondary surface.
New Keywords: *JOULE HEAT FRACTION; *CREEP LAW
Updated Keywords: ALLSECTIONPTS in *ELEMENT OUTPUT; CSTATUS in *CONTACT OUTPUT; DELETE DISTORTED ELEMENT in *SECTION CONTROLS for explicit profile; CURRENT CONTACT in *COHESIVE BEHAVIOR
Post-Processing: Abaqus 2022 ODB result file reading is supported for HyperView and HyperGraph.

Multiple issues and application errors in Load step manager are resolved.
An issue with order in which *BEAM GENERAL SECTION is written to the input file is resolved.
Model checker issue for kinematic coupling is fixed.
Model checker application error issue for zero length 1D elements is resolved.
Segmentation error on updating DCOUP3D element dependent nodes is fixed.
Tension cut-off value for *LOW DENSITY FOAM set to zero as default is fixed.
Search is updated to find *FRAME SECTION.

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