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Panels contains pre-processing and post-processing tools.
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The Connectors module contains several connector-specific panels that can be used to create and manage connectors.

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2022.2

Engineering Solutions

What's New
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Get Started
Engineering Solutions is a modeling and visualization environment for NVH, Squeak and Rattle Director, Crash, CFD, and Aerospace using best-in-class solver technology.
Tutorials
Discover Engineering Solutions functionality with interactive tutorials.
NVH
Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) is an important vehicle attribute that directly affects the customer experience.
Squeak and Rattle Director
Use the Squeak and Rattle Director tool to create evaluation lines, evaluate them and optimize the interfaces to eliminate squeak and rattle issues.
Crash
The Crash application offers a tailored environment in HyperWorks that efficiently steers the Crash CAE specialist in CAE model building, starting from CAD geometry and finishing with a runnable solver deck in Radioss, LS-DYNA and PAM-CRASH 2G.
CFD
HyperWorks offers high quality tools for CFD applications enabling the engineer to perform modeling, optimization and post-processing tasks efficiently.
Aerospace
Essential utility tools developed using HyperWorks-Tcl.
Interface with External Products
Solver interfaces supported in Engineering Solutions.
Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
CAD Interfaces
Support provided by the CAD readers and writers.
Browsers
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.
Panels
Panels contains pre-processing and post-processing tools.
- Accels Panel
  Use the Accels (accelerations) panel to create and update concentrated accelerations by applying a load, representing accelerations, nodes, components, sets, surfaces, points, or lines.
- Acoustic Cavity Mesh Panel
  Use the Acoustic Cavity Mesh panel to create a fluid volume mesh for the open-air volumes of an enclosed compartment, such as the passenger compartment of a vehicle. Structural components such as seats are modeled as separate acoustic volumes. Once generated, this mesh can be used in noise/vibration testing.
- Admas Panel
  Use the Admas panel to create and update masses applied to nodes. The Adams panel supports the /ADMAS Radioss and *ELEMENT_MASS LS-DYNA element.
- ALE Setup Panel
  Use the ALE Setup panel to create and modify input data pertaining to the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian.
- Animation Secondary Panel
  Use the Animation Secondary panel to control the display of your model during animation sequences.
- Apply Result Panel
  Use the Apply Result panel to apply the result's analysis data to selected entities of your model, or create loads from the analysis data.
- Assemblies Panel
  Use the Assemblies panel to create and modify assemblies, which are collections of component and multibody collectors or other assemblies. This method of grouping component and multibody collectors is useful because once an assembly is created, it is possible to display components or multibodies by assembly, or to select entities by assembly rather than by component.
- Autocleanup Panel
  Use the Autocleanup panel to perform automatic geometry cleanup and prepare your model for meshing based on the parameters set in the BatchMesher criteria file.
- Automesh Panel
  Use the Automesh panel to generate a mesh of plate elements using surface geometry or existing shell elements to define the mesh area.
- Automeshing Secondary Panel
  Use the Automeshing Secondary panel to create meshes interactively on surfaces, or create meshes without a surface present.
- Axis Labels Panel
  Use the Axis Labels panel to edit the axis label information of the current plot or selected attributes in a group of plots.
- Axis Scaling Panel
  Use the Axis Scaling panel to modify plot axes.
- Bars Panel
  Use the Bars panel to create, review, or update bar2 or bar3 elements.
- Beamsection Collectors Panel
  Use the Beamsection Collectors panel to create and update beamsection collectors.
- Blocks Panel
  Use the Blocks panel to create and modify a block entity, which are commonly used in most crash solvers.
- Bodies Panel
  Use the Bodies panel to create, review, and update group entities.
- Border Panel
  Use the Border panel to edit the appearance of the border that designates the window around an xy plot.
- By Width
  Use the By Width option in the Extended Entity Selection menu to select surfaces based on their width.
- By Window
  Use the By Window option in the Extended Entity Selection menu to create a window that can be used to select entities on your model.
- Card Editor Panel
  Use the Card Editor panel to select entities whose card image you want to view or edit.
- Card Image Panel
  Use the Card Image panel to edit solver specific data on a set of entities.
- CFD Tetramesh Panel
  Use the CFD Tetramesh panel to generate hybrid grids, containing hexa/penta/tetra elements in the boundary layer and tetra elements in the core or fare field.
- Check Elems Panel
  Use the Check Elems pane to verify the basic quality of your elements, as well as the geometric qualities of those elements.
- Color Panel
  Use the Color panel to change the color attributes of a collector.
- Component Collectors Panel
  Use the Component collectors panel to create and update components.
- Composite Shuffle Panel
  Use the Composite Shuffle panel to define manufacturing constraints for composite shuffling optimization.
- Composite Size Panel
  Use the Composite Size panel to define manufacturing constraints for composite sizing optimization.
- Composites Panel
  Use the Composites panel to assign and review the element material orientation of a mesh of shell and continuum shell elements, or to review the fiber direction (ply angle) of individual composite layers.
- Cones Panel
  Use the Cones panel to create an analytic, conical or cylindrical surface and/or mesh.
- Config Edit Panel
  Use the Config Edit panel to make changes to the configuration of existing elements.
- Connectors Module
  The Connectors module contains several connector-specific panels that can be used to create and manage connectors.
  - Connector Creation Panels
    Overview of the structure in the Spot, Bolt, Seam and Area panels.
  - Add Links Panel
    Use the Add Links panel to add link entities to existing connectors.
  - Apply Mass Panel
    Use the Apply Mass panel to create a dummy connector entity to add mass to a part, or create areas of mass to represent parts not present in the CAD or FE data.
  - Connector Comparison Tool
    Use the Connector Comparison tool to compare the connectors in your model to the ones in a Master Connection File (MCF) or Master Weld File (MWF).
  - Connector Options Panel
    Use the Connector Options panel to set general connector options as well as options specific to spots, bolts, seams, or area connectors.
  - FE Absorb Tool
    Use the FE Absorb tool to add (absorb) certain FE information into connectors. FE weld entities or specific FE group definitions can be considered.
  - Mesh Edit Panel
    When creating mesh-dependent realizations with quad transitions, the quad transition meshes can overlap and disturb each other if more than one set of connectors is created too close to each other. The Connector Imprint panel enables you to reconcile such transitions with each other and then modify the underlying mesh to match the results, creating a seamless, properly meshed final result.
  - Quality Panel (Connectors)
    Use the Quality panel to check the quality of connectors and the realized FE.
  - Unrealize Panel
    Use the Unrealize panel to remove existing welds.
- Constr Screen Panel
  Use the Constr Screen panel to define the data for constraint screening.
- Constraints Panel
  Use the Constraints panel to place constraints or enforced displacements on a model. This is accomplished by assigning a degree of freedom (DOF) constraint to the node.
- Contactsurfs Panel
  Use the Contactsurfs panel to create and modify contactsurf entities.
- Contour Loads Tool
  Use the Contour Loads utility to create contour plots of applied loads and boundary conditions contained within load collectors.
- Contour Panel
  Use the Contour panel to create contour and assigned plots of your model, and view your analysis results, in either a contour or assigned plot mode.
- Control Cards Panel
  Use the Control Cards panel to set job-level, solver specific data.
- Control Vol Panel
  Use the Control Vol panel to define control volume objects within a model.
- Convert Panel
  Use the Convert panel to exchange data between different solver formats.
- Count Panel
  Use the Count panel to obtain a count of all the entities in your database.
- Curve Attribs Panel
  Use the Curve Attributes panel to create and edit curves displayed on an xy plot.
- Dconstraints Panel
  Use the Dconstraints panel to create constraints for an optimization problem.
- Defeature Panel
  Use the Defeature panel to find and delete pinholes, fillets on surfaces and surface edges, and duplicate surfaces.
- Deformed Panel
  Use the Deformed (deformed shape) panel to plot displacement analysis results.
- Delete Panel
  Use the Delete panel to delete data from a model database, preview and delete empty collectors, and preview and delete unused property collectors, material collectors, or curves. You can also delete an entire model database, if you wish to start with a clean database.
- Dependency Panel
  Use the Dependency panel to find nodes that have their degrees of freedom removed by a constraint or MPC (multiple point constraint) more than once. By identifying and correcting such dependencies prior to solving, solution errors can be avoided.
- Dequations Panel
  Use the Dequations panel to create user-defined functions for responses and design properties.
- Desvar Link Panel
  Use the Desvar Link panel to link a design variable to other design variables.
- Detach Panel
  Use the Detach panel to detach elements from the surrounding structure. You can detach elements from a portion of your model so that it can be translated or moved, or you can offset the new nodes by a specified value. You can also use this panel to detach and remove elements from your model.
- Dimensioning Panel
  Use the Dimensioning panel to create and manipulate dimension features.
- Discrete DVS Panel
  Use the Discrete dvs panel to define a discrete design variable value table for use in size or shape optimization, which maybe be referenced in the ddval = field on the Size, Gauge or Shape panels..
- Distance Panel
  Use the Distance panel to determine the distance between two nodes/points or the angle between three nodes/points, or to change distances or angles.
- Drag Panel
  Use the Drag panel to create a surface and/or mesh by dragging a series of nodes or lines, or to create elements by dragging selected elements. The selected entities are dragged along the specified vector creating a mesh, surface, or elements along that vector.
- Dummy Panel
  Use the Dummy Positioning / Joint dof panel to rotate the dummy assemblies or specify the position of the H-Point of a dummy assembly. The dummy database must be organized as a tree structure.
- Edge Edit Panel
  Use the Edge Edit panel to alter the connectivity status (topology) of adjacent surface edges, and stitch or split surfaces, replace fillets with corners, and suppress or eliminate redundant edges.
- Edges Panel
  Use the Edges panel to find the free edges in a group of shell elements, find "T" connections in a group of shell elements (any edges connected to three or more elements), display duplicate nodes, and equivalence duplicate nodes.
- Edit Curves Panel
  Use the Edit Curves panel to create new curves or edit existing ones.
- Edit Element Panel
  Use the Edit Element panel to hand build, combine, split, or modify elements.
- Elem Offset Panel
  Use the Elem Offset panel to create and modify elements by offsetting from a mesh of plate or shell elements.
- Elem Types Panel
  Use the Elem Types panel to select the type of element to create, and also allows you to change existing element types.
- Element Cleanup Panel
  Use the Element Cleanup panel to perform automatic cleanup of 2D elements based on the element quality criteria from the Quality Index panel or a separate criteria file.
- Ellipsoids Panel
  Use the Ellipsoids panel to create and modify a single or multiple ellipsoids and cylinders.
- Entity Sets Panel
  Use the Entity Sets panel to create, update, and review named sets of entities.
- Equations Panel
  Use the Equations panel to create, review, and update equations.
- Faces Panel
  Use the Faces panel to find the free faces in a group of elements, and operates in the same manner as edges, but in 3D. It also allows you to find and delete duplicate nodes.
- Fatigue Configuration File
  The fatigue configuration file is a user-defined external ASCII-file through which the data groups from results of static/modal/transient analysis of different solvers can be read.
- Fatigue Panel
  Use the Fatigue panel to write stress, strain, force, and moment results from finite element analysis to an external file that can then be used to set up fatigue analysis.
- FE Joints Panel
  Use the FE joints panel to create, review, or update joint elements. A joint element is a definition of a connection between two rigid bodies. Joint elements store a property and orientation information.
- Features Panel
  Use the Features panel to identify geometric features of a finite element model based on the relative angle between adjacent elements.
- Find Panel
  Use the Find panel to locate entities in a database.
- Finite Difference Panels
  Use the Finite Difference panel to access the finite difference panels.
- Flux Panel
  Use the Flux panel to apply concentrated fluxes to your model. This is accomplished by applying a load, representing fluxes, to element nodes. Fluxes are load config 6 and are displayed as a thick arrow labeled with the word "flux."
- Forces Panel
  Use the Forces panel to create concentrated forces. This is accomplished by applying a load, representing forces, to a node, point, set, or component.
- Free Shape Panel
  Use the Free Shape panel to define design domains for free shape optimization.
- Free Size Panel
  Use the Free Size panel to define design domains for free size optimization.
- Gaps Panel - HyperMesh
  Use the Gaps panel to create gap elements.
- Gaps Panel - OptiStruct
  Use the Gaps panel to create gap elements. When using the OptiStruct solver interface, it allows the creation of multiple node-element gap elements.
- Gauge Panel
  Use the Gauge panel to create design variables (DESVAR) and property relation (DVPREL1) cards for shell and composite laminate components (PSHELL, PCOMP, and PCOMPG) selected for size optimization.
- Global Panel
  Use the Global panel to control global parameters that are accessed by several different panels. These parameters remain constant until changed. It also controls which components or collectors are active. Any entities you create are stored in the active collectors. Finally, you can use this panel to specify which template file you want to use. (Template files must first be created.)
- Grid Attribs Panel
  Use the Grid Attributes panel to edit the grid line information contained in a plot.
- Grid Labels Panel
  Use the Grid Labels panel to edit the grid labels on the x and y axes of a plot. It allows you to change the font and color of the grid tic marks.
- Hidden Line Panel
  Use the Hidden Line panel to create hidden line plots of the displayed structure.
- HyperBeam Panel
  Use the HyperBeam panel to create beam cross-section entities that you can use to simplify complex portions of your model into simple bar elements.
- HyperMorph Module
  Use the HyperMorph module to alter models in useful, logical, and intuitive ways while keeping mesh distortion to a minimum.
- Integrate Panel
  Use the Integrate panel to obtain the area under a curve. The area under the curve that has been integrated is shaded and the total area, based on the calculation, is given.
- Interfaces Panel
  Use the Interfaces panel to create and modify interfaces. Interfaces are mainly used to define contact interactions between various parts of the model.
- Joints Panel
  Use the Joints panel to create, review and update joint elements for use in an OptiStruct Multi-Body Dynamics simulation.
- Legend Edit Panel
  Legends display the range of values for the plot. Use the Legend Edit panel to change the number of colors in the legend or the colors of the legend. You can also reverse the colors used in the legend.
- Legend Panel
  Use the Legend (xy legend) panel to edit the legend associated with an xy plot, for example you can change the font size or the location of the legend.
- Length Panel
  Use the Length panel to determine the length of a selected group of lines, and determine the length of the black line.
- Line Drag Panel
  Use the Line Drag panel to create a two- or three-dimensional surface and/or mesh or elements by dragging nodes, lines, or elements along another line.
- Line Edit Panel
  Use the Line Edit panel to split, join, or extend lines.
- Line Mesh Panel
  Use the Line Mesh panel to create a chain of one-dimensional elements such as beams along a line.
- Linear 1D Panel
  Use the Linear 1D panel to create one-dimensional elements.
- Linear Solid Panel
  Use the Linear Solid panel to create solid elements between two groups of plate elements.
- Lines Panel
  Use the Lines panel to create lines using a wide variety of methods.
- Load Collectors Panel
  Use the Load Collectors panel to create and organize load collectors in your model.
- Load on Geom Panel
  Use the Load on Geom panel to map loads or boundary conditions from geometrical entities (loads on geometry) to the associated FE mesh entities (loads on mesh).
- Load Steps Panel
  Use the Load Steps panel to create and update collections of load collectors, groups, and output blocks.
- Load Types Panel
  Use the Load Types panel to update load types and equations.
- Loads Summary Tool
  Use the Loads Summary tool to create a summary of the loads (node-based forces or moments, and element-based pressures) applied to a model
- Loadsteps Panel
  Use the Loadsteps panel to create Nastran and OptiStruct loadstep entities, which directly correspond to Nastran and OptiStruct loadstep definitions..
- Markers Panel
  Use the Markers panel to create, review and update sensor entities.
- Mask Panel
  Use the Mask panel to mask entities from the display list.
- Mass Calc Panel
  Use the Mass Calc panel to obtain the mass, area, and/or volume of a selected group of elements, solids, or surfaces.
- Masses Panel
  Use the Masses panel to create mass elements.
- Material Collectors Panel
  Use the Material Collectors panel to create, review and edit collectors and card card images or dictionaries.
- MBS Joints Panel
  Use the MBS joints panel to define kinematic joints between two local coordinate systems to connect two multibody collectors. The Engineering Solutions entity created is an mbjoint.
- MBS Planes Panel
  Use the MBS planes panel to create rectangular, planar surfaces for use in multi-body analyses. The created entity is an mbplane.
- Mesh Edit Panel
  Use the Mesh Edit panel to extend a mesh to meet another mesh and form a good connection between them, or to imprint overlapping meshes so that they match one another.
- Midmesh Panel
  Use the Midmesh Panel to automatically generate a mesh at the midplane location, directly from the input geometry (components, elements, solids or surfaces), without first creating a midsurface.
- Midsurface Panel
  Use the Midsurface panel to extract the midsurface representation of a solid part or to generate a finite element shell representation of a solid geometry.
- Moments Panel
  Use the Moments panel to create concentrated moments by applying a load, representing moments, to a node.
- Multibody Collectors Panel
  Use the Multibody Collectors panel to generate new multibody collectors.
- Node Edit Panel
  Use the Node Edit panel to associate nodes to a point, line, or surface/solid face; move nodes along a surface; place a node at a point on a surface; remap a list of nodes to a line; or project nodes to an imaginary line passing through two nodes.
- Nodes Panel
  Use the Nodes panel to create nodes using a wide variety of methods.
- Normals Panel
  Use the Normals panel to display and reverse the normals of elements or surfaces. The orientation of element normals can also be adjusted. The normal of an element is determined by following the order of nodes of the element using the right-hand rule.
- NSM Panel
  Use the NSM panel to add non-structural mass entities to a model, or modify existing ones.
- Numbers Panel
  Use the Numbers panel to display the IDs of an entity.
- Obj Reference Panel
  Use the OBJ Reference panel to define a response and its reference values for a minmax (maxmin) optimization problem.
- Objective Panel
  Use the Objective panel to define the objective function for an optimization problem.
- On Plane Panel
  Use the On Plane panel to select entities that are on or touch a plane.
- Opti Control Panel
  Use the Opti Control panel to define control parameters for an optimization.
- Optimization Panel
  Use the Optimization panel to access the most frequently used topology, topography, size, and shape optimizations panels.
- Options Panel
  Use the Options panel to modify default settings in Engineering Solutions.
- OptiStruct Panel
  Use the OptiStruct panel to execute an OptiStruct run on your desktop.
- Order Change Panel
  Use the Order Change panel to change element order.
- Organize Panel
  Use the Organize panel to (re)organize your database by copying or moving data (entities) among collectors, includes, or parts.
- OSSmooth Panel
  Use the Ossmooth panel to extract and import the final design geometry from OptiStruct's topology, topography and shape optimization results into Engineering Solutions.
- Output Blocks Panel
  Use the Output Blocks panel to create and update blocks of entities used for output requests.
- Penetration Panel
  Use the Penetration panel to check for penetrations and/or intersections of elements. After running the check, you can use additional tools to check the penetration depth and move nodes in order to fix the problem areas; both penetrations and intersections can be fixed.
- Permute Panel
  Use the Permute panel to switch coordinates of model entities in the global coordinate system.
- Perturbations Panel
  Use the Perturbations panel to setup shape optimization.
- Planes Panel
  Use the Planes panel to create a square, planar surface and/or mesh in a user-specified plane, or a surface and/or mesh bounded by planar lines.
- Plot Titles Panel
  Use the Plot Titles panel to edit the title information contained in a plot.
- Plots Panel
  Use the Plots panel to create and manage plot collectors.
- Point Edit Panel
  Use the Point Edit panel to perform many point-specific geometry cleanup tasks.
- Points Panel
  Use the Points panel to create free points using a wide variety of methods.
- Position Panel
  Use the Position panel to specify a new position for model entities.
- Preserve Node Panel
  Use the Preserve Node panel to review free, temporary, and preserved nodes, convert free and temporary nodes into preserved nodes, convert free and temporary nodes into preserved nodes, and remove preserved nodes.
- Pressures Panel
  Use the Pressures panel to create pressure loads on elements by applying a load, representing pressures, to a 1D or 2D element, or to the face of a solid element.
- Project Panel
  Use the Project panel to project data entities to a plane, vector, surface, or line.
- Property Collectors Panel
  Use the Property Collectors panel to create property collectors, which are used to assign physical properties to entities.
- Quality Index Panel
  Use the Quality Index panel to calculate a single value to represent the quality of the displayed shell (2D) model.
- Quality Index Cleanup Tools Secondary Panel
  Use the Quality Index Cleanup Tools secondary panel to access tools that assist you in manually relocating nodes and optimizing element topology.
- Query Curves Panel
  Use the Query Curves panel to determine the x and y values of points in a curve on a plot.
- Quick Edit Panel
  Use the Quick Edit panel to split surfaces and washers, change the category (shared, free, and so on) of edges, create or delete surfaces and points, project points, and trim fillets.
- Radioss Panel
  Use the Radioss panel to execute a Radioss run on your desktop from HyperMesh.
- RBE3 Panel
  Use the RBE3 panel to create, review, and update RBE3 elements.
- Read Curves Panel
  Use the Read Curves panel to read in an xy data set from an ASCII file. As a result, an xy curve is created that represents that data graphically.
- Rebuild Mesh Panel
  Use the Rebuild Mesh panel to streamline the process of remeshing existing meshes to generate a new mesh with good quality and flow.
- Reflect Panel
  Use the Reflect panel to reflect portions of a model about a plane, changing the selected portion into a mirror image of itself.
- Rename Panel
  Use the Rename panel to change the name of a specific collector or to rename types of collectors to their respective ID with an optional prefix.
- Renumber Panel
  Use the Renumber panel to renumber entities. You may also enter a value by which to offset the IDs of entities.
- Reorder Panel
  Use the Reorder panel to change the order of named entities in database.
- Replace Panel
  Use the Replace panel to relocate one node to the position of another or manually equivalence two nodes.
- Responses Panel
  Use the Responses panel to create responses for an optimization.
- Results Curves Panel
  Use the Results Curves panel to create curves by extracting data from an Engineering Solutions binary results file.
- Ribs Panel
  Use the Ribs panel to create and modify simple ribs between two surfaces.
- Rigid Walls Panel
  Use the Rigid Walls panel to create and update rigid walls.
- Rigids Panel
  Use the Rigids panel to create rigid or rigid link elements.
- Rods Panel
  Use the Rods panel to create rod elements.
- Rotate Panel
  Use the Rotate panel to rotate entities around an axis in space.
- Ruled Panel
  Use the Ruled panel to create surfaces and/or meshes of plate elements from nodes, lines, and/or line segments, in any combination.
- Safety Module
  Use the Safety module to access the panels most frequently used in safety analysis.
- Scale Panel
  Use the Scale panel to increase or decrease an entity's dimensions.
- Sensors Panel
  Use the Sensors panel to create and edit modify sensors.
- Shape Panel
  Use the Shape panel to create shape design variables and associate them to a shape for shape optimization.
- Shrink Wrap Panel
  Use the Shrink Wrap panel to generate an enclosed volume or solid mesh, and is typically used to approximate and simplify an existing model.
- Simple Math Panel
  Use the Simple Math panel to access tool for applying mathematical operations to curves.
- Size Panel
  Use the Size panel to define design variables and properties for size optimization.
- Skin Panel
  Use the Skin panel to create a skin surface and/or mesh from a set of lines.
- Smooth Panel
  Use the Smooth panel to improve element quality in a surface-based mesh or a mesh of solid elements using one or more algorithms that adjust node positions to moderate sharp variations in size or quality in adjacent elements.
- Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics Panel
  Use the Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics panel to perform SPH analysis on a component with volume, such as airbags or fuel tanks.
- Solid Edit Panel
  Use the Solid Edit panel to modify solid entities.
- Solid Map Panel
  Use the Solid Map panel to create a mesh of solid elements in a solid geometric volume.
- Solid Mesh Panel
  Use the Solid Mesh panel to create meshes in a pentagonal or hexagonal volume defined with edge lines.
- Solids Panel
  Use the Solids panel to create solid geometry using a wide variety of methods.
- Solver Panel
  Use the Solver panel to run an external program from within Engineering Solutions or assign and run a solver on selected analysis decks.
- Spheres Panel
  Use the Spheres panel to create a spherical surface and/or mesh.
- Spherical Clipping Panel
  Use the Spherical Clipping panel to focus on specific areas of the model by displaying only the portions of a model inside a three-dimensional spherical volume, while masking everything outside the sphere.
- Spin Panel
  Use the Spin panel to create a surface and/or mesh or elements by spinning a series of nodes, a line or lines, or a group of elements about a vector to create a circular structure.
- Spline Panel
  Use the Spline panel to create a shell mesh and/or surface. A mesh and surface can be created using nodes, points, or lines. You can also use the Spline panel to create a mesh without a surface, or a surface without a mesh.
- Split Panel
  Use the Split panel to split plates or solid elements. In addition, hexa elements can also be split using a technique that moves progressively through a row of elements in the model.
- Spotweld Panel
  Use the Spotweld panel to create 1D elements to connect different parts.
- Springs Panel
  Use the Springs panel to create spring elements.
- Summary Panel
  Use the Summary panel to obtain a summary of component element counts or element properties of the current model.
- Super Elems Panel
  Use the Super Elems panel to assign nodes to a super element set. You can also display the nodes that belong to a super element.
- Surface Edit Panel
  Use the Surface Edit panel to perform a variety of surface editing, trimming, and creation functions. This panel also allows you to offset surfaces in their normal direction.
- Surface Transparency Panel
  Use the Surface Transparency panel to set the transparency level for the surfaces of selected components.
- Surfaces Panel
  Use the Surfaces panel to create surfaces using a wide variety of methods.
- System Collectors Panel
  Use the Systems Collectors panel to create and update system collectors.
- Systems Panel
  Use the Systems panel to create rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems. Use this function when you want to define nodes, loads and constraints in a different coordinate system.
- Table Entries Panel
  Use the Table Entries panel to specify table entries for use in equations for responses and design properties.
- Tags Panel
  Use the Tags panel to assign names to nodes, elements, lines, surfaces, points, and solids. An entity name is then used to reference the entity across multiple versions of the same model.
- Temp Nodes Panel
  Use the Temp Nodes panel to control which nodes are on the temporary node mark.
- Temperatures Panel
  Use the Temperatures panel to create temperature constraints.
- Tetramesh Panel
  Use the Tetramesh panel to fill an enclosed volume with first or second order tetrahedral elements.
- Titles Panel
  Use the Titles panel to create, edit, and move screen titles and entity tags.
- Topography Panel
  Use the Topography panel to define design domains for topography optimization.
- Topology Panel
  Use the Topology panel to define design domains for topology optimization.
- Torus Panel
  Use the Torus panel to create an analytic, toroidal surface and/or mesh.
- Transient Panel
  Use the Transient panel to create an animation sequence from transient results.
- Translate Panel
  Use the Translate panel to move entities in a single specified direction.
- True View Panel
  Use the True View panel to change the current view of your model based on a model vector or angles.
- Vector Collectors Panel
  Use the Vectors Collectors panel to create and update vector collectors.
- Vector Plot Panel
  Use the Vector Plot panel to create analysis-based vector plots.
- Vectors Panel
  Use the Vectors panel to create a vector entity.
- Velocities Panel
  Use the Velocities panel to create concentrated velocities.
- Window Panel
  Use the Window panel to control xy plot window size and placement.
- XY Plots Panel
  Use the XY Plots panel to access the XY Plotting panels.
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Geometry
Create, edit, and cleanup geometry.
Meshing
Different types of mesh you can create in HyperWorks.
Connectors
Create connections between parts of your model.
Model Build and Assembly
Create, organize and manage parts and subsystems.
Model Verification
Perform automatic checks on CAD models, and identify potential issues with geometry that may slow down the meshing process using the Verification and Comparison tools.
Model Setup
Overview of how to build a finite element model.
Morphing
Morph the shape of your finite element model.
Optimization
Setup an Optimization in Engineering Solutions.
Conversion Between Solver Formats
Convert finite element models to another solver format.
XY Plotting
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Connectors Module
The Connectors module contains several connector-specific panels that can be used to create and manage connectors.

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Connectors Module

The Connectors module contains several connector-specific panels that can be used to create and manage connectors.

Location: 1D, 2D, and 3D pages

Connector Creation Panels
Overview of the structure in the Spot, Bolt, Seam and Area panels.
Add Links Panel
Use the Add Links panel to add link entities to existing connectors.
Apply Mass Panel
Use the Apply Mass panel to create a dummy connector entity to add mass to a part, or create areas of mass to represent parts not present in the CAD or FE data.
Connector Comparison Tool
Use the Connector Comparison tool to compare the connectors in your model to the ones in a Master Connection File (MCF) or Master Weld File (MWF).
Connector Options Panel
Use the Connector Options panel to set general connector options as well as options specific to spots, bolts, seams, or area connectors.
FE Absorb Tool
Use the FE Absorb tool to add (absorb) certain FE information into connectors. FE weld entities or specific FE group definitions can be considered.
Mesh Edit Panel
When creating mesh-dependent realizations with quad transitions, the quad transition meshes can overlap and disturb each other if more than one set of connectors is created too close to each other. The Connector Imprint panel enables you to reconcile such transitions with each other and then modify the underlying mesh to match the results, creating a seamless, properly meshed final result.
Quality Panel (Connectors)
Use the Quality panel to check the quality of connectors and the realized FE.
Unrealize Panel
Use the Unrealize panel to remove existing welds.

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