Part Browser

Use the Part Browser to create, organize and manage the CAE part structure/hierarchy.

From the menu bar, click View > Browsers > HyperMesh > Part Browser.

The browser opens in its own tab in the tab sidebar. You can undock the browser so that it appears as a free-floating dialog.

You can undo and redo actions made in the Part Browser using the Undo and Redo commands on the toolbar. The undo/redo history will be reset as soon as you create a part or part assembly. Edits made to parts and part assemblies cannot be undone, whereas edits made to components can be undone.

Part Browser Interface

The Part Browser consists of two panes; the first pane displays the model structure, part assembly, and part attributes and the second pane displays the Entity Editor.


Figure 1.

Browser Attributes (Columns)

By default, the following attributes are listed as columns in the first pane.

Add or remove columns by right-clicking on a column and checking/unchecking the appropriate attribute.

Sort by a particular entity in the browser by clicking on the heading of each column. For fields that are numeric and/or alphanumeric, repeated clicks toggles between ascending and descending order.
Table 1.
Column Description
Entity List of the Model, Part Assemblies, Parts and Components. By default the browser is displayed in Hierarchical View.
Color Displays the Component and Part entity colors.
UID Displays the Part Assembly and Part Unique IDs.
Revision Displays the Major revision, Study revision, and Library Part revision.
Representation Displays the in-session/loaded representation.
Active Displays the Part entity active status.

For a full description of usage, refer to Configuration Management.
CID Displays the entity specific Component ID’s. At the Part level it displays IDs for owned components. At Component level it shows the ID of components.
PID Displays the entity specific Property ID’s. At the Part level it displays IDs for referenced properties. At Component level it shows the ID of the referenced property.
MID Displays the entity specific Material ID’s. At the Part level it displays IDs for referenced materials. At Component level it shows the ID of the referenced material.
Material Displays the material name.
Thickness Displays the entity specific thickness. At the Part level it displays the thicknesses of the referenced properties. At Component level it shows the thickness of the referenced property.
Comment User-defined comment assigned to the mesh representation when it is saved.
PDM metadata captured upon the importation of a BOM via the Import tab will also be listed as columns.
Table 2.
Column Description
PDM PID PDM Property ID metadata.
PDM MID PDM Material ID metadata.
PDM Material PDM Material name metadata.
PDM Thickness PDM Thickness metadata.
PDM MeshFlag PDM Mesh metadata (not case sensitive).
PDM Variant Condition If non-empty, displays the part that is used as a variant in one or multiple part configurations. It is user editable in the Entity Editor.
PDM Variant Scope Along with the Variant Condition attribute, displays which part configurations the part belongs to as a variant. It is user editable in the Entity Editor.