Fuse Closed Shells
Use the Fuse: Closed Shells tool to create watertight volumes for CFD and thermal applications with closed shells.
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Solver interfaces supported in HyperWorks.
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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.
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Many of the methods to check and edit mesh are based around determining mesh quality, but others check for mesh penetration, detect holes, and locate edges or features.
Supported 2D elements.
Use the Normals tool 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.
Use the Orientation Review tool to display/review and modify frequently used coordinate systems used in CAE analysis.
Use the Element Quality view to review element quality while simultaneously editing your model.
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Use the Auto Quality tool to automatically correct element quality.
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Use the Replicate tool to replicate a mesh from one location to another, with options to keep the original mesh, as well as to replicate into multiple copies. The replicated elements replace the original elements, maintaining relevant information like properties, thicknesses, and other solver attributes.
Locally refine 2D elements and attached 1D elements using either the Auto Quads tool, the Box tool, or the Manual tool. These are most useful for aerospace and marine applications, where specific transition patterns are required from the refined mesh to the existing mesh.
Simplify a mesh by combining many small elements into a smaller number of larger ones.
Use the Detach tool 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.
Use the Imprint/Extend tool 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.
Use the Fuse tool to connect close proximity, overlapping, and intersecting parts.
Use the Fuse: Open Shells tool to automatically connect open shells to resolve penetrations/intersections, or prepare a BIW model for an electromagnetic analysis.
Use the Fuse: Closed Shells tool to create watertight volumes for CFD and thermal applications with closed shells.
The Fuse tool can be used with several types of analyses where mesh connections are required.
Use the Hole/Gap Fill tool to fill holes, gaps, and patches in first order and second order elements.
Use the Map Thickness tool to apply thickness values to shell elements on midsurfaced geometry.
Use the Box Trim tool trim the model, or selected subset, to fit any defined box volumes.
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Change a group of elements from second order elements to first order elements, or vice versa.
The Solid Mesh Optimization tool can be used to improve the quality of a tetra, hexas, and second order meshes with respect to several element criteria.
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.
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
Stitch two unconnected meshes by adding elements between them, split elements at weld locations, and combine and split elements to fix connectivity in the transitional area between fine and coarse mesh areas.
Connect intersecting triangular and quadrilateral 2D elements.
Perform a model-based CAD-CAD, CAD-FE or FE-FE comparison between two models, or two selections of entities, and find and report geometrical/shape differences.
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.
Setup an Optimization in HyperWorks.
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
Validate the model built before running solver analysis.
Models require loads and boundary conditions in order to represent the various physics and/or physical equivalents to bench and in-use testing.
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.
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.
Create and edit 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements.
Many of the methods to check and edit mesh are based around determining mesh quality, but others check for mesh penetration, detect holes, and locate edges or features.
Use the Fuse tool to connect close proximity, overlapping, and intersecting parts.
Use the Fuse: Closed Shells tool to create watertight volumes for CFD and thermal applications with closed shells.
Use the Fuse: Closed Shells tool to create watertight volumes for CFD and thermal applications with closed shells.
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