Area

Description

Title bar

The bar across the top of the interface is the title bar. It contains the version of HyperMesh that you are running and the name of the file you are working on.

Graphics area

The graphics area under the title bar is the display area for your model. You can interact with the model in three-dimensional space, in real time. In addition to viewing the model, entities can be selected interactively from the graphics area.

Menu bar

Located just under the title bar.  Like the pull-down menus in many graphical user interface applications, these menus "drop down" a list of options when clicked.  Use these options to access different areas of HyperMesh functionality.

Toolbar

Located just under the graphics area, these buttons provide quick access to commonly-used functions, such as changing display options.

Command Window

You can type HyperMesh commands directly into this text box and execute them instead of using the HyperMesh Graphical User Interface.

Utility Menu

This area contains five pages of macros that perform various functions. The Disp macro page is active and is shaded to signify this. The Disp page macros control how a model displays in the graphics area.

The other macro pages available are QA (contains element checking macros), Mesh (contains macros associated with creating and editing meshes), User (contains macros you create), and Geom (contains macros related to working with a model’s geometry).

The content of the Utility Menu changes based upon the selected user profile.

Header bar

The header bar separates the graphics area from the panel area. The left end of the header bar displays your current location. At this time, you will see geometry displayed. The three fields on the right side of the header bar display the active user profile, current component collector and current load collector. The latter two fields are blank.

As you work in HyperMesh, any warning or error messages also display in the header bar. Warning messages appear in green and error messages appear in red.

The quit button on the rightmost end of the Header bar ends the HyperMesh session. When you select quit, if changes have not been saved a save file information confirmation message appears so you can save your changes before HyperMesh closes down.

Hint        You can hold the left mouse button down on top of a panel to see a description for it in the Header bar.

Page menu

The Page menu allows you to select different sets of functions.

The Geom page contains functions having to do with the creation and editing of geometry.

The 1D, 2D, and 3D pages contain element creation and editing tools grouped according to element type.

The Analysis page contains functions to set up the analysis problem and define the boundary conditions.

The Tool page contains miscellaneous tools and model checking functions.

The Post page contains post-processing functions.

Panel menu

The Panel menu displays for each page the functions available on that page. You access those functions by clicking on the button corresponding to the function you wish to use.

Import Data

CAD

Imports CAD drawing.

HM

Imports an HyperMesh file.

FSW

Imports a HyperWeld data deck, including both the GRF and TCL files.

Select Units

Allows you to set the units used in modeling the problem.

2D Elems

Allows you to control 2d element display.

3D Elems

Allows you to control 3d element display.

Loads

Allows you to control display of Loads.

Lines

Allows you to control display of Lines.

Surfs

Allows you to control display of Surfaces.

Material Data

This macro button allows you to select materials from material database and assign material properties to different components. You can also view Viscosity/Flow stress graph for a material.

Process Data

These macro buttons allow you to define boundary conditions, solution monitoring points, job control parameters, and model summary.

Boundary Conditions

Inspect/Setup BCs

Allows you to view and assign boundary conditions on element faces.

Check Undefined BC

Identifies external faces without loads.

Check Duplicate BC

Identifies duplicate loads.

Process Data

Parameters

Specifies process control parameters.

Extract Points

Defines solution-monitoring points. The HyperXtrude solver prints detailed solution history at these points.

Model Summary

Inspects summary data such as number of elements and loads.

Export Data

FSW

Saves an FSW data deck and start the HX solver.

HM

Allows you to save the data in HyperMesh format.

Launch Solver

Allows you to Launch HX Solver using the current model, using Data deck or using a restart file.