The Metal Rolling Utility menu lists options for selecting and assigning material properties, defining and applying boundary conditions, defining process conditions, and exporting data files to HyperXtrude. The buttons in the Utility menu provide shortcuts to native HyperMesh panels and access to pop-up menus and other macro panels. These macros are organized in logical process flow.
The following options are available on the main page of the Utility menu for Metal Rolling Analysis:
Utils |
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Clear Temp Nodes |
Deletes temporary nodes from the model. |
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Tools |
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Split Tets |
For the selected components having TET4 elements are converted to HEX8 element config. |
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Select Units |
Opens the unit selection window, where you can select the unit system, which automatically updates the other units. In case of Mixed, you can choose appropriate length, temperature, velocity and stress units. |
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Material Database |
Opens the materials database, from which you can select materials, assign material properties to components, and view viscosity/flow stress graphs. |
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Boundary Conditions |
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Create/Edit BC |
Allows you to define and assign boundary conditions on element faces. |
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Check Undefined BC |
Identify the external faces without loads. |
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Check Duplicate BC |
Identify duplicate loads in the model. |
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Process Data |
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Parameters |
Displays a menu that allows you to specify run control parameters. |
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Extract Points |
Allows you to define solution monitoring points in the mesh. The HyperXtrude solver prints detailed solution history at these monitoring points. |
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Model Summary |
Displays the summary of process conditions, materials assigned, BCs created, and element statistics of the model. |
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Export Data |
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Export/Launch Solver |
Generates Data Deck for solver in interactive and batch mode. Starts the HyperXtrude solver using the current model, existing data deck, or a restart file. |
Importing HyperXtrude Data Decks
Exporting HyperXtrude Data Files