Altair HyperView 2021.2 Release Notes

Highlights

New Features

New Workflows for Notes, Measures, and Section Cuts in HyperWorks

The old panel-based workflow is replaced with a simplified guide bar for Notes and Measures and a micro dialog for Section Cuts. Also, all three tools have a dialog listing the measures/notes/section cuts for editing and managing these entities.

In addition to supporting existing functionality, the new Notes tool also offers additional features such as arrangement options, in-place editing, contour or component-based coloring, and rotation.

A brief description of each of these tools is provided below, for additional details please consult the User Guide.

Notes

The Notes tool user interface is now a guide bar and a Notes Review dialog that can be launched from the Results Ribbon. The guide bar provides you with the choice to either auto-create notes (by clicking on an empty area in the graphics or on any of the supported entities) or to manually select entities and create. In addition, the guide bar also has a preferences menu to set options such as note text, color, arrangement, and so on before creating notes.

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Once the notes are created, you can edit the content of individual notes by double clicking and launching an in-place editor. The editor has options to attach a note to coordinates or to insert Templex expressions that will get evaluated during animation.

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You can also edit, manage, or delete notes by selecting them and using the right-click context menu.

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The right-click context menu provides many useful options:

• New arrangement methods to quickly and automatically position the notes around the model. Once arranged, you can further adjust the note location by selecting and moving them on-screen.
• Rotate the note text box.
• Delete or Hide note(s).
• Color note(s) based on a component color or a criteria such as contour value.

You can also manage or edit notes using the Notes Review dialog available via the satellite icon.

The Notes Entity Editor has few new attributes, such as specifying Notes text box position by screen location (in pixels) or model coordinates, setting text/border/fill color mode, specifying Rotation angle, and so on. Note: the Fit Model option will work on notes positioned by model coordinates.

Measures

The Measure tool user interface is now a guide bar and a Measures Review dialog that can be launched from the Results Ribbon. Set the measure type from the guide bar and depending on the type, you can either auto-create measures by simply clicking the entities in the modeling window or manually create measures by selecting entities first and then clicking the Create button.

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To edit measures, click on the satellite icon to launch the Measures Review dialog. Right-click on measure(s) and click on Edit to change measure attributes. The dialog also shows a preview curve of the measure by default and if needed, the curve can be placed on a separate HyperGraph window.

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Section Cuts

The Section Cut tool is now a microdialog and a Section Cuts dialog that can be launched from the View toolbar. The microdialog provides all of the options for modifying a planar or spherical section cut and the Section cuts dialog allows adding, bulk editing, or deleting section cuts and controlling the display of clipped geometry.

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Record and Playback for Exploded Views

HWC (HyperWorks Command language) coverage, which allows you to record and playback workflows in HyperView, has been expanded to support Exploded Views.

Tasks performed in this panel are recorded in the simple and intuitive HWC syntax and can be logged both in HWC or Tcl syntax on the file system. The command line supports auto-completion and interactive help and also allows easy modification and re-execution of commands.

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LS-DYNA Cross Sections Support

Cross Sections defined in a LS-DYNA input deck via *DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION can be read and visualized in HyperView. Both Planar and Set based Cross Sections are supported. For Planar Cross Sections, the plane and the associated part set can be displayed using three options: No Clip, Cross Section only, or Clipping Plane. For Set based cross sections, the underlying sets are displayed. Note: this entity is supported only in the new HyperWorks and not in HyperWorks Desktop. For full coverage and limitations, please refer to the User Guide.

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Unified Preferences Dialog in HyperWorks

HyperView preferences are now available in a harmonized dialog along with other HyperWorks clients. They will be available using the same entry point in the Menu bar File > Preferences. Image capture and H3D export-related settings are added to the common section of preferences, which apply to all HyperWorks clients.

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Failure Time Contour Plot in HyperView – Upfront Loader

A new result type, FailureTime, is now automatically available in HyperView – Upfront Loader for you to use to identify if and when an element will fail during the simulation.

The result type contains the following three components:

• Value: Contour plot will show the time at which an element fails.
• Frame: Contour plot will show the animation frame number at which an element fails.
• Status: Contour plot will show whether an elements fails or not during the simulation.

Load all the animation steps and contour to view a plot as shown below.

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Note that the result file must contain Erosion (failed elements) data for the result type to be available.

Loading Progress in HyperView - Upfront Loader

Data Loading can now be monitored and/or cancelled in HyperView – Upfront Loader via a dedicated loading progress dialog. The dialog can be launched from the lower right corner of the status bar and shows the loading progress of both Loadcase/steps and result definitions.

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