Engineering Solutions

2021

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Aerospace
Many essential utility tools using HyperWorks-Tcl have been developed over the years to support Aerospace customers. A few tools have been collected and upgraded to be compatible with this release.
Aerospace Menu
The Aerospace menu is a useful utility to build and view aerospace models.
Result Tools
Free Body Diagram (FBD)
Calculate free-body forces, moments, displacements and rotation.
FBD Trace Plot
Display free-body forces and moments at each cross-section along a node path.
Display the Trace Plot for the Selected Loadcase

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NVH
Squeak and Rattle Director
Crash
CFD
Drop Test
Aerospace
Interface with External Products
Entities and Solver Interfaces
CAD Interfaces
Browsers
Panels
Geometry
Meshing
Connectors
Model Build and Assembly
Model Verification
Model Setup
Morphing
Optimization
Conversion Between Solver Formats
XY Plotting
Post-Processing Analysis

2021

Engineering Solutions

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Get Started
HyperWorks Engineering Solutions is a modeling and visualization environment for NVH, Crash, CFD, Drop Test and Aerospace using best-in-class solver technology.
Tutorials
Discover Engineering Solutions functionality with interactive tutorials.
NVH
Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH) is an important vehicle attribute that directly affects the customer experience.
Squeak and Rattle Director
Use Squeak and Rattle Director tool to create evaluation lines, evaluate them and optimize the interfaces to eliminate squeak and rattle issues.
Crash
The Crash application offers a tailored environment in HyperWorks that efficiently steers the Crash CAE specialist in CAE model building, starting from CAD geometry and finishing with a runnable solver deck in Radioss, LS-DYNA and PAM-CRASH 2G.
CFD
HyperWorks offers high quality tools for CFD applications enabling the engineer to perform modeling, optimization and post-processing tasks efficiently.
Drop Test
The Drop Test Manager is an automated solution that allows you to either simulate a single drop test or a choice of multiple iterations with the aim of finding the sensitivity of process variables like initial orientation and drop height in a typical drop test by controlling the run parameters and conditions with ease.
Aerospace
Many essential utility tools using HyperWorks-Tcl have been developed over the years to support Aerospace customers. A few tools have been collected and upgraded to be compatible with this release.
- Aerospace Menu
  The Aerospace menu is a useful utility to build and view aerospace models.
  - Assembly Tools
    Create an assembly structure from a .csv file definition.
  - Panel Tools
  - Beam Tools
  - Check Tools
  - Composite Tools
  - Load/BCs Tools
  - Connection Tools
  - Spatial ID Manager Tools
  - Display Tools
  - Report Tools
  - Result Tools
    - Results Processing Tools in HyperMesh
      The results post-processing workflow is now embedded in HyperMesh, and you can seamlessly process solver native results in HyperMesh. The File Loader is used to generate the new results entity.
    - Matrix Browser
      Use the Matrix Browser to explore the HyperMesh and HyperView data entities and export the entities to external files for further analysis.
    - Results Explorer
      Enables exploring the element force and moment results (internal loads) from solver result files (grid point forces) for further component sizing/optimization tasks and also for component certification/margin calculation.
    - Free Body Diagram (FBD)
      Calculate free-body forces, moments, displacements and rotation.
      - FBD Forces
        Calculate the contribution of one or more elements to the force and moment equilibrium at desired nodes.
      - FBD Displacement
        Plot displacements and rotations at nodes.
      - FBD Cross Section
        Define a cross-section plane.
      - FBD Trace Plot
        Display free-body forces and moments at each cross-section along a node path.
        
        Create Free-Body Sections
        
        Set Properties of the Selected FBD Section Group
        
        Select a Loadcase
        
        Trace Plot Visualization Options
        Define visualization options for the trace plot.
        
        Display the Trace Plot for the Selected Loadcase
      - FBD Potato/VMT Plots
        Potato plots are used to build load envelopes. VMT plots are used to build tensile, shear and bending moment diagrams.
      - FBD Panel Plot
        Display normal and shear loads of panel structural members.
      - FBD Bar Plot
        Display forces and moments acting on beam and bar elements.
    - F06 Parser
      In Nastran, the F06 file contains information related either to the diagnostic of the model, analysis check up and results. This tool enables you to parse a defined number of information blocks and store them as a HyperMesh table entity with a given name.
    - Import and Check Ground Check Forces
    - Fringe Post-Processing Using Different Volume Averaging Methods
      Use this tool to evaluate for the selected elements the average value of the selected result type.
  - Certification
    Framework to plug certification methods inside HyperWorks to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
  - Set Tools
  - System Tools
  - Aeroelasticity
  - Node Tools
- Collectors Menu
- Geometry Menu
- Mesh Menu
- Connectors Menu
  Provides tools to create and manage connectors.
- Materials Menu
- Properties Menu
- Boundary Conditions Menu
- Setup Menu
- Tools Menu
- Morphing Menu
  Provides functions to help you morph the shape of a finite element model.
- Optimization Menu
  Engineering Solutions Optimization technology is supported by OptiStruct.
- XY Plots Menu
Interface with External Products
Solver interfaces supported in Engineering Solutions.
Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
CAD Interfaces
Support provided by the CAD readers and writers.
Browsers
Browsers supply a great deal of view-related functionality in Engineering Solutions by listing the parts of a model in a tabular and/or tree-based format, and providing controls inside the table that allow you to alter the display of model parts.
Panels
Panels contains pre-processing and post-processing tools.
Geometry
Create, edit, and cleanup geometry.
Meshing
Learn about the different types of mesh you can create in HyperWorks.
Connectors
Create connections between parts of your model.
Model Build and Assembly
Create, organize, and manage the CAE parts.
Model Verification
Perform automatic checks on CAD models, and identify potential issues with geometry that may slow down the meshing process using the Verification and Comparison tools.
Model Setup
Overview of how to build a finite element model.
Morphing
Morph the shape of your finite element model.
Optimization
Setup an Optimization in Engineering Solutions.
Conversion Between Solver Formats
Convert finite element models to another solver format.
XY Plotting
Study relationships between data vectors in results files.
Post-Processing Analysis
Learn how to use post-processing functions.

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Engineering Solutions

2021

Home
Aerospace
Many essential utility tools using HyperWorks-Tcl have been developed over the years to support Aerospace customers. A few tools have been collected and upgraded to be compatible with this release.
Aerospace Menu
The Aerospace menu is a useful utility to build and view aerospace models.
Result Tools
Free Body Diagram (FBD)
Calculate free-body forces, moments, displacements and rotation.
FBD Trace Plot
Display free-body forces and moments at each cross-section along a node path.
Display the Trace Plot for the Selected Loadcase

What's New
Get Started
Tutorials
NVH
Squeak and Rattle Director
Crash
CFD
Drop Test
Aerospace
Interface with External Products
Entities and Solver Interfaces
CAD Interfaces
Browsers
Panels
Geometry
Meshing
Connectors
Model Build and Assembly
Model Verification
Model Setup
Morphing
Optimization
Conversion Between Solver Formats
XY Plotting
Post-Processing Analysis

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