Engineering Solutions
Engineering Solutions

2021

  1. Home
  2. 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.

  3. Utility Menus

    The Utility menu contains options that allow you to customize the standard interface to include function buttons, radio options, and text that have Engineering Solutions-supplied and user-defined macros associated with them.

  4. PAM-CRASH 2G Utility Menu

    The PAM-CRASH 2G Utility menu (pamcrash2G.mac) contains shortcuts and tools that help simplify PAM-CRASH 2G tasks.

  5. Tool Menu

    Use the Tool menu options to simplify safety tasks.

  6. Organize Xlinks Macro

    The XLINK Organizer macro can be used to move and arrange existing LINK type elements (PLINK, ELINK, LLINK, SLINK) to existing components.

  • 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
Index
Engineering Solutions

2021

Engineering Solutions
  • What's New

    View new features for Engineering Solutions 2021.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    • Basic Browser Operations

      Learn the basics of working with browsers.

    • Assembly Browser

      Use the Assembly Browser to manage parts and modules during the assembly building process.

    • Connector Browser

      Use the Connector Browser to view and modify connectors in the current model.

    • Contact Browser

      Use the Contact Browser to create, review and modify contact interfaces and surfaces in a model.

    • Entity Editor

      The Entity Editor enables you to quickly view and edit entities in a model and correctly setup solver information.

    • Entity State Browser

      Use the Entity State Browser to set various states for entities in a model.

    • Loadsteps Browser

      Use the Loadsteps Browser to create, manage and display loadsteps (sub-cases) and the associated control cards.

    • Mask Browser

      In the Mask Browser, set the mask/unmask state for entities at the entity configuration level.

    • Mass Trimming Browser

      Use the Mass Trimming tool to create, define and realize mass entities.

    • Matrix Browser

      Use the Matrix Browser to explore the HyperMesh and HyperView data entities and export the entities to external files for further analysis.

    • Model Browser

      Use the Model Browser to view the model structure while providing full find, display and editing control of entities.

    • Model Checker

      Check the solver validity of the model, identify modeling issues, and fix modeling issues in an automatic or manual way.

    • Part Browser

      Use the Part Browser to create, organize and manage the CAE part structure/hierarchy.

    • Reference Browser

      The Reference Browser enables you to quickly understand complex relationships between different entities that constitute the model.

    • Solver Browser

      The Solver Browser provides a solver centric view of the model structure in a flat, listed tree structure.

    • Subsystem Browser

      Create, organize and manage the CAE subsystem level models using any entities.

    • Utility Menus

      The Utility menu contains options that allow you to customize the standard interface to include function buttons, radio options, and text that have Engineering Solutions-supplied and user-defined macros associated with them.

      • QA/Model Utility Menu

        The QA Utility menu contains many tools to help you quickly review and clean up the quality of a pre-existing mesh.

      • Disp Utility Menu

        In the Disp Utility menu, clear temporary nodes if needed.

      • Geom/Mesh Utility Menu

        This menu contains a set of macros related to working with model geometry, as well as a set for working with FE mesh.

      • Abaqus Utility Menu

        Macros are included on the Abaqus page of the Utility menu when you load the Abaqus user profile.

      • ANSYS Utility Menu

        The macros on the ANSYS Utility menu simplify some common tasks for the ANSYS user profile.

      • LS-DYNA Utility Menu

        The LS-DYNA Utility menu contains shortcuts and tools that can help simplify LS-DYNA tasks. Set the user profile from the User Profiles option of the Preferences menu.

      • Nastran Utility Menu

        The Nastran user profile contains two macro menus on the Utility menu: Nastran1 and Nastran.

      • PAM-CRASH 2G Utility Menu

        The PAM-CRASH 2G Utility menu (pamcrash2G.mac) contains shortcuts and tools that help simplify PAM-CRASH 2G tasks.

        • Tool Menu

          Use the Tool menu options to simplify safety tasks.

          • Dummy Positioning Tool Start Macro

            Use this macro to position dummies.

          • Part Info Macro

            The Part Info macro summarizes a part’s statistics in a dialog.

          • Substructure Tool Macro

            The Substructure Tool macro provides several features for creating and modifying substructures.

          • RBODY Manager Macro

            The RBODY Manager is accessible in the PAM-CRASH 2G Tool menu.

          • Apply Initial Metric Macro

            The Apply Initial Metric macro applies the initial metric to the current model for simulating the inflation of airbags.

          • Organize Xlinks Macro

            The XLINK Organizer macro can be used to move and arrange existing LINK type elements (PLINK, ELINK, LLINK, SLINK) to existing components.

          • MASS Manager Macro

            Displays information about masses in the model.

          • Input Fields in the Show ID Ranges User Interface

        • Find Menu

          The Find menu contains options that help you find and visualize data.

        • Card Menu

          The Card menu contains options that help display the PAM-CRASH 2G cards in an editor.

        • Sum Menu

          The Sum menu contains options that execute the PAM-CRASH 2G summary templates and display the resulting text file in a viewer.

        • M1 Menu

          The M1 menu contains options that set the correct element or load type and enter the appropriate HyperMesh panel.

        • M2 Menu

          The M2 menu contains options that set the correct element or load type and enter the appropriate Engineering Solutions panel.

        • Conn Menu

          The Conn menu contains options that let you manage connectors in the model.

        • GES Macro

          The GES macro displays a GES Browser that lets you manage sets in the model.

      • OptiStruct Utility Menu

        The Utility menu for the OptiStruct user profile contains, in addition to the default Utility menus, three pages (Summary, FEA and Opti) of specific utilities for OptiStruct.

    • Visualization Controls

      Use the Visualization controls to change many of the visual states in Engineering Solutions and HyperView.

  • 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
Engineering Solutions

2021

  1. Home
  2. 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.

  3. Utility Menus

    The Utility menu contains options that allow you to customize the standard interface to include function buttons, radio options, and text that have Engineering Solutions-supplied and user-defined macros associated with them.

  4. PAM-CRASH 2G Utility Menu

    The PAM-CRASH 2G Utility menu (pamcrash2G.mac) contains shortcuts and tools that help simplify PAM-CRASH 2G tasks.

  5. Tool Menu

    Use the Tool menu options to simplify safety tasks.

  6. Organize Xlinks Macro

    The XLINK Organizer macro can be used to move and arrange existing LINK type elements (PLINK, ELINK, LLINK, SLINK) to existing components.

  • 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
Index

Organize Xlinks Macro

The XLINK Organizer macro can be used to move and arrange existing LINK type elements (PLINK, ELINK, LLINK, SLINK) to existing components.

The macro contains the following options:
Table 1.
Option Description
Select element: Select the element type you want to work with.
Prefix: Filter the element results by the text you type in the adjacent text box. Click Set to run the filter.
The macro contains the following buttons:
Table 2.
Button Action
Makes only the selected elements visible in the graphics display.
Select a component/part to which the selected elements will be added.
Import a component from a PAM-CRASH 2G input file.

Move an XLINK Element to a Component

  1. Select the type of link element from the Select element field.
    The list of elements of that link type are listed in the table along with the parts with which they are associated.
  2. Click component to select a component to which you want to add the selected elements.
  3. Click Apply.
    The selected elements are added to the selected component.

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