HM-3520: Sculpting

In this tutorial you will work with sculpting.

The objective of this tutorial is to take a dummy pelvis profile and imprint it onto a seat.

This exercise uses the dummy_position_solid.hm file, which can be found in the hm.zip file. Copy the file(s) from this directory to your working directory.


Figure 1.

Open the Model File

In this step you will open the model file, dummy_position_solid.hm.

  1. Start HyperWorks Desktop.
  2. From the menu bar, click File > Open > Model.
  3. Open the file, dummy_position_solid.hm.

Morph the Seat

In this step you will morph the seat.

  1. From the menu bar, click Morphing > Free Hand.
  2. Go to the sculpting subpanel.
  3. Set the sculpting tool to mesh.
  4. For the sculpting tool, select all elements in the dummy collector as in the image that follows.
  5. For affected elements, select all elements in the seat collector as in the image that follows.
  6. For the base point as well as the tool path: node list, choose a node on the dummy.
  7. Define a sculpt direction for your seat using N1 N2.
  8. Set your taper angle to 85 (degrees).
  9. Verify that mesh compression is set to compress by factor.
  10. Set mesh compr= to 0.5.


    Figure 2.
  11. Click move+ to complete the morphing operation.


    Figure 3.
  12. Review the mesh quality.

    Using just a few steps you have been able to take a fairly complicated profile and impose it on to another mesh.