Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality and create, edit, and apply
shapes for subsequent design optimization studies.
The Design Space environment is dedicated to topology optimization model build and setup. It facilitates rapid model creation by generating
the voxel design space for a number of different use cases.
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.
Open animation files, measure various distances and angles between entities, and use the Results Browser to view the model structure and find, display, and edit entities.
The layer filter reduces the layer list available in the Contour, Iso, Vector, and Tensor panels for the data types that
have layers (for example, plies in composite stress/stains or any tensor result with layers).
After a contour plot has been applied in the Contour panel, the Cache feature will become active and allow you to add
the currently active contour result to an internal cache.
The averaging options allow you to limit the averaging of results to only a group of elements that are considered to be
bound by same feature angle or face.
The fatigue manager allows you to write stress and strain results from a finite element analysis to an external file that
can be used to set up a fatigue analysis.
The fatigue configuration file is a user-defined external ASCII-file through which the data groups from results of static/modal/transient analysis of different solvers can be read.
Create and edit user-defined data type expressions, derived load cases, and systems. You can also plot a forming limit
diagram, generate streamlines, track entities during animation, and create and import/export sets of entities.
Query entities, create or edit free body diagrams, construct multiple curves and plots from a single result file, and
create and plot stress linearization.
The Count layers option in the Contour panel and Iso panel allows you to calculate and
display how many layers/plies are in each element.
When used with a Value Filter, the Count aggregation mode will
return the number of layers that meet the specified criteria. This can be a useful tool when
trying to determine how many layers/plies are failing or exceeding certain threshold
criteria.
The Count option can be used in conjunction with the Layer filter and the Value
filter options (located in the middle of the panel), in order to further specify or define
the plies/layers to be included in the count results (see the examples below).
The tables below illustrate how the Count option and the Value Filter work
together:
All layers are included in the count and other calculations (Max, Min,
etc.).
Only the layers which are less than or equal to 0.4 (the Value filter setting) are
included in the count and other calculations (Max, Min, etc.).
Only the layers which are greater than or equal to 0.4 (the Value filter setting) are
included in the count and other calculations (Max, Min, etc.).
Only layers 1, 3, and 5 (selected using the Layer filter) which are greater than or
equal to 0.4 (the Value filter setting) and are included in the count and other calculations
(Max, Min, etc.).