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.
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 Free Body Diagram (FBD) tool facilitates the extraction and post-processing of Grid Point Force (GPFORCE) results
and can be used create and edit Free Body Diagrams (FBD).
Starting in version 2021, the Stress Linearization tool has been renamed as Extract-Linearize and will support both the
Extract Data and Stress Linearization methods.
Use the Hotspot Finder tool to find critical regions of your model based on a plotted result, filter the entities based
on selection set, threshold values, minimum separation, and load cases. In addition, you can plot the search results with
annotations and selective amount of details displayed on screen.
Query entities, create or edit free body diagrams, construct multiple curves and plots from a single result file, and
create and plot stress linearization.
Use the Hotspot Finder tool to find critical regions of your model based on a plotted result, filter the entities based
on selection set, threshold values, minimum separation, and load cases. In addition, you can plot the search results with
annotations and selective amount of details displayed on screen.
Review the hotspot search results in a tabular form by clicking the table icon
.
A table containing a hotspots list is displayed in the modeling area.
Optional: Undock the table from the guide bar to drag and move it around the screen, by
clicking the icon on top right corner of the table.
Show or hide the hotspots from the modeling window using the row
highlighter.
Figure 1.
To show additional data in the hotspot review table, right-click on the column
header in the table and select the required data about the hotspot.
Figure 2.
You can also hide the unwanted components from showing up in the hotspot tour,
by clicking the icon on the guide bar to open the Show hide
tool.
After selecting the components or elements to hide from screen, right-click
twice to get back to the Hotspot Finder guide bar and hit the Play button.
Note: The entities hidden using this option will stay hidden as long as you
are in the hotspot tour.
Change the hotspots viewing mode using the drop-down menu on the guide
bar.
Figure 3.
The Global view category consists of view modes that will show the
hotspots in the perspective of the entire (global) model. All hotspots from the
current query will be shown and depending on the choice of mode, selected or
entire details around the hotspots will be shown. The masked portions will be
shown using transparency to provide a global perspective.
Navigate through the hotspots using the First,
Previous, Next, or
Last buttons located on the guide bar .