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 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.
Use the Iso tool to display single iso values (iso surfaced for solids or iso line for
shells) dependent on results data.
The result data used to calculate the iso surfaces or values
can be specified independently of the result data selected in the Contour panel, even though
most of result selection options are similar to the contour options. Since an iso value is
independent of contour results, for OptiStruct design space
optimization results, you can apply a single iso surface for density, then contour stress
results on the generated iso surface. Combining contour, iso value, and transparent global
boundary geometry (shortcut key "T") is an excellent way to investigate hot spots of result
data. By varying the iso value slider bar, you can easily observe critical areas.