A part is an engineering representation of a physical part, and a part assembly is a group of part assemblies and/or
parts. Part Instances, which are recognized from PDM, are automatically converted to Part Instances on import into
HyperMesh.
The part assembly can be saved as a self-contained binary file, which will include the part assembly based hierarchy
and attributes such as components, properties, and materials.
The CAD representation is typically the original source of information of what a physical part will look like. It
forms the basis of the Common representation, which in turn is the basis of all subsequent discipline specific mesh
representations. A part can contain multiple representations.
Create your own user defined representation. User defined representations are saved to the settings and will be available
in subsequent HyperMesh sessions.
Parts and part assemblies without a UID cannot be saved to the Library. Considering this, the UID field in the Save Representation dialog is user editable.
Manage all of the IDs for the entities that you create, and define ID ranges for all of the entities in each Include
file in relation to the full model in order to avoid ID duplication.
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.
Use the Auto Contacts tool to determine contact interfaces between selections of components or elements. Based on
the user-specified options like proximity tolerance, surface creation method, main surface type, and secondary type,
the tool generates contacts based on set segments or node and element combinations.
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.
Part Assemblies can also be saved to the Library. This saves all parts as one Part
Assembly representation rather than individual Part representations. This enables
mesh connectivity between parts to be retained upon unloading and loading of the
Part Assembly.
In the Part Browser, right-click on part assemblies and
select Representations > Save from the context menu.
The Save Representation dialog
displays.
Change the Parts selection in the bottom left to Part Assemblies.
Edit the Major Revision and Study
Revision columns to reflect the intended revisions.
Select the Representation type.
To overwrite representations that already exist in the repository, select the
Overwrite available checkbox.
To only save parts locally, deselect the Save to Library
checkbox.