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ALTAIR HyperMesh
Improve Your Productivity by Customising HyperMesh to Fit Your Environment
HyperMesh incorporates a variety of tools for seamless integration into any existing engineering process.
Configure the HyperMesh interface: Customise the layout of HyperMesh's menu system through an easy to use interface
Basic macros: Users can create macros that automate a process or series of steps
Export templates: These allow the HyperMesh database to be written out to formats that non-supported solvers and programs can import
Input translators: Extend HyperMesh's interface support by adding your own input translators for reading different analysis data decks
Custom utilities: Users can take advantage of the power within the Tcl/Tk toolkit to build custom applications fully integrated with HyperMesh
Geometry Interfacing and Cleanup
HyperMesh provides direct access to a variety of industry-leading CAD data formats for generating finite element models.
| CATIA V4/V5 |
ACIS |
| I-DEAS |
IGES |
| PRO-ENGINEER |
PARASOLID |
| UNIGRAPHICS |
STEP |
Moreover, HyperMesh has robust tools to clean (mend) imported geometry containing surfaces with gaps, overlaps and misalignments which prevent automeshing and high quality mesh generation.
By eliminating misalignments, holes and suppressing the boundaries between adjacent surfaces, users can mesh across larger, more logical regions of the model while improving overall meshing speed and quality. Boundary conditions can be applied to these surfaces for future mapping to underlying element data.
Model Building and Editing
HyperMesh presents users with a sophisticated suite of easy-to-use tools to build and edit models. For 2D and 3D model creation, users have access to a variety of mesh generation panels besides HyperMesh's powerful automeshing module. Automatic midsurface generation, a comprehensive laminate modeller and morphing (stretch existing FE meshes to new design geometries) offer new levels of model manipulation
The surface automeshing module in HyperMesh is a robust tool for mesh generation that provides users with the ability to interactively adjust a variety of mesh parameters for each surface or surface edge. These parameters include element density, element biasing, mesh algorithm and more. Element generation can be automatically optimised for a set of quality criteria.
HyperMesh can also quickly automesh a closed volume with high-quality first or second order tetrahedral elements. The tetra-mesh module uses the powerful AFLR algorithm. Users can control element growth options for structural or CFD modelling requirements, select tria or quad elements for tetrahedral generation and re-mesh local regions.
Model setup and assembly is easy with HyperMesh. Weld models using connectors, create contacts, apply boundary conditions and set up solver runs quickly within the HyperMesh interface.
CAE Solver Interfaces
HyperMesh supports a host of different solver formats for both import and export. Along with fully-supported solvers, HyperMesh also provides the flexibility to support additional solvers via a complete export template language and C libraries for development of input translators.
| OptiStruct |
RADIOSS |
| ABAQUS |
PAMCRASH |
| NASTRAN |
MADYMO |
| ANSYS |
MARC |
| MOLDFLOW/C-MOLD |
I-DEAS |
| LS-DYNA |
Others |
HyperWorks Product Integration
HyperMesh adds value by directly integrating and communicating with the entire suite of Altair HyperWorks products. The functional capabilities of HyperWorks are directly accessible through the user interface.
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