The Tools menu has the following functions:
Quickly find and open the tools, panels and browsers that are available from the menu bar pull-downs or from the Utility browser. |
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Explore HyperMesh and HyperView data entities and export the entities to external files for further analysis. |
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Display/review and modify frequently used coordinate systems used in CAE analysis. |
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Translate, scale, reflect or rotate elements with multiple numbers of copies including properties and loads attached to them. |
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Mapping CFD Loads |
Reads a Tecplot Results file and creates Nodal results file for use with the Linear Interpolation option. Utility to split TECPLOT results files written by FLUENT, StarCD, CFD++, and so on into all the solution components (present in the TECPLOT file) in a format compatible with HyperMesh’s Linear Interpolation reader. A typical TECPLOT results contains several simulation results (for example Pressure, Temperature, Velocity magnitude, and so on), one file will be created for each solution component, each file name contains a sub-string identifying the solution component. This function is accessible by clicking Tools > Linear Interpolation Pres/Temp. |
Linear interpolation - Pressure/Temperature |
The result file generated by the Mapping CFD loads function can be used in these panels to interpolate the result data on a mesh and define pressure or temperature loads for a FE analysis. |
Contour Loads |
Generates a contour plot of a load collector (for example mapped pressure or temperature values). Using Pressure - Signed in the Contour panel as data type maintains the sign of the pressure values, for example in case the values are given relative to a reference pressure. |
Write Centroids Offset |
Saves a text file containing lines with X Y Z values corresponding to the selected elements’ centroid coordinates offset by the specified Centroid’s offset value in the direction of the elements’ normals. Only 2D elements (trias/quads) are processed. This text file is typically used by CFD solvers to save simulation values at the X Y Z locations listed in each line. |
Create pyramids on the outer quad faces of components/collectors containing 3D/volume elements, or on 2D quad elements in which case pyramids are created on the side of the quads’ normals. |
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Centerline |
Extract a centerline of a tube-style geometry model. |
Create Cards |
This option is only available in the CFD (AcuSolve) user profile to define an input deck for AcuSolve. It creates volume/boundary components, materials and solver settings. The Solver browser can then be used to define the input deck in more detail. See AcuSolve Case Set Up. |