LS-DYNA Utility Menu
The LS-DYNA Utility menu on the Utility tab is automatically loaded when you select the LS-DYNA user profile, and contains shortcuts and tools that can help simplify LS-DYNA tasks. Set the user profile from the User Profiles option of the Preferences menu.
The LS-DYNA user profile sets the FE input reader to DYNA KEY and loads the dyna.key (ver 971) FE output template and LS-DYNA Utility menu. Also, the graphical user interface becomes LS-DYNA focused, renaming or removing some panels and/or options. The entire ALE Setup is available only when the LS-DYNA user profile is loaded.
The LS-DYNA Utility menu contains a Tools menu in addition to the standard HyperMesh Utility menu. This menu includes special time-saving setup macros and other features that are specific to an LS-DYNA analysis. The following macros are available:
Checks the LS-DYNA data deck for errors. |
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Displays statistics of a selected part. |
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Creates a new part from the properties of an existing part. |
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Creates a new component quickly. |
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Convert To Rigid |
This macro converts a selected portion of elements to rigid. It performs the following:
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Find free |
Finds the welds (*Constained_Spotweld), rigids (*Constrained_Node_Sets & *Constrained_Nodal_RigidBody), and rigidlinks (*Constrained_Node_Sets and *Constrained_Nodal_RigidBody), and checks if any of its nodes are free (not connected to any other entities). The display is cleared and then only free 1d elements are displayed. |
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Find Fix Free |
Finds the welds, rigids, and rigidlinks that are free as described above (Find free macro) and corrects them. These elements are corrected as follows: All 2-noded rigid and weld elements that have one free node are deleted. For the rigidlink elements that have free nodes, those nodes are removed from the rigidlink element. A check is performed for any rigidlinks with only one node and they are deleted. |
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Fix Incorrect |
Finds
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RLs With Sets |
The macro, RLs with Sets, finds all the rigid and rigidlink elements that are not attached to a set and converts them so that they are attached to a set. |
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Displays a tabular list of all the components that exist in the model along with their properties and materials. |
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Create and edit materials. |