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The Tools menu allows you to access the following options:

Option

Description

Accelerometer

Create and edit time history ACCEL cards to track accelerometer output requests.

ADMAS Manager

Display all masses or individual masses in the model. Create and edit simple and advanced mass formulations. View, find attached, and update details of individual ADMAS, though the card editor and the Admas panel.

Analysis Options

Setup the model analysis in the model and define model analysis cards.

Apply Initial Metric

Apply an initial metric to the model.

Auto Contact

Create one or more contact interfaces at once between several parts of your model.

BCs Manager

Create boundary conditions of any load collector type other than ACTIV.

Card Edit

Select entity sets, blocks and titles whose card images you wish to view or edit.

Clone Part

Create a new part from the properties of an existing part.

Component Table

Create, edit and review the components in the model.

Contact Manager

Create contact pairs and manage existing contact pairs.

Convert

Convert data from one user profile to another by:

selecting the solver format you wish to convert from, and then selecting the solver format you wish to convert to.

or

selecting Convert Panel, which directs you to the Convert panel where you can exchange data between different solver formats.

Count

Obtain a count of all of the FE entities in the model database.

Create

Create new entities using the Entity Sets, Blocks, Tags and Titles Create subpanels

Control Cards

Add input and output parameters to the model.

Create Part

Create components.

Delete

Delete entity sets, blocks, tags and titles from the model database.

DDAM

Setup a DDAM analysis.

Dummy Positioning

Position a dummy and save the settings to a transformation file, which you can later apply to a dummy to bring it into a final position without user interaction.

Edit

Modify existing entities using the Entity Sets, Blocks, Tags and Titles Update subpanels.

ET Types Table

Create HyperMesh card images for ANSYS element types.

Fatigue Process

Create or open a fatigue analysis setup process.

Find and Replace

Search the entity names in your model for every occurrence of a specific character, and automatically replace the character with a new one that you specify.

Find Connectivity

Checks the connectivity between two or more components.

Freq Resp Process

Setup a frequency response analysis.

ID-Manager

Manage an FE model's IDs consistently in the part level, sub assembly level and global level.

Load Collector Table

Review and edit load collectors.

Load Step Browser

Create, manage and display loadsteps (sub-cases) and the associated control cards.

Mass Manager

Create, edit and review masses in the model.

Material Table

Create, edit and review the materials in the model.

Model Checker

Check the quality of elements in the model, and check the model for errors and warnings.

Matrix Browser

Explore HyperMesh and HyperView data entities, and export entities to external files for further analysis.

Organize

Re-organize your database by copying or moving entity sets, blocks and titles among collectors or includes.

Organize Xlinks

Organize LINK-type elements among components.

Orientation Review

Display/review and modify frequently used coordinate systems used in CAE analysis.  

Part Info

Summaries a part's statistics in the Part Information dialog.

Part Replacement

Replace elements in an existing component/part with new elements, and restore the referenced items in the original model to the new part.

Position

Specify a new position for model entities.

Pretension Bolt

Create pretension loads in 1D and 3D bolts of ANSYS models using the ANSYS PRETS179 element type.

Pretension Manager

Create and edit 1D and 3D pretension bolt loads and bolt sections.

HyperMesh currently supports an OptiStruct Pretension Manager and a Samcef Pretension Manager.

Property Table

Create, edit and review the properties in the model.

Rbody Manager

Display all rigid bodies or individual rigid bodies in the model. Create and edit simple and complex rigid body formulations. View and update details of individual rigid bodies, though the Card Editor and the Rigids panel.

Real Sets Table

Create property card images for elements defined with the ET Type macro.

Reflect

Reflect portions of a model about a place, changing the selected portions into a mirror image of itself.

Relative Displacement

Create the TH/SPRING card, which supports time histories with spring output.

Renumber

Renumber entity sets, blocks, tags and titles in your model database.

Rotate

Rotate entities around an axis in space.

Scale

Increase or decrease the dimensions of an entity.

Section Table

Create and define section cards.

Set Browser

Automate the grouping and display of model components through the entity set functionality.    

Solid Face Alignment

Determines the default stack or thickness direction for Abaqus composite solid, gasket and continuum shell elements. Select solid elements to review. Delete the stack (or thickness) direction arrows.

Solver

Run an external program from within HyperMesh or assign and run a solver on selected analysis decks.

SPH

Generate SPH elements using the SPH Meshing tool.

Spl. 2nd Order

Convert a first-order meshed part to a special second-order meshed part.

Substructures Tool

Create and modify substructures.

Summary Template

Obtain a summary of component element counts or element properties in the current model.

Transformation Manager

Manage the definition of transformation applied on the nodes and elements in order to easily position the entity using a combination of scale, rotate, and translate and symmetry functions.

Transformation Tool

Translate, scale, reflect or rotate elements with multiple numbers of copies including properties and loads attached to them.      

Translate

Move entities in a single specified direction.