The Tools menu allows you to access the following options:
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Description |
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Accelerometer |
Create and edit time history ACCEL cards to track accelerometer output requests. |
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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. |
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Analysis Options |
Setup the model analysis in the model and define model analysis cards. |
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Apply Initial Metric |
Apply an initial metric to the model. |
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Auto Contact |
Create one or more contact interfaces at once between several parts of your model. |
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BCs Manager |
Create boundary conditions of any load collector type other than ACTIV. |
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Card Edit |
Select entity sets, blocks and titles whose card images you wish to view or edit. |
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Clone Part |
Create a new part from the properties of an existing part. |
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Component Table |
Create, edit and review the components in the model. |
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Contact Manager |
Create contact pairs and manage existing contact pairs. |
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Convert |
Convert data from one user profile to another by:
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Count |
Obtain a count of all of the FE entities in the model database. |
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Create |
Create new entities using the Entity Sets, Blocks, Tags and Titles Create subpanels |
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Control Cards |
Add input and output parameters to the model. |
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Create Part |
Create components. |
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Delete |
Delete entity sets, blocks, tags and titles from the model database. |
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DDAM |
Setup a DDAM analysis. |
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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. |
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Edit |
Modify existing entities using the Entity Sets, Blocks, Tags and Titles Update subpanels. |
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ET Types Table |
Create HyperMesh card images for ANSYS element types. |
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Fatigue Process |
Create or open a fatigue analysis setup process. |
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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. |
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Find Connectivity |
Checks the connectivity between two or more components. |
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Freq Resp Process |
Setup a frequency response analysis. |
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ID-Manager |
Manage an FE model's IDs consistently in the part level, sub assembly level and global level. |
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Load Collector Table |
Review and edit load collectors. |
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Load Step Browser |
Create, manage and display loadsteps (sub-cases) and the associated control cards. |
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Mass Manager |
Create, edit and review masses in the model. |
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Material Table |
Create, edit and review the materials in the model. |
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Model Checker |
Check the quality of elements in the model, and check the model for errors and warnings. |
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Matrix Browser |
Explore HyperMesh and HyperView data entities, and export entities to external files for further analysis. |
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Organize |
Re-organize your database by copying or moving entity sets, blocks and titles among collectors or includes. |
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Organize Xlinks |
Organize LINK-type elements among components. |
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Orientation Review |
Display/review and modify frequently used coordinate systems used in CAE analysis. |
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Part Info |
Summaries a part's statistics in the Part Information dialog. |
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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. |
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Position |
Specify a new position for model entities. |
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Pretension Bolt |
Create pretension loads in 1D and 3D bolts of ANSYS models using the ANSYS PRETS179 element type. |
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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. |
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Property Table |
Create, edit and review the properties in the model. |
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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. |
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Real Sets Table |
Create property card images for elements defined with the ET Type macro. |
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Reflect |
Reflect portions of a model about a place, changing the selected portions into a mirror image of itself. |
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Relative Displacement |
Create the TH/SPRING card, which supports time histories with spring output. |
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Renumber |
Renumber entity sets, blocks, tags and titles in your model database. |
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Rotate |
Rotate entities around an axis in space. |
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Scale |
Increase or decrease the dimensions of an entity. |
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Section Table |
Create and define section cards. |
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Set Browser |
Automate the grouping and display of model components through the entity set functionality. |
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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. |
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Solver |
Run an external program from within HyperMesh or assign and run a solver on selected analysis decks. |
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SPH |
Generate SPH elements using the SPH Meshing tool. |
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Spl. 2nd Order |
Convert a first-order meshed part to a special second-order meshed part. |
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Substructures Tool |
Create and modify substructures. |
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Summary Template |
Obtain a summary of component element counts or element properties in the current model. |
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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. |
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Transformation Tool |
Translate, scale, reflect or rotate elements with multiple numbers of copies including properties and loads attached to them. |
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Translate |
Move entities in a single specified direction. |