New Applications
solidThinking® Click2Extrude™ is a simulation environment designed to help extrusion companies meet the ever increasing demands to produce complex profiles with tight tolerances, quality surface finishes, and high strength properties at reduced cost. Click2Extrude is a virtual press where users can visualize material flow and temperature inside a die during extrusion and make necessary changes to ensure balanced flow, while identifying and eliminating product defects.
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solidThinking® Click2Extrude™ is a simulation environment designed to help extrusion companies meet the ever increasing demands to produce complex profiles with tight tolerances, quality surface finishes, and high strength properties at reduced cost. Click2Extrude is a virtual press where users can visualize material flow and temperature inside a die during extrusion and make necessary changes to ensure balanced flow, while identifying and eliminating product defects.
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solidThinking® Click2Form™ is a virtual environment for early stamping feasibility analysis based on part or tooling geometry. It allows you to look at thinning and formability issues as well as estimate blank shape and maximize material utilization via blank fitting and nesting utilities.
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Altair ConnectMe is a tool that provides a window based launcher, Altair software update alerts, and Altair News. It provides a single place to search, filter, launch, and update Altair products.
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Hardware and Platform Changes
Support for the following platforms has been added:
| • | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 |
| • | SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Service Pack 1 |
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Support for the following platforms has been dropped:
| • | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 |
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Installation
HyperWorks 2017 suite contains several independent product packages. This gives you the flexibility to download desired packages as needed. Any HyperWorks 2017 standalone SA update package can be installed either on top of an existing 2017 installation, or can be installed independently without the prerequisite of a 2017 base. Multiple product SA updates can now be installed concurrently with or without the 2017 base.
HyperWorks 2017 brings with it the robust capabilities and features of HyperWorks 14.0 installers, as well as additional support for HotFix installers. These HotFix installers are quick patch type installers that are used to install on top of a prerequisite base installation, unlike the other full installers. These are marked with the word “hotfix” in the installer name and bring with them the quick fixes and features to better suit your needs.
| • | Added Altair digital signature to key executable files in HW Desktop and Solvers |
| • | Added Click2Extrude Metal product for Windows |
| • | Added Click2Extrude Polymer product for Windows |
| • | Added Click2Form product for Windows |
| • | Added Linux support for Virtual Wind Tunnel |
| • | Upgraded the HyperWorks installers to InstallAnywhere 2015 SP1 web installers |
| • | Improved the Windows uninstallers |
| • | Improved error logging when the master installer is used |
| • | Standardized MPI implementations: The versions of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) have been standardized across FEKO, AcuSolve, RADIOSS, and OptiStruct. The Intel, IBM Platform, Microsoft, and MPICH MPI implementations are now included. End users can still use their own MPI implementation. |
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| • | Added file associations for .hm, .mdl, and .mvw to open in HyperWorks Desktop |
| • | Added thumbnail preview for .hm files |
| • | Added better font size management for the HyperWorks Desktops applications, including HyperMesh under Linux user environment where the default size is set to a 9 point font instead of using a pixel font size |
| • | Added Linux launch icons to HyperWorks applications |
| • | Updated Linux Compatibility Tool: A Linux utility for system diagnostics to help troubleshoot Linux issues |
| • | Added better version information to the shortcuts for the Windows 8.1 Start Menu and Metro style Start Menu |
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| • | Improved the Start Menu folder removal portion of the HyperWorks uninstallers. |
| • | Resolved an issue where the Help Configuration panel was skipped when clicking the Previous button from the Pre-Installation Summary panel. |
| • | Resolved an issue where Start Menu shortcuts were not overwritten on Windows 7 when overwriting an existing HyperWorks installation and Start Menu folder. |
| • | Improved the Linux console mode installations. |
| • | Improved error logging when the master installer is used. |
| • | When installing using the master installer, you can now cancel your installation at any time |
| • | On Linux during a console mode install, the installer will now allow users to go back past the Install Pick List panel. |
| • | On Linux, when installing using the console mode, the Help Configuration prompt will no longer add another set of double quotes on the user-defined path to installed help if the back command is used. |
| • | On Linux, there are no longer duplicate progress install bars when the back command is used from the Summary Panel. |
| • | Corrected Linux “read + execute” permissions of the sub installers are set when using the master installer. |
| • | Resolved graphics issues on Optimus based video card setups. |
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| • | Using the Back/Previous option during an installer may not reset the installer variables correctly if changes are made and the install session is continued. |
| • | On Linux, installing in a directory with spaces is not supported. |
| • | On Linux, during a console mode install, when using a response file output command -r the Help Configuration in the response file may not write out correctly. |
| • | If there is not enough TMP/TEMP space on the main drive (for example, C: under Windows), then the installer will prompt for user input to a new location. Some Java TMP/TEMP space will still try to go to the main drive even when selecting this new location. |
| • | When clicking on the Cancel button to stop an installation via the Master installer does not clean up the already installed files, but does clean up the files in the TMP/TEMP folder. You will need to uninstall/delete the installed files from the chosen install folder manually if Cancel was used. |
| • | When clicking Cancel to stop an installation the Add/Remove uninstaller icon may no longer function correctly and manual removal of the installed files would be necessary. |
| • | The HyperWorks installers do not support the use of the default InstallAnywhere installer.properties files. We request that a unique name is used when using a response file; for example, installer_hw2017.properties, and to use it with the -f <path_to_file>/<filename> command line option. |
| • | For NETSETUP client installs from a server installation of HyperWorks, a UNC path must be used to get to the Server installation path through Windows Explorer or Windows Network. Note: using mapped drive letters or variables is not currently supported in the client installer. |
| • | On Linux, there is an issue with using the Master installer with the IATEMPDIR variable, to specify a custom temporary directory location. All sub-installers will try to use /tmp from the machine running the installers for temporary installer files. |
| • | With some versions of Gnome, there is a bug where the Linux icons are not placed in a hierarchy. Instead, they are placed in “Other” with a flat layout, meaning that all the icons appear at the same folder level in “Other.” |
| • | The installer does not run the Linux icon installation by default; the user must run the icon installer. |
| • | On Windows 8, desktop and Start Menu icons are blank for server and client installations. This can be resolved by changing the Windows File Explorer policy to “Allow the use of remote paths in file shortcut icons”. |
| • | When the master installer is used, desktop shortcuts, if any, will not be removed during uninstallation. |
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