HyperWorks Desktop

HyperWorks Desktop is an integrated user environment for modeling and visualization. It can be used for finite element and multi-body dynamics simulation. It combines several applications in one environment. HyperMesh is available in the Desktop as well as in the traditional standalone mode.

HyperMesh is a high-performance finite element pre- and post-processor for major finite element solvers, which allows engineers to analyze design conditions in a highly interactive and visual environment. HyperMesh’s user-interface is easy to learn and supports the direct use of CAD geometry and existing finite element models, providing robust interoperability and efficiency. Advanced automation tools within HyperMesh allow users to optimize meshes from a set of quality criteria, change existing meshes through morphing, and generate mid-surfaces from models of varying thickness.

Benefits

•	Reduce time and engineering analysis cost through high-performance finite element modeling and post-processing

•	Reduce learning time and improve productivity with an intuitive user-interface and best-in-class functionality

•	Reduce redundancy and model development costs through the direct use of CAD geometry and existing finite element models

•	Simplify the modeling process for complex geometry through high-speed, high-quality auto-meshing

•	Support numerous commercial solvers by providing direct interfaces to a wide array of analysis codes ensuring the best code can be used for specific situations

•	Cost-effective pricing to deliver maximum functionality for your software investment

•	Solver specific user preferences

HyperView is a complete post-processing and visualization environment for finite element analysis (FEA), multi-body system simulation, video, and engineering data. Amazingly fast 3-D graphics and unparalleled functionality set a new standard for the speed and integration of CAE results post-processing. HyperView enables you to visualize data interactively as well as capture and standardize your post-processing activities using process automation features. HyperView also saves 3-D animation results in Altair's compact H3D format so you can visualize and share CAE results within a 3-D web environment using HyperView Player.

Benefits

•	Reduce time and cost associated with engineering analysis through a high performance intuitive graphical interface

•	Improve productivity through industry leading performance for 3-D graphics

•	Reads CAE native data files: OptiStruct, RADIOSS, MotionSolve, HyperForm, LS-DYNA, PERMAS, MADYMO, MARC, PAM-CRASH, Nastran, Abaqus, ADAMS, ANSYS, IDEAS

•	Direct readers for many CAE solvers as well as the Altair H3D compressed binary format

•	The XY plotting power of HyperGraph

•	A custom interface and specialized tools to fit your engineering environment

•	Gain new insights through:

-	Synchronized results visualization for FEA and multi-body animation, XY plotting, and video data

-	Multiple CAE models overlaying in one window

-	Visualized animation types such as adaptive meshes and multi-body dynamic models with flex bodies

•	Linked to HyperView Player for web communication and collaboration

•	Value-priced, through the HyperWorks unit system, to deliver maximum functionality for your software investment

MotionView is a general purpose pre- and post-processor and visualization tool for mechanical system simulation including industry-leading capabilities for assembly management, data management and flexbody modeling. It provides the ability to create hierarchical models to any depth through the re-use of system definitions including leveraging its native parametric data capability. MotionView provides an efficient and easy to use interface including a large number of modeling utilities to maximize users’ productivity. In addition, through the use of its TCL automation layer, MotionView enables users to create and re-use scripts and custom user interfaces. MotionView is integrated in a single environment that also includes state of the art post-processing, DOE and optimization, and math processing capabilities.

Benefits

•	Reduces time and cost associated with engineering analysis through a high-performance intuitive graphical interface for multi-body dynamics modeling and post-processing

•	Allows for easy re-use of system definitions and assemblies to allow one model to be used as a subsystem within another model

•	Provides built in data management capability through the HyperWorks Collaboration Tools, including file versioning, history, check-in and check-out

•	Easily capture your CAD based information through “CAD Import”, allowing for streamlined reading of part graphics, inertial values and free points.

•	Enables an automated process for generating flexbodies based on an FE input deck

•	Efficient and intuitive user flow through the context menu driven interface

•	Build and analyze suspension and vehicle models using the standard vehicle library

•	Automatically reformat MBD loads results into RADIOSS and NASTRAN solver formats

•	Export to a variety of solvers such as MotionSolve, ADAMS, Abaqus or create your own solver writer

•	Customize MBD modeling and solution environment using Templex and TCL

HyperGraph is a powerful data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many popular file formats. Its sophisticated math engine is capable of processing even the most complex mathematical expressions. Different plotting methods of real and complex data based on time and frequency domain are available through Cartesian, Polar, and 3-D Waterfall plots.

Functionality is easily accessible right under the mouse, using the state-of-the-art plot browser, from user-defined menus, and via standard Windows user interfaces. Any analysis session, including sessions integrated with other HyperWorks applications, can be run as an automation process over and over again for processing new sets of data. HyperGraph combines these features with high-quality presentation output and customization capabilities to create a complete data analysis system for any organization.

Benefits

HyperGraph supplies design, test, and analysis engineers with an intuitive plotting and data analysis package. HyperGraph’s combination of an easy-to-use interface and robust suite of automation tools enables engineers to view and analyze data more efficiently, which:

•	Minimizes the time needed to generate plots - the customizable automatic plot builder generates a family of fully labeled plots in user-defined layouts, from data file(s) using file header and channel information

•	Eliminates repetitive tasks - plot macros capture and automate common mathematical expressions

•	Eliminates repetitive plot generation - report templates can capture and automate the building of entire pages of data plots

•	Provides a fully customizable interface - customize the interface and the tools to fit any engineering environment

•	Enables users to add mathematical functions to Altair’s robust mathematical library

•	Reads CAE native data files: OptiStruct, RADIOSS, MotionSolve, HyperForm, LS-DYNA, NHTSA ABF, MADYMO, PAM-CRASH, Nastran, Abaqus, ADAMS, DADS, and SIMPACK

•	Contains readers for a variety of X-Y and 3-D data formats and can generate curves and 3-D surface plots from mathematical expressions using an extensive math library

•	Enables a 3-D plotting environment that is fully integrated with HyperWorks for managing, reviewing, and analyzing 3-D plots such as, waterfall, surface, and 3-D line data.

•	Provides features for building and analyzing waterfall data including order calculations, visualization, and plotting orders in XY plots. Waterfall plots support magnitude versus frequencies or orders versus time or magnitude

•	Allows conditionally formatted summary tables that support mathematical expressions linked to curves

•	Includes over 200 built-in math functions focused on CAE including data filters and 10 sanctioned injury calculations

•	Calculate orders by scaling, DFT, or resampling the response data.

•	Provides a rich tool set for querying 3-D plots. Both planar and surface sections can be passed through 3-D data to generate section cut plots. Other query tools are as easy to use as clicking on the data to view X, Y, Z values. Zooming in on data retains display of axis values.

•	Publish to PowerPoint: establishing a connection between HyperGraph and PowerPoint allows the user to publish HyperGraph sessions to PowerPoint presentations and update these later when new results are loaded into HyperGraph. The changes made in PowerPoint will be preserved.

•	Exports HTML session: enables users to write out HTML report directly to HTML format

•	Include high quality image captures of 3-D Plots in reports and presentations.

•	Provides tools to automate data analysis and report generation - process automation tools enable users to overlay sequential test and simulation results for visualization and analysis

•	Lies on an open architecture driven by a Tcl command layer. Additional math functions, file readers, dialogs, pull down menus, and right-click menus can be easily added.

The HyperWorks Collaboration Tools (HWCT) are a set of features providing users with the ability to organize and manage all of their simulation data and files. Available out-of-the-box with the HyperWorks Desktop and HyperMesh, HWCT is ideal for individual users desiring personal data organization and management and for small teams of users wishing to collaborate throughout the simulation life cycle.

Standard HWCT functionality includes:

Explore

•	Explore dialog, integrated into all native HW file dialogs allows for easy searching and retrieval of files

•	Automatic extraction and indexing of simulation files' metadata for both simple and complex searches

•	View file properties

Organize

•	Organize simulation data and files into libraries

•	Browse personal and team libraries to find and retrieve contents

•	Retain pedigree via full version control and lifecycle operations

Connect

•	Seamlessly access Parts, CAD, and Bills of Materials stored in corporate PDM systems

•	Download and import directly into HyperWorks

•	Publish simulation data (e.g. meshes, solver decks, results) back to PDM

Benefits

•	Organized simulation data and files for work in progress

•	Comprehensive search capabilities

•	Access to latest up-to-date CAD and CAE data

•	Traceability between CAD/PDM and CAE/Simulation

HyperCrash is a CAE pre-processor developed to support RADIOSS, LS-DYNA and PAMCRASH. HyperCrash provides a comprehensive environment to study occupant simulations and other requirements of the crash-safety domain.

Features

HyperCrash features include:

•	Extensive pre-processing capabilities for LS-DYNA and RADIOSS.

•	Ongoing support of RADIOSS (up to 2017) and most keywords.

•	Robust tools for easy conversion of input decks from LS-DYNA to RADIOSS with minimal user intervention.

•	Support of PAM CRASH 2G as well as conversion from PAMCRASH to RADIOSS.

•	Extensive tools for crash-safety applications: model building, property and material creation, connection definition, quality checking, and more.

•	Full suite of welding techniques such as glue, bolts, and spot welds.

•	Results Mapper module for mapping metal-forming results.

•	Key Safety modules: dummy positioning, seat deforming, belt generator, and airbag folding.

•	Extensive library of LS-DYNA and RADIOSS dummies with advanced positioning and seat-belt routing tools.

Benefits

HyperCrash provides these benefits:

•	Improves user efficiency with intuitive pre-processor interface.

•	Minimizes errors in LS-DYNA and RADIOSS with a reliable model check on the input deck.

•	Enables easy checking and removal of penetrations and intersections.

•	Offers numerous tailored panels to help users create and update the many cards needed to setup LS-DYNA and RADIOSS models.

MediaView plays and displays video files and static images. Playback of video files is synchronized with HyperView model animations plus HyperGraph plots for data comparison and analysis. Video playback can be automatic or manually controlled. During manual playback, videos can be controlled by clicking on XY curve locations to see the corresponding frame in the video.

TextView provides both powerful math script processing plus a text editor. It is an integrated application in HyperWorks Desktop. TextView’s math scripts can reference vector data from HyperGraph 2D and 3D windows for automating data processing and data summary.

HyperMath is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for producing and executing custom scripts. It consists of a set of features to support the need for authoring, debugging, testing, and executing user-written scripts in HyperMath language and in TCL.

Benefits

•	HyperMath language to create scripts

•	A feature rich environment for authoring and visualizing scripts. It provides syntax highlighting, smart indentation, code folding, bookmarks, auto-completion and breakpoints (for debugger)

•	Execution and visualization of script outputs within the IDE

•	Interactive visual debugging of scripts by inspecting variables and tracing execution path of the code, all without writing any additional code

•	Easy management of scripts by grouping them in projects and retrieving them as a whole as needed. Also easy access to script files on disks from within the IDE

•	A catalog of all available HyperMath libraries

•	Accessible from HyperWorks™ Desktop suite of products for cross debugging scripts within the same environment

Templex is a general-purpose text and numeric processor. It generates output text based on guidelines defined in a template. Templex can be used to create templates for:

•	Mathematical programming

•	Data extraction, analysis, and formatting for reports

•	Creating re-usable input templates

Templex is run in batch mode from the command line and is also built into HyperMesh, MotionView, HyperView, HyperGraph, and HyperStudy. Templex is used in MotionView, HyperView and HyperGraph to create fully annotated notes and labels capable of performing data analysis and curve statistics within a plot window. It also makes the text editor built into these products a powerful numeric scratch pad.