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HyperWorks Desktop 13.0.116 Release Notes 1 Proprietary Information of Altair Engineering HyperWorks Desktop 13.0.116 Release Notes Introduction HyperWorks Desktop13.0.116_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh, HyperView, HyperGraph, HyperForm and NVH (Packaged Solution Offering). The details are documented below. Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.116_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of HW 13.0.110 and includes HyperWorks Desktop13.0.115_hotfix. HyperMesh New Features and Enhancements Connectors A new “opposite” link option has been added to control seam connector behavior. The option will search for the two opposite links as opposed to the two nearest links for realization. A new grouping mechanism is available which can group the links as a result of hexa adhesive (seams and areas) absorption. The option is available in the absorption dialog (solid seam and area only). A grouplink is created after absorption which is organized so that it differentiates between the realizations top and bottom side connectivity. Resolved Issues General Application crashes while updating a property when spherical clipping along with 3D visualization of shell elements are on. Crash associated while picking geometry in the graphics area using selection tools available in the action mode toolbar of Model browser. HyperView New Enhancement Abaqus 2016 ODB result files are supported in HyperView. The minimum Windows and Linux versions supported are WIN7 SP1, Linux RedHat 5.5 and SUSE Enterprise11 SP2. Note: For this hotfix release, we are labeling Abaqus 2016 ODB reader as 6.15. Resolved Issue HVTrans application stops without any error while converting large ODB files. HyperGraph New Enhancement Abaqus 2016 ODB result files are supported in HyperGraph. The minimum Windows and Linux versions supported are WIN7 SP1, Linux RedHat 5.5 and SUSE Enterprise11 SP2.

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HyperWorks Desktop

13.0.116 Release Notes

Introduction

HyperWorks Desktop13.0.116_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh, HyperView,

HyperGraph, HyperForm and NVH (Packaged Solution Offering). The details are documented below.

Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.116_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of

HW 13.0.110 and includes HyperWorks Desktop13.0.115_hotfix.

HyperMesh

New Features and Enhancements

Connectors

A new “opposite” link option has been added to control seam connector behavior. The option

will search for the two opposite links as opposed to the two nearest links for realization.

A new grouping mechanism is available which can group the links as a result of hexa adhesive

(seams and areas) absorption. The option is available in the absorption dialog (solid seam and

area only). A grouplink is created after absorption which is organized so that it differentiates

between the realizations top and bottom side connectivity.

Resolved Issues

General

Application crashes while updating a property when spherical clipping along with 3D

visualization of shell elements are on.

Crash associated while picking geometry in the graphics area using selection tools available in

the action mode toolbar of Model browser.

HyperView

New Enhancement

Abaqus 2016 ODB result files are supported in HyperView. The minimum Windows and Linux

versions supported are WIN7 SP1, Linux RedHat 5.5 and SUSE Enterprise11 SP2.

Note: For this hotfix release, we are labeling Abaqus 2016 ODB reader as 6.15.

Resolved Issue

HVTrans application stops without any error while converting large ODB files.

HyperGraph

New Enhancement

Abaqus 2016 ODB result files are supported in HyperGraph. The minimum Windows and Linux

versions supported are WIN7 SP1, Linux RedHat 5.5 and SUSE Enterprise11 SP2.

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Note: For this hotfix release, we are labeling Abaqus 2016 ODB reader as 6.15.

Abaqus Interface

New Enhancement

Abaqus 2016 ODB reader support has been added for HyperView, HyperGraph and HVtrans. The

minimum Windows and Linux versions supported are WIN7 SP1, Linux RedHat 5.5 and SUSE

Enterprise11 SP2.

Note: For this hotfix release, we are labeling Abaqus 2016 ODB reader as 6.15.

Resolved Issue

Export/import of input deck leads to an extra space in the name of materials in HM session.

OptiStruct Interface

New Enhancements

PORO option is added under fluid element flag (FCTN) in PSOLID property.

Poro-elastic material MATPE1 is enhanced to include BIOT factor.

Nastran Interface

New Enhancements

New material MATPE1 is added including BIOT factor.

PORO option is added under fluid element flag (FCTN) in PSOLID property.

HyperForm

Resolved Issue

Discontinuous mesh created along the edges during hole filling operation.

NVH Packaged Solution Offering

New Enhancements

Analysis Manager

o Enhancement for export / import of Analysis definitions in template CSV file

o Enhancement related to setting up Center of Motion (CoM) based AutoTPA, where both

transfer functions and forces are defined based on the connection center of motion point

in the connection element local coordinate system

Module States

o Support of Non-Structural Mass (NSM) for Module States Definition

o Enhancement in States handling to support NSM in batch model reduction

Assembly Browser

o Enhancement to show Property View in Assembly browser to show mass and damping

values for modules

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o Enhancement for export / import of Module States definitions in the template CSV file

Connection Realization Panel

o Enhancement in connection realization based on selected connections, custom label and

states

o Color coding to show connection realization state

Enhancement in handling damping definition in Edit Module, Batch Prepare and CMS-SE

Enhancement in connection ID forcing

o Model specific and Global preference settings

o Possibility to force IDs for CoM grids and corresponding connection elements

o Color coding to show connection realization state

Enhancement to convert test FRFs in UNV file format into CDS reduced representation files

New warning message incase XML file save fails

Transfer Path Analysis

o Enhancement to plot force vectors for one step TPA results

o Performance improvement in response calculation and plotting for spindle loads TPA

Added stochastic analysis capability (available in NVH Director PSO) for

o Modal / Panel participation

o Transfer path analysis

o Loads Randomization

Resolved Issues

Issue of HM crash due to large number of unsupported cards being populated in the entity

editor GUI in Nastran user profile

Issue in discrepancy in connector property values on realization between analysis manager &

connector realization panel

Issue in generating solver decks for autoTPA in case all connections are of type rigid

Issue in exporting isolator properties in template csv files in which static PBUSH properties were

defined in dynamic PBUSHT category

Issue related to updating of SPOINT starting ID in batch model reduction after model update

Issue in handling states in analysis manager incase representation file name has embedded

blanks

Issues related to XML file corruption on deleting modules owning referenced entities

Issue related to XML import crash due to PLOTEL3/4s used in LP templates in NVH-Nastran User

Profile

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HyperWorks Desktop

13.0.115 Release Notes

Introduction

HyperWorks Desktop13.0.115_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh, HyperView

and HyperGraph. The details are documented below.

Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.115_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of

HW 13.0.110 and includes HyperWorks Desktop13.0.114_hotfix.

HyperMesh

New Features and Enhancements

CAD

Support added for NX 10.0 (third-party reader)

Support added for PTC Creo 3.0 M040

Connectors

For Nastran/OptiStruct a new CWELD (general) realization has been added. This realization type

consolidates all former cweld realization types in one type and provides further enhancements.

As in the past GA-GB is supported, GS is differentiated into GS (point to face) and GS (face to

face). For GS, the user can precisely control if the GS node needs to be placed on a certain

close node or if it has to be re-centered between the connected parts. The creation of cwelds of

type GRIDID now supports the SPTYPE Q and T properly.

For the Nastran/OptiStruct spot realization type CWELD (GA-GB ELEMID), a new option

“centered quad” has been added. With this option activated, a mesh modification is performed

during the realization to guarantee, that the CWELD nodes are close to CQUAD centroids.

Further control attributes are provided, e.g. desired quad size and centroid tolerance.

Resolved Issues

General

Resolved a rare crash when deleting components containing solid geometry.

CAD

Resolved issues where certain CATIA v5-6R2014 (R24) files were incorrectly identified and

would not import

Robustness improved for SolidWorks 2015

Connectors

The import of area connectors via XML-format created non-visible temporary nodes.

Meshing

Resolved a crash when opening a new file while the quality index panel was active.

Crash related to selecting nodes by window in edit element panel

Resolved an issue where the Coarsen Mesh tool would occasionally split coarsened quads to

trias.

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HyperView

Resolved Issues

Graphics issue when overlaying and animating FEMZIP result files.

Incorrect stress results shown on axisymmetric elements in ODB result files.

HyperGraph

Resolved Issues

Binary output (binout) from LS-DYNA release 8 could not be read correctly because the legend

size was longer than expected.

Resolved several issues in reading LS-DYNA ELOUT ASCII files. Different number of lines

between data block prevented the reader from plotting the data correctly.

RADIOSS Interface

Resolved Issue

In advanced selection provided the ability to select entities found within the box entity (nodes,

elements, lines, surfaces…). *createmark can now be used with the box entity.

OptiStruct Interface

Resolved Issue

CONEL value is set to blank by default in PFPATH card.

Abaqus Interface

Resolved Issues

Incorrect material/property assignment upon import if solver file has mixed HM comments and

no HM comments.

Export issue with *Beam General Section is fixed.

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HyperWorks Desktop

13.0.114 Release Notes

Introduction

HyperWorks Desktop13.0.114_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh,

HyperGraph, HyperView, MotionView, HyperCrash and NVH (Packaged Solution Offering). The details

are documented below.

Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.114_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of

HW 13.0.110 and includes HyperWorks Desktop13.0.113_hotfix.

HyperMesh

New Features and Enhancements

Connectors

A new option has been added to the spot connectors. It uses normal direction of the closest link

to determine links. In certain situations with many small component patches like rib patterns,

wrong links were identified. With this option activated, the link determination follows a search

direction.

For certain CWELD types the option “centered quad” has been added. If activated, a centered

quad is created on both sides of the CWELD around the projection points. The mesh is very

locally remeshed to satisfy this request. The quad size can precisely be defined.

HyperGraph

Resolved Issues

In polar plots, the phase angle will no longer change when the reference value for magnitude is

unequal to 1 for dB-scaled curves.

When different start- and end- index values are used in the same session, using the BuildPlots

panel to trim the curves during import of the curves could have been empty.

LS-Dyna Interface

Resolved Issues

An application error occurred after import if the include file skip option was used and include file

of type TRANSFORM was present in the model

In material type *MAT_GENERAL_SPRING_DISCRETE_BEAM a random number was added in

the GLCID field during import if the field was blank

Deleting a cross section while in review mode lead to a crash

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Nastran Interface

Resolved Issues

File read issue with ANSA comments related to color and name

Import error related to BCPROP

Abaqus Interface

Resolved Issue

Export error with *Beam Section property without HyperBeam section is fixed

MotionView

Resolved Issue

Create Deformable Surface macro could not create closed surfaces.

HyperCrash

Resolved Issues

The application crashed when deleting a both bolt connector if some rigid body were defined by

BOX in the model

The application crashed if surfaces were referring to unresolved BOX

XY data of curves could not be parametrized anymore

Triangular elements were displayed as solid elements after merge operation if certain actions

were performed prior to merge: isolating a property with triangular elements or using advanced

review in the part replace report.

The number of integration point were not exported for initial stress and initial plastic strain in

RADIOSS V13 user profile

NVH Packaged Solution Offering

New Enhancements

Analysis Manager

o Reorganization of the GUI for editing Analysis items and Analysis Solution Definition

o Performance improvement in Analysis Manager in invoke, edit and apply

o Implementation of scroll bar in Analysis Manager for easy visualization of Analysis and

Solution definition

o Support of solver deck in Analysis Manager for Frequency Response Analysis

o Enhancement for auto recognition of PANELs for Grid and Panel Participation Requests

o Form of output request is ‘Phase’

o Enhancement in Modal Participation request to define system and component modal

participation

o Support for CMS and Modal Energy output request

o Implementation of Active Analysis Definition while saving and launching of Analysis

Manager

o Addition of Debug Section in Analysis Manager to define Debug parameters

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o Support of subcase name in loading strength UI of Analysis Manager to allow spindle

loads definition in TPL file

Batch Model Reduction

o Enhancement of GUI for visualization and review of modal parameters: number of grids,

number of modes, first frequency and last frequency

o Enhancement in the name of input solver deck generated from batch model reduction

with rep file name integrated into module name

o Enhanced Batch Model Reduction SE organization with option to specify location for

saving the SE-result file before assigning it as module representation

o Automatic assignment of DMIGDV files

o Support of States (MPCs and SPCs) in batch model reduction

o Enhancement in batch model reduction in case of separate master and display rep files

for modules

Batch Module Prepare

o Enhancement in handling detailed FE rep and display model rep in case display model is

exported into a separate file after batch prepare

o Option for damping validation

o Selector to auto select modules with assigned IDs but not validated

Manual Module Prepare

o Enhancement to prepare and save detailed FE model and display model in case of

separate master and display rep files for modules

o Enhancement in damping tab with list of materials for damping review and assignment

Connection Realization

o Enhancement in exporting owned LCS definition of connection in template CSV file

o Connection realization variations

Single PBUSH

RBE2-Coincident PBUSH-RBE2 (new enhancement)

Single RBE2 (new enhancement)

RBE2-Coincident RBE2 – RBE2

o Enhancement related to reconciliation of connection force ID and connector id saved in

xml file

o Support of connection name matching in connection mapping tool

Network View

o Enhancement for export / import of Network View definition in template CSV file

o Option to reset all connection size to the select one

o Option to switch on/off module ID ranges

Modal Assurance Criteria

o Enhancement in handling complex modal data

Energy Distribution Analysis

o Support of NX-Nastran results in OP2 format

o Enhancement related to highlighting of selected contributors from display options in

graphics area

Resolved Issues

Issue related to SPOINT component definition created for grounding of modal models

Issue in going back to Assembly Browser on closing Edit Module window, incase connection

browser is opened after assembly browser

Issue in connections related to node dependency and location after batch prepare

Issue related to sorting of template list for loading point selection in a Frequency Response

solution type

Issue in loading TPA configuration file

Issues related to import / export of node mapping pairs in Modal Assurance Criteria

Issue related to application error in Batch Prepare While Trying to Save a Write Protected

File/Folder

Issues related to resizing of GUIs in Linux before vital buttons are seen

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Issues in Analysis Manager with large models:

o Black Strips on launching analysis manager

o Resize of analysis manager GUI on launch

Issues related to incorrect warning message for re-position node when picking nodes to define

tagpoints

Issue related to updating Connection switch Nodes Status

Application error while trying to create Constraints in Prepare Module mode

Application error in Analysis Manager while skipping modules

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HyperWorks Desktop

13.0.113 Release Notes

Introduction

HyperWorks Desktop13.0.113_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh,

HyperGraph, HyperView, MediaView, Model Identification Tool and NVH (Packaged Solution Offering).

The details are documented below.

Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.113_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of

HW 13.0.110 and includes HyperWorks Desktop13.0.112_hotfix.

HyperMesh

New Features and Enhancements

General

Within the browser include view, a new include file export option to control comments is

available.

CAD

CATIA v5-6R2015 (R25)

PTC Creo 2.0 M140 and 3.0 M030

SolidWorks 2015 on Windows and Linux (2014 on MAC)

o There is a known third-party library issue where reading certain SolidWorks 2015 files

may crash the application. Please exhibit caution and save your work before reading

any SolidWorks 2015 files.

Resolved Issues

General

Crash related to binary file save for models containing incorrect hierarchy.

CAD

Resolved a JT reader issue where certain solid geometries were not editable after import into

HM.

Connectors

Absorption of hexa seam and area connectors in conjunction with the usage of the “consider

single element cluster” option have been improved.

The feature angle is no longer updated to 46 degrees after certain solid absorptions occur.

The seam and area hexa adhesive realization types for OptiStruct and Nastran will no longer

generate RBE2 elements, only RBE3 elements, in the case of a direct projection.

Graphics

Application was crashing while reflecting rigid elements.

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“By Face” selection for large number of elements is showing performance issues.

Application crashes while using “By Face” selection after masking elements.

Improved show/hide performance for groups.

HyperView

New Feature and Enhancement

Support of PamCrash 2014

Resolved Issues

HyperView 3Dconnexion support while animating on Windows has been fixed.

Display of element marks under Preferences->Options ->Visualization was not working.

View synchronization of windows was not working properly for certain models.

Application crash when viewing stress results on a frequency response model with complex

corner data.

Unexpected hang of HV when model file or h3d contains assembly information with circular

referencing (e.g. Assembly 1 is both parent and child of Assembly2).

Issue with HyperView running separate concurrent sessions on a multiple GPU system under a

Linux system was fixed. This also resolves issues with Display Manager running HyperView with

multiple concurrent sessions.

HyperGraph

Resolved Issues

In complex plots the conversion from real/imaginary to phase/magnitude for db-scaled complex

curves with a reference value will calculate the correct magnitude.

Notes attached to dB-scaled complex curves no longer disappear at the moment a reference

value is assigned to the dB-scaling.

Notes which are attached to a dB-scaled phase/magnitude complex curve with a reference value

now show the corresponding y-axis value when the expression {y} is used and no longer the

unscaled source value.

Notes attached to the magnitude of complex curves will keep their attachment point when a

session is saved and reloaded.

Complex curves based on math references for dB-scaled curves with a reference value were

scaled twice in previous builds. This issue is fixed.

In the Build Plots panel, the pop-up window for X-requests now supports the same filter

features as for Y-requests.

Performance for reader metadata support, which is required to use the Comparison and/or

Highlight Source Entity tools has been improved for files which contain millions of

curves. Specifically:

o For files with less than 300,000 metadata sets, we read the metadata in by default

o For files with more than 300,000 metadata sets we do not read metadata.

o If the user wants to read the metadata for files with more than 300,000 metadata sets,

or skip the reading totally the limit can be adjusted by setting an environment variable

HG_METADATA_LIMIT = <limit number of metadata sets>. There will be a performance

penalty if this setting is utilized with a higher limit.

o For HyperGraph 14.0 we intend to make this environment variable obsolete.

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In 13.0, when saving a template after reading a Dyna file that had labels for IDs, both the label

and ID information would be saved in the template file. This caused overlay issues, since the

template tried to match both Label and ID. The behavior has been reverted back to the pre-

13.0 behavior, wherein only the Label information, and not the actual ID, is saved in the

template. The ID now gets added as an attribute of the curve as metadata.

o If the user wants to load a session/report created with the 13.0 default setting into

13.0.113 he has either set the environment variable DYNA_REQUEST_TYPE to NAME_ID

or delete the ID’s manually out of the requests in the session/report file.

LS-Dyna Interface

Resolved Issue

Include files with long names are now written out in master file during export.

Problem reading multiple d3eigv files

RADIOSS Interface

Resolved Issue

Application crashed during export if the model contained corrupted array.

PamCrash Interface

New Feature and Enhancement

Support of PamCrash 2014.

OptiStruct Interface

New Features and Enhancements

Added AMSES Amplification Factor support in CMSMETH card.

Create Contacts by Property is available, user can now assign BCPROP to BCBODY.

Added support of output request for component modal synthesis & modal energy outputs.

Nastran Interface

Resolved Issues

Include files with long names are now written out in master file during export.

Application error related to an Include export from include browser view.

Include files with unsupported cards are now organized to respective includes.

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Abaqus Interface

Resolved Issues

For Nastran to Abaqus conversion, if PbeamL, Pbeam, Pbar or Pbarl has a hyperbeam section

assigned, during conversion the relation is lost. The relation maintained during conversion.

Duplicate property in different include leads to component property lose during import. This has

been fixed.

Performance of Nastran to Abaqus conversion has been improved.

Samcef Interface

New Features and Enhancements

Users can define real number to define the time step of a non-linear analysis.

Between the initial and the final time step, intermediate times could be defined.

MediaView

Resolved Issue

If a video contains negative time values the correct time is now displayed in the Animation

Control Panel and not Undeformed or Undefined.

HyperCrash

New Features and Enhancements

Provided the ability to convert parallelogram cross section (/SECT/PARAL) to circular cross

section (/SECT/CIRCLE) through the change subtype functionality in the section panel.

Updated property type 8, 13 and 25 as per Radioss V12.0.210.

Updated sensor of type interface (/SENSOR/INTER) as per Radioss V12.0.210.

Resolved Issues

Connection extraction was failing when some of the connections needed to be unrealized after

extraction process.

Rigid bodies defined with cylindrical or spherical box were corrupted in replace, export selection

or update operation.

/DAMP and /DAMP/INTER were not correctly implemented as per the Radioss V12.0.210

manual.

Rigid body with master node defined on an element and with Icog=3 or 4 were incorrectly

reported as error.

Switching on detailed mode slowed down the application when many circular beam

property/section were defined in the model.

Updating adhesive, welding lines and other continuous connection defined on more than 2

layers was not possible.

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NVH Packaged Solution Offering

New Features and Enhancements

Support of RPM based forces in Transfer Path Analysis Utility

Enhancement in the connection realization logic in Analysis Manager for realized connections

with no change in State or Property

Resolved Issues

XML import performance issue related to Job Manager GUI

Issue related to handling of damping modification in ascii file generated for CMS-SE

Issue related to template change in the existing Analysis definition. The value from the old

template are not cleared and shown even after loading the new template

Issue related to incompatible display representation getting when using alternative master

representation

Issue in MAC utility in handling complex data

Model Identification Tool

New Features and Enhancements

Support umlaut characters in spd file

This release includes support for umlaut characters in spd file. MIT now can read the files with

umlaut characters and can be used in fitting.

Documentation enhancements

With this release, we have enhanced our documentation with better explanation. The

enhancements are as follows.

1. The description of the models in the help is improved. Provided better explanation for all

the rubber and hydro bushing parameters.

2. Documented fitting process. Added documentation for static curves, friction parameters.

3. Added documentation for calculating dynamic stiffness and loss angle. Explained Analyze

process in details and its purpose.

4. Included explanation for how static stiffness derived from stiffness curve.

Matplotlib live fitting monitor enhnacements.

Added intuitive text boxes for live fitting monitor and gives user an idea of what is happening in

the fitting process for every step.

MIT batch mode using python scripts.

MIT batch mode supported using python scripts in windows and Linux.

Resolved issues

Analyze and Fitting results mismatch.

There was a mismatch with fitted results and analyse results. This is fixed in this release.

Erros while analysing the bushing

Tk errors while analysing the hydro mount bushing is fixed in this release.

MIT help doesn't come up even after clicking "Help" button in MIT dialog

Invoking help from MIT gui has an issue and it is fixed.

MIT decode report is not working in linux

Creating pdf report from GBS file is not working in Linux and it is fixed.

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Improved initial guess values of GBS and OPT files

Input gbs and opt files are modified with better initial guess values for global optimisation.

Hydromount fit does not use OPT

Fixed an issue with fitting code which is not using user provided opt file.

Rotational Z direction Models ignore user GBS/OPT

Fixed an issue with fitting code which is not using user provided gbs and opt files for TZ

direction.

Flex disk models units display in HG is not correct at the vertical axis

Fixed an issue with units for rotational direction bushing test files, those are showing mm

instead of degrees.

Equations for rubber bushing and hydromount bushnigs in GUI are incorrect

Modified the images for rubber and hydro mount bushings in MIT gui.

The algorithm we use to derive the cubic polynomial from the static stiffness data can cause

parts of the cubic to have negative stiffness.

Now we are prompting with a warning message at the time of loading spd file.

Rotational direction plots are displaying units as m instead of degrees.

This issue if fixed with proper units display while plotting the test data in HG.

Parameter EPSILON in GBS is unused and needs to be removed.

Now the epsilon is not writing out in GBS file. GBS reader and writer has been modified to fix

this issue and all the input files are changed accordingly.

Parameters in different order in GBS and OPT files.

Now parameters are in same order across the input and output files of MIT code.

Input SPD to MIT and Input SPD to FIT tool do not match.

Now input and output spd files are in the same order. spd writer code change has fixed this

issue.

Input SPD to MIT and Input SPD to FIT tool do not match.

Now input and output spd files are in the same order. spd writer code change has fixed this

issue.

The algorithm we use to derive the cubic polynomial from the static stiffness data can cause

parts of the cubic to have negative stiffness. Now we warn the user while loading the test data

in to MIT tool.

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HyperWorks Desktop

13.0.112 Release Notes

Introduction

HyperWorks Desktop13.0.112_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh,

HyperGraph, HyperCrash and NVH (Packaged Solution Offering). The details are documented below.

Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.112_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of

HW 13.0.110.

HyperMesh

New Features and Enhancements

CAD

Support of NX 10.0 (native reader)

Resolved Issues

General

Resolved an issue where reading .hm files would reverse the order of geometric entities in the

databaseNew component creation with in Assembly hierarchy

Node picking while doing a quick model rotation has been resolved

Updates to the 3Dconnexion spacemouse support for HyperMesh has been updated with the

following changes/fixes:

1. The rotation speed handling has been updated to work directly through the driver

settings

2. Consistency in the way both products handle similar sized models

3. 3Dconnexion driver button mapping support updated for HyperMesh

4. Supporting newer wireless spacemouse devices from 3Dconnexion

NOTE: Minimum driver requirement is 3DxWare 10.2.3.

HyperView

Resolved Issues

General

Updates to the 3Dconnexion spacemouse support for HyperView has been updated with the

following changes/fixes:

1. The rotation speed handling has been updated to work directly through the driver

settings

2. Consistency in the way both products handle similar sized models

3. 3Dconnexion driver button mapping support updated for HyperView

4. Supporting newer wireless spacemouse devices from 3Dconnexion

NOTE: Minimum driver requirement is 3DxWare 10.2.3.

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HyperGraph

Resolved Issues

The mismatch of types and requests in Dyna binout file for abstat_cpm airbag results has been

fixed.

Even when the “Autofit Plot” option in the Flexible Report panel was switched off all plots

besides the first plot on the first page where auto-fitted. Now the option works as expected.

When fit was performed in 13.0.110 on a plot either during curve import or via the 2D View

Controls for some curves the axis min and max values were exactly like curve end points values

and not nicely rounded. This hotfix brings back the 13.0 behavior.

LS-Dyna Interface

Resolved Issue

An issue in the Dyna reader prevented HyperMesh from reading includes if the path was defined

with back slash (\).

HyperCrash

Resolved Issue

All the curves referenced in a material law or property could be lost if those curves were

reviewed before saving the modification.

NVH Packaged Solution Offering

Resolved Issue

Fixed a regression issue in NVH network view functionality in 13.0.111, where tagpoint symbols

and owning module arrows are not showing, and module and connection information is not

displayed in the message window when hovering with mouse

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HyperWorks Desktop

13.0.111 Release Notes

Introduction

HyperWorks Desktop13.0.111_hotfix contains enhancements and bug fixes for HyperMesh, HyperView,

HyperGraph, HyperCrash and NVH (Packaged Solution Offering). The details are documented below.

Note: HyperWorks Desktop13.0.111_hotfix is a cumulative release. It should be installed on top of

HW 13.0.110.

HyperMesh

New Features and Enhancements

CAD

Enhanced the IGES @PropertyAsGroup option to additionally support files coming from ANSA

14.X and later

Added JT support to the cadassm utility

Connectors

New realization method “hexa (tapered T)” is added for Ls-Dyna user profile

Resolved Issues

CAD

Resolved a problem where certain degenerate surfaces were being written to IGES files

Improved the reliability of NX metadata import for surface edges under certain conditions where

metadata was previously being lost

General

New component creation with in Assembly hierarchy

Resolved a performance issue when deleting surfaces with the “delete associated solids” option

enabled

Resolved an application error with the FBD Export Manager when exporting FBD Displacement

or Resultant Force and Moment results

Resolved crashes with the *createentity, *createentitysameas and *setvalue commands when

an invalid syntax is used

Resolved crashes when the -nomenuset option was used at HM startup

Meshing

Resolved multiple issues in the quality index panel that could potentially lead to crashes. These

crashes often showed up after performing editing operations in the quality index panel, and

then performing element remeshing in the automesh panel.

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The quality index panel node and element optimize operations have been fixed to honor

component boundaries

Resolved a crash when performing solid map operations on second order elements

Resolved a performance issue that would occasionally appear to hang the application when

performing element-based re-meshing when geometry was present

NVH

Fixed an issue with the “MPC Creation Between Cavities” tool (*acm_mpc_create API) where

patched holes were not properly being considered

HyperView

New Features and Enhancements

The text CornerData will be displayed in the legend title if the result plot is generated using

such data. Previous versions of HV did not provide this information in the legend.

Video Overlay Enhancements:

Significant improvements have been made to the video overlay (Image Planes) functionality in this

release of HyperView. It is now possible to achieve a good overlay of Model and Video/Image by a

multiple point alignment scheme or by providing the properties of the camera that was used to

capture the image.

The multi-point alignment method has been added as a new tab under the 2D Image Plane section

and it works by allowing the user to pick points (pairs of pixels in the image and corresponding

nodes in the model). A minimum of seven points are required as input. It is also recommended that

points are picked at different depths and preferably towards the center of the image/video. The GUI

will show a dynamically updating error value to indicate to the user the quality of the selected

points. HyperView will then use the points to adjust the model size and orient it in the appropriate

view so that a good alignment is achieved between the model and the image/video.

In addition to the multi-point alignment method, one can also now input the camera position and

camera properties such as focal length, sensor height, if it is available, through the views entity in

the browser. This provides a more direct way of achieving alignment between model and image. A

new projection type under views called Lens has been added for this purpose.

Resolved Issue

Last load case missing in H3D containing envelope of all load cases.

HyperGraph

Resolved Issue

For some ISO files, units for acceleration was picked up as m/sec2 when the units were in g’s.

This has been fixed now.

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OptiStruct Interface

Resolved Issue

Regular and Formula sets are now retained as is during import and export

Abaqus to OptiStruct conversion issue related to OptiStruct CBUSH local system assignment

when converting CONN3D elements from Abaqus.

Nastran Interface

Resolved Issue

Sequential export of CQUAD elements

LS-Dyna Interface

New Enhancements

The cross section entity is newly introduced in 13.0.111. The following keywords are mapped to this

entity: *DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION_SET; *DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION_PLANE. These keywords

were supported prior to 13.0.111 but were mapped to a different entity (Group). Upon import the

following behavior is implemented:

Solver deck: these keywords will be automatically mapped to the new entity without loss

Legacy HyperMesh file: these keywords will be mapped from the old to the new entity without

loss

Note: As this entity is newly introduced in 13.0.111, a HyperMesh file saved in 13.0.111 cannot be read back in

prior versions without loss. The keywords mapped to these new entity will be lost. To reduce the risk of data loss it

is recommended to:

Uninstall prior 13.0 versions after installing this hotfix

Export the solver deck if data needs to be exchanged between 13.0.111 and prior versions

Full support of *DEFINE_BOX_LOCAL

New entity for *DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION:

o Resolved ID renumbering upon import that occurred if a cross section shared the same

ID as a contact for example.

o Offset defined in *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM is now taken into account

o Enhanced graphical representation and review for cross sections

Improved performance and accuracy of the tied contact status check (nodes tied / untied from

model checker)

In the find attached subpanel a checkbox allows to take into account tied contacts in the search

for connected elements

I/O support of encryption for *DEFINE_CURVE

Resolved Issues

*DEFINE_TABLE is not be listed in the curve editor anymore

The transformation applied through *NODE_TRANSFORM were not applied in the correct

sequence

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RADIOSS Interface

New Enhancements

Two entities are newly introduced: CrossSection and Box. The following keywords are mapped to

these entities:

CrossSection: /SECT; /SECT/CIRCLE; /SECT/PARAL

Box: /BOX/RECTA (RADIOSS)

Some of the keywords listed above were already supported prior to 13.0.111 but were mapped to a

different entity. Upon import the following behavior is implemented:

Solver deck: these keywords will be automatically mapped to the new entity without loss

Legacy HyperMesh file: these keywords will be mapped from the old to the new entity without

loss

Note: As these entities are newly introduced in 13.0.111, a HyperMesh file saved in 13.0.111 cannot be read back

in prior versions without loss. The keywords mapped to these new entity will be lost. To reduce the risk of data

loss it is recommended to:

Uninstall prior 13.0 versions after installing this hotfix Export the solver deck if data needs to be exchanged between 13.0.111 and prior versions

User scripts pointing to the old entity for /SECT can be updated to create the new CrossSection

entity by adding the following lines are the end of the script:

set path [hm_info -appinfo SPECIFIEDPATH

hm_scripts_dir]//radioss//sections//ConvertOldSectionKeywordsToNewCrosssectionKeywords.tcl

source $path;

Full support of /BOX/RECTA:

o This keyword is supported through the introduction of a new entity (BOX)

o Support both the old and new format (RADIOSS V11 and after) of this keyword

o Autofit function allows to automatically compute the size of the box based on the content

that is displayed

o Resolve the renumbering that occurred in both import and export of set of BOX

Full support for /SECT/PARAL and /SECT/CIRCLE:

o Support import, creation and modification of these new type of sections

o Resolved ID renumbering upon import that occurred if a cross section shared the same

ID as a contact for example

o Enhanced graphical representation and review for cross sections

In the find attached subpanel a checkbox allows to take into account tied contacts in the search

for connected elements

HyperCrash

Resolved Issues

The cross section type /SECT/PARAL and /SECT/CIRCLE were translated if a single node

belonging to the element sets referred in those cross sections was selected for move. The

condition has been modified such that the cross section will be moved only if all the nodes of

the elements referred in the cross section are selected for move.

When extracting connections from the model if a connection was found to contain more than 1

part but these parts used the same property/material then some of extracted elements were

deleted from the model

The statistic panel in the LS-Dyna profile showed incorrect information

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Organizing entities using the function “move entities to include” in the right click contextual

froze the session

NVH Packaged Solution Offering

New Features and Enhancements

Analysis Manager

Reorganization of GUI for easy visualization and handling of multiple analysis definitions

Loading strength definition using CSV/UNV/DAT files

Support enhanced infrastructure for module STATE definitions (MPCs and SPCs)

Option to toggle between selection / restore modal parameter modification option for reduced

models

Batch Model Reduction

Capability to create CMS and CDS SE for a control volume assigned to a parent module

Allows dependent points to be used as CMS SE attachment (A-set orC-set) points which are

Automatically converted to independent points by OptiStruct

Check and correct connection type tagpoints mis-identified as plot type when determining

attachment point set

Bath Module Prepare

Option to export coarse display model into a separate file after batch prepare

Option to load the whole model or just the module last prepared in batch prepare and manual

prepare

Assembly and ID management enhancement

Saving and rendering of LP representation definitions in template csv file

Locking of node ID outside module ID range

Entry field for locking tagpoint with specified ID in the edit tagpoint dialog

Module States

Option to define multiple state sets and multiple states to each state set

Support for state definition with multiple MPCs and SPCs for each state set

Support for selecting enhanced states in Analysis Manager

XML file path replacement

Automatic mapping of modified and/or missing XML file paths and folders

Job Manager

Entry field for run options is Job Submission GUI

Normal modes template

Option to specify Eigen Value Solution type: AMSES, LANCOZ, AMLS

Option to specify normal mode extraction for fluid modes

Option to set on/off element checking criteria

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Transfer Path Analysis

Performance improvement in Spindle Loads TPA

Equivalent Radiated Power

New utility to post process results of exterior structure-borne radiated sound

Post processing of broadband noise in terms of octave / 1/3 octave, 1/6 octave, etc.

Resolved Issues

Issue in two-step TPA for multiple subcases in Force File having different frequency ranges

Issue related to application error during batch mesh coarsening in case where representation

file already had 2D plotels elements

Issue related to automatic change of Connection location type to Custom Location

Issue related to Application Error while defining loading strength in General Frequency Response

Process Manager

Issue related to METHOD card creation in Transfer Function Solver deck from Traditional TPA

Process Manager

Issue related to unrealization of realized connections while trying to apply Analysis States

without choosing option to realize connections

Issues related to duplicate elements creation after batch prepare for certain model files

Issue related to Transfer Path Analysis in TF-Unv / Force-PCH and TF-Unv / Force-Unv format

files

Issue related to HM crash when running Batch Prepare and file (write protected with matching

name) exist in export

Issue related to disappearing Analysis Definition

Issue related to xml import failure after small modification

Issue related to assignment of CMS-H3D as representation to a module (Volvo specific)