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 1
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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