›› ABOUT

Altair HyperMesh is a high-performance finite element pre-processor that provides a highly interactive and visual environment to analyze product design performance.

With the broadest set of direct interfaces to commercial CAD and CAE systems, HyperMesh provides a proven, consistent analysis platform for the entire enterprise.

With a focus on engineering productivity, HyperMesh is the user-preferred environment for:

• Solid Geometry Modeling  • Shell Meshing  • Model Morphing  • Detailed Model Setup

• Surface Geometry Modeling   • Solid Mesh Generation   • Automatic mid-surface generation   • Batch Meshing

›› BENEFITS

A Powerful FEA Modeling Solution for the Enterprise

With the broadest set of direct CAD and CAE interfaces and the ability to define custom integrations, HyperMesh works seamlessly within any engineering environment.

HyperMesh provides a robust, common FEA modeling framework across the corporation - minimizing niche modeling tool investments and training costs.

High-speed, High-quality Meshing
With automatic and semi-automatic shell, tetra, and hexa meshing capabilities, HyperMesh simplifies the modeling process of complex geometries.

Increase End-user Efficiency with Batch Meshing and Automated Model Assembly
Batch Mesher technology eliminates the need to perform manual geometry cleanup and meshing thus accelerating the model development process.

Highly automated methods for rapid model assembly including the assignment and management of connections such as bolts, spot welds, adhesives and seam welds.

Interactive Feature and Volume-based Morphing for Geometric Shape Changes and Design Variable Definition
A flexible set of morphing tools allows users to modify legacy meshes without re-meshing to automate the investigation new design proposals.

Close the Loop Between CAD and FEA
Generate 3D CAD geometries from finite element models to communicate design direction to design and engineering teams.

›› CAPABILITIES

Best In Class Meshing
HyperMesh presents users with an advanced suite of easy-to-use tools to build and edit CAE models. For 2D and 3D model creation, users have access to a variety of
mesh-generation capabilities, as well as HyperMesh’s powerful automeshing module.

High Fidelity Meshing

• Surface meshing
  
• Solid map hexa meshing
  
• Tetra meshing
  
• CFD meshing
  
• SPH meshing

Mesh Morphing
HyperMorph is powerful solution for interactively and parametrically changing the shape of a finite element model. Its unique approach enables rapid shape variations on the finite element mesh without sacrificing mesh quality. During the morphing process, HyperMorph also allows the creation of shape variables, which can be used for subsequent design optimization studies.

Batch Meshing
Using Altair® BatchMesher™ is the fastest way to automatically generate high-quality
finite element meshes for large assemblies. By minimizing manual meshing tasks, this auto-meshing technology provides more time for value-added engineering simulation activities. BatchMesher provides user-specified control over meshing criteria and geometry clean-up parameters as well as the ability to output to customized model file formats.

CAD Interoperability
HyperMesh provides direct readers for industry-leading CAD data formats for generating finite-element models. Moreover, HyperMesh has robust tools to clean up (mend) imported geometry containing surfaces with gaps, overlaps and misalignments that prevent high-quality mesh generation. By eliminating misalignments and holes, and suppressing the boundaries between adjacent surfaces users can mesh across larger, more logical regions of the model while improving overall meshing speed and quality. Boundary conditions can be applied to these surfaces for future mapping to underlying element data.

• CATIA V4/V5
  
• IGES
  
• PRO-ENGINEER
  
• PARASOLID
  
• UNIGRAPHICS
  
• STEP
  
• ACIS
  
• JT Precise

CAE Solver Interfacing
HyperMesh supports a host of different solver formats for both import and export. Along with fully supported solvers, HyperMesh provides a completely tailored environment (user profile) for each supported solver. It also provides the flexibility to support additional solvers through a unique and straightforward interfacing language

Customize HyperMesh to Fit Your Environment

• Configure the HyperMesh Interface:
  Customize your modeling experience through an easy-to-use interface containing drag-and-drop toolbars, configurable pull-down menus and keyboard-controlled shortcuts.
  
• Custom Utilities: Create custom applications that are fully integrated within the HyperMesh interface.
  
• Solver Input Translators: Users can extend HyperMesh’s interface support by adding input translators to read different analysis data decks.
  
• Solver Export Templates: Export templates allow the HyperMesh database to be written out to user defined formats for non-supported solvers.

›› NEW FEATURES

Model browser

• Consistent model browsers for FEA pre- and post- processor products (HyperMesh, HyperView, HyperGraph, and HyperCrash)
  
• Quickly create selections of entities for use in panels, view controls and many other tasks.

Optimization Browser

• This easy-to-use browser makes it easy to setup multiple optimization problem definitions
  
• Use drag and drop operations to add optimization definitions to an optimization problem
  
• Save multiple optimization setups to a HyperMesh (.hm) session
  
• Easy export for optimization problems

1D Element Visualization
Modeling information for 1D elements can be visually verified for accuracy instead of reviewing text details of element and property card images.

Mesh flow
Generate a more orthogonal and quad dominated mesh pattern with a better Quality Index using the new mesh flow align and size options.

Interactive Solid Map Meshing

• Fully interactive mesh editing control of solids before mesh is actually generated
  
• User controlled mesh density, element type, and meshing method

Shrink Wrap Meshing
In addition to the existing shrink wrap meshing capabilities, HyperMesh can now:

• Performance improvement for all shrink wrap meshing algorithms
  
• Generate a solid (all hexa element) mesh for either the Loose or Tight shrink wrap algorithms
  
• Control the solid element proximity to the original mesh by specifying the minimum jacobian
  
• Updated the Tight shrink wrap algorithm to capture even more features automatically

SPH Meshing

• New functionality for creating Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and Finite Point Method (FPM) elements
  
• Utilize a many different mesh control features including a partial fill of a volume and direction control of the partial fill

Midsurfacing
Improved control of midsurfacing complicated geometry sections such as T-Connetions and X-Connections yielding more accurate midsurface creation

Solid Bolt Hole (Connector)
This connector type streamlines the creation of solid bolt elements from solid boltconnectors that create solid elements and will attach every node within a solid hole.

Automesh using free lines
Remeshing regions with user specified edge (free) lines to tightly control mesh flow and density. Using this feature ensures that nodes will be placed on the free lines.

Full support for UG NX6

Mesh Morphing
New Kriging based morphing enables:

• Large performance improvement for multi-directional model morphing.
  
• Meshes can be smoothly morphed or 'fit' to a surface or group of nodes.