What are some examples of automation in Hypermesh ?

Neil Handa

I am working on a project that uses Hypermesh software and have been given the task of automation. But I am confused as to where should I start with automating the tasks ? What tasks can be automated that will save the time of CAE engineers in my team. I am not from a mechanical engineering background so don't have much idea about how the software works but I am learning about TCL commands that can be used in scripts.

Any help would be appreciated

Michael Herve

Hello Neil,

when it comes to automation, I generally recommend the following steps:

- identify the repetitive tasks your team is encountering

- make sure you already use HyperMesh best practices for these tasks. For this step you can contact us through the support so that we can check with you if you are up to date.

- then if HyperMesh does not propose anything automated yet for your tasks, you can go with automation.

- also, make sure to define as precisely as possible the requirements of the automation. It is better to have the full specifications of your automation then to decompose and author first the simple tasks, rather than trying to do a one shot script and then collect feedback mentionning such or such use case is not supported.

 

Among the scope of automation, everything which is related to IO (need to pass csv files, proprietary formats, ... to HyperWorks environment) is generally a good starting point for automation.

 

We propose in our Altair How-To channel some videos showing some example of automations (both for pre and post-processing), and how we authored them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QkM8hI1vYk&list=PLGNemB0NFb0AXOgj3rPq929yZwXHQK63-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMeBNfEeIAk&list=PLGNemB0NFb0CCYd-36o6E_50bkTwhBl5L

 

Also, you can find on Altair Comunity, in the Exchange section several examples of scripts:

https://community.altair.com/community?id=altair_exchange

 

Hope this helps,

 

Best Regards,

Michael