Altair HyperWorks: Build Models fast with Parts, Subsystems and Connectors
Model Build and Assembly Workflow
Overview
This video shows how to easily assemble a full system model. Driven by Parts, Subsystems and Connectors, the Altair HyperWorks™ model build and assembly workflow facilitates representation, revision and configuration management for subsystem and system level model building.
Enabling collaboration and greatly simplifying the management of subsystem and system level models of all sizes, learn how to easily manage multiple disciplines and domains in a single HyperMesh file.
Parts facilitate subsystem level model build and offer representation, revision, and configuration management.
Subsystems facilitate system-level model build and offer representation, revision, and load case management.
Connectors facilitate the automated joining of Parts and Subsystems. Powered by Connector Controls, easily manage multiple realization types and ensure consistency, robustness, and efficiency.
For more detailed information, see additional presentations below covering each topic in detail.
Note: Model Browser and Material Library updates, which complement the model build and assembly workflow, may also be of interest.
Parts
The webinar demonstrates how Parts form the entry point to the Altair HyperWorks™ model build and assembly workflow. Tightly integrated with PDM and facilitating traceability, Parts facilitate representation, revision, and configuration management.
Starting with PDM integration, the transition from CAD Parts to HyperWorks Parts is explained, as is Part Library and the collaborative environment that it facilitates. Revision management ensures that all team members can access the latest version of their parts on-demand, while representation management facilitates efficient multi-disciplinary model management.
The demonstration ends with the explanation of Altair’s new Shape AI-based Match tool which intelligently classifies and groups parts based on their geometric similarity.
Subsystems
The webinar demonstrates the capabilities of Subsystems. This is valuable for anyone assembling models or analysts who work with include files.
We discuss how and when to create Subsystems as well as various scenarios for reviewing or managing their content. Like Parts, Subsystems supports multiple representations, which facilitates management of different mesh densities, solver disciplines, or variants. Subsystem Library facilitates traceability of design changes so that a team can share the history and status of a model. Configuration management facilitates the definition of multiple load cases in a single model. Finally, enhanced workflows, such as connector management for subsystems, are also presented.
Connectors
The webinar demonstrates how to create and edit Connectors and Connector Controls. Focused on the newly introduced HyperWorks workflow, Connector Controls are utilized to efficiently create and realize connectors. General improvements in the handling of line connectors and adhesives are also presented, as are enhancements to the documentation.
Integration with Parts and Subsystems are also greatly enhanced. Connectors now support individual part configurations, connections of subassemblies and can be used for instanced parts.