Discover the Hypermesh Aerospace Ribbon Part 2: Systems tools
Altair EmployeeIntroduction:
The aerospace ribbon offers a collection of tools developed by the aerospace field team to solve specific challenges faced in the aerospace field. However, it is available and useful for users in any field. This series of posts will document the capabilities of those tools and provide sample models to try them out yourself.
Catch up on Part 1 here
Please note:
These tools were written by Altair field support engineers. These functions are not tested and verified by the standard Altair software development process. However, the authors tested these functions and verified them for their customer's needs. Software groups will migrate these tools to core functions for future releases. Until then, the stability and performance of these functions is not guaranteed.
The Systems tools:
Found in the aerospace ribbon-> Systems, the purpose of these tools is to provide power coordinate system creation mechanisms. They are available in the Optistruct and Nastran interfaces only. The workflows and examples are shown below:
-Quick Coord Creation-> from Beam/bar element
A system is placed at the selected node, with x-direction oriented from the selected beam/bar element GA to GB, and Z-direction in the bar orientation of the bar/beam element property
-Quick Coord Creation-> from Shell
A system is placed at the selected node, with x-direction oriented to a second selected node. The Z-axis is provided by the sum of the normals of the selected 2D elements.
-Quick Coord Creation-> from Coord
An existing system is copied onto each selected node of an element selection.
-Quick Coord Creation-> from Material
A system is created at the selected nodes. Coordinate directions are defined by the sum of the material system vectors of the selected elements connected to the node.
-Quick Coord Creation-> from Element X
A system is created at the selected nodes. Coordinate directions are defined by the sum of the elemental system vectors of the selected elements connected to the node.
-Sync system HM to HV
A selected set of systems is copied from a Hypermesh window, to one or more Hyperview windows in the same session. Cylindrical systems are not supported.
Let me know in the comments if you have a suggested aerospace tool topic for part 3.😀