How to show / activate the utility ribbons in Hypermesh 2024

IngeniosIT

Dear all,

As far as I can remember in the previous versions of Hypermesh / Hyperworks, I can activate an utility panel where I can add personnalised TCl macro shortcuts...

In Hyperworks 2024 / Hypermesh mode, I can't find this panel. Is it a normal situation / evolution or is this a bug ?

Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

Antoine

Michael Herve

Hello @IngeniosIT ,

 

starting 2024, Utility panel has been dropped. 

It has beeen replaced by Extensions:

https://community.altair.com/community/en/develop-and-deploy-your-custom-solutions-faster-with-hyperworks-2022-1?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0120189

HW v2022.2 Multi-client Extensions for Ribbons, Dropdowns and Toolbars - HyperWorks Scripts & Customizations, HyperWorks, HyperGraph, HyperView, HyperMesh - Altair Products - Altair Community

 

These 2 articles contain a demo Extension as attachment.

You can find couple of extra Extensions in Altair Exchange:

Altair Exchange - Altair Community

(use filter Category = Extension)

 

Also, there is a utility you can use in 2024 to convert your former userpage.mac as a raw xml extension file, you can tune in later:

 

Hope that helps,

 

best Regards,

Michael