HyperWorks 12.0 Release Notes

HyperWorks 12.0 Release Notes
HyperWorks®, The Platform for Innovation, is built on a foundation of design optimization, performance
data management and process automation. HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation solution for rapid
design exploration and decision-making. As one of the most comprehensive CAE solutions in the industry,
HyperWorks provides a tightly integrated suite of best-in-class tools for modeling, analysis, optimization,
visualization, reporting and performance data management. Leveraging a revolutionary “pay-for-use,”
token-based business model, HyperWorks delivers increased value and flexibility over other software
licensing models. Firmly committed to an open-systems philosophy, HyperWorks continues to lead the
industry with the broadest interoperability to commercial CAD and CAE solutions.
HyperWorks 12.0 is the new version of Altair’s CAE software suite. It includes a large number of new
functionalities to support optimization-driven product design and predictive multi-physics analysis,
combined with a strong focus on usability and performance.
Modeling and Visualization Capabilities
The modeling and visualization tools in HyperWorks include:
• HyperMesh: A powerful tool for creating and understanding finite-element models
• HyperView: A general-purpose visualization tool for CAE results
• HyperGraph: A user-extensible plotting tool for CAE data
• MotionView: An open tool for understanding and improving multi-body systems
• HyperCrash: Specialized modeling environment for automotive crash and safety
• HyperWorks Collaboration Tools: simulation data organization and management
HyperMesh
HyperMesh 12.0 includes many enhancements to further strengthen core competencies and domainspecific
tools and to improve and automate CAE model build and simulation processes. Several new
features have been added to enhance HyperMesh’s shell and solid meshing capabilities that yield
significant reductions in model build times. To further reduce model build time, new connector realizations
are available that automate many steps needed to produce a high-quality, fully assembled model.
HyperWorks 12.0 sees major gains in workflow efficiency with regard to modeling of composite structures.
Usability
• More information added to the HyperMesh Include View
• Cross-Reference Browser enhancements
Geometry
• Updated interfaces include support for Catia V5-6R2012, UG NX 8.0, ACIS R21 and SOLIDWORKS
• Geometry export now includes STEP and Parasolid
• Solid editing: Cut with plane perpendicular to edge via X-edge selection manipulators
Meshing
• The new MidSurface Mesh tool enables direct extraction of a shell mesh from solid geometry and
applies the thicknesses to the corresponding meshed output.
• Thin Solids mesh enables the automatic hexa and/or penta dominant mesh for thin plastic or sheetmetal-type
parts