Altair HyperXtrude 2019 Release Notes
New Features
Metal Extrusion
- Bearing Region Choke and Relief
- In order to study the effect of different choke and relief angles, both the solver and the interfaces are enhance to apply choke and relief on a model meshed with parallel bearing. User can specify the choke length, choke angle, relief length, and relief angle. This value will be applied in the bearing friction module even though the geometry has no choke or relief in the CAD data.
- Automatic Report Generation
- Solver will automatically create a report for profile nosecone analysis. The report generator has an expert system that captures the knowledge we gained over several years helping customers analyze and optimize extrusion dies. The most important feature here is the flow network diagram that is used to explain material flow and heat transfer through different sections. This report is in PDF format. This explains different aspects of the die, how the material flows during extrusion and its influence on extrusion load, temperature changes, flow imbalance, and productivity.
Polymer Extrusion
- Residence Time
- Solver computes residence time from the flow field. It is enhanced to account for dead zones and dead elements (elements with all nodes on wall) and help the user to visualize this result correctly.