Overview of external readers and the Altair Binary Format, the generic ASCII reader, running HyperWorks in batch mode, using Tcl/Tk commands, translators, and result math.
This section contains details on general HyperWorks Desktop scripting concepts, along with documentation on the Tcl commands that can be used to query and modify the database and GUI.
Documentation on the commands that control the Utility menu
View new features for HyperWorks Desktop 2019.
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Discover HyperWorks Desktop functionality with interactive tutorials.
Start HyperWorks Desktop and configure the applications.
Learn how to create, open, import and save models.
Control the view and display of your model in the modeling window.
Use the Session Browser to view the current session and all the pages and windows it contains in a hierarchical display.
Publish Session allows you to save the current session as an HTML file or a Microsoft PowerPoint file.
Use the Parameters Browser to parameterize the contents of a session file or report template and automate a variety of analysis processes with the Parameters Browser.
Automate common workflows using the Process Manager or Automate tool.
Explore, organize and manage your personal data, collaborate in teams, and connect to other data sources, such as corporate PLM systems to access CAD data or publish simulation data.
These provide an overview of all additions, updates, and changes to the HyperMesh APIs for each release.
Details on the core data that can be queried and manipulated.
This API allows external applications to link HyperMesh as a library and provides a limited set of functions and structures to access specific functionality.
FE input readers are C programs that read information from ASCII or binary finite element models files into the HyperMesh database.
Details on the HMASCII format and associated commands.
The Model Checker can be customized to add custom checks and corrections.
The functionality of the HyperMesh Tcl Modify commands are available through Tcl. Additionally, commands that allow you to extract information from the HyperWorks Desktop database, such as entity ID numbers on a mark, a list of assemblies, component names, elements per component, nodes per element, node values, and so forth. These are known as HyperMesh Tcl Query commands. They are used to query information from the database or template system.
Tcl/Tk scripts can be run in several ways.
Commands that operate on the HyperMesh GUI widgets.
Commands that modify the HyperMesh database.
Commands that query the HyperMesh database.
Starts the definition of a Utility menu macro.
Calls a macro from inside a macro.
Adds a button to the Utility menu.
Adds a button group to the Utility menu.
Allows you to interactively select a single entity from a command file.
Allows you to interactively select a list of entities from a command file.
Place the entities from the last operation onto the mark.
Allows you to interactively select entities from a command file.
Adds text to the Utility menu.
Ends the definition of a macro started with *beginmacro.
Specifies the HyperMesh panel to display on the menu.
Include the contents of the passed macro file.
Read in the next macro file from the history stack.
Read in the previous macro file from the history stack.
Push a filename onto the macro file history stack.
Sets the default selection for a Utility menu button group.
Sets the current displayed page number of the Utility menu.
Sets the color for the Utility menu button group's current selection indicator.
Solver templates are ASCII data files containing HyperMesh Template Language Commands and HyperMesh Template Language Functions.
The Script Exchange is a database of freely accessible scripts posted by users and Altair engineers.
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