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Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
Named Entities
Entities which are given a name but are not collected or organized into containers.
Retractors
Retractor entities define retractors.

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HyperWorks: User's Guide

What's New
View new features for HyperWorks X.
Get Started
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Tutorials
Discover HyperWorks X functionality with interactive tutorials.
File Management
Learn how to create, open, import and save models.
Interface with External Products
Solver interfaces supported in HyperMesh.
Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
- Collectors and Collected Entities
  Collectors are named organizational containers for collected entities. Collected entities are nameless entities which must reside within one, and only one, collector. Collected entities are mutually exclusive to a collector.
- Named Entities
  Entities which are given a name but are not collected or organized into containers.
  - Accelerometers
    Accelerometer entities measure acceleration in the simulation.
  - Ale Fsi Projection
    Ale Fsi Projection entities provide a coupling method for simulating the interaction between a Lagrangian material set (structure) and ALE material set (fluid).
  - Ale Reference System Curve
    Ale Reference System Curve entities defines a motion and/or a deformation prescribed for a geometric entity, where a geometric entity may be any part, part set, node set, or segment set.
  - Ale Reference System Group
    Ale Reference System Group entities used to associate a geometric entity to a reference system type.
  - Ale Reference System Node
    Ale Reference System Node entities defines a group of nodes that control the motion of an ALE mesh.
  - Ale Reference System Switch
    Ale Reference System Switch entities allows for the time-dependent switches between different types of reference systems, that is, switching to multiple PRTYPEs at different times during the simulation.
  - Ale Smoothing
    Ale Smoothing entities constraint keeps an ALE slave node at its initial parametric location along a line between two other ALE nodes.
  - Ale Tank Test
    Ale Tank Test keyword provides curve through an engineering approximation when control volume airbags only require two engineering curves to define gas inflator and those two curves can be experimentally measured but the ALE inflator needs one additional state variable - the inlet gas velocity which is impractical to obtain.
  - Blocks
    Block entities are enclosed volumes represented by a "box" or block.
  - Bodies
    Body entities define a kinematic assembly made of FE parts or nodes.
  - Boxes
    Box entities are enclosed volumes, which are represented by a box.
  - Constrained Extra Nodes
    Constrained extra node entities define and store the keywords *CONSTRAINED_EXTRA_NODES_NODE and *CONSTRAINED_EXTRA _NODES_SET.
  - Constraints
    Constraint entities define kinematical constraints on a body at a specified node or point location.
  - Contact Surfaces
    Contact surface entities define and store contact definitions typically used in contact analysis.
  - Control Volumes
    Control volume entities define and store control volumes typically used in safety analysis.
  - Cross Sections
    Cross section entities store cross section definitions used in a crash analysis.
  - Curves
    Curve entities define and store xy data and are associated with a plot entity.
  - Dummy
    Dummy entities are defined by bodies representing the different kinematic assemblies of the dummy.
  - Element Clusters
    Element clusters are used to describe an assembly of elements for post-processing and failure control.
  - Failures
    Failures describe material failure criteria to be coupled to material models.
  - Features
    Feature entities track and manage certain geometric features.
  - Fields
    Field entities store spatially varying values, which can later be realized (mapped) to the element and node data of a new target mesh.
  - Groups
    Group entities define and store interfaces and rigid walls typically used in contact analysis.
  - Hourglass
    Hourglass entities define hourglass and bulk viscosity properties which are referenced via HGID in the *PART command.
  - Interface Component
    Interface Component entities create an interface in interface file for use in subsequent linking calculations.
  - Interface Linking
    Interface Linking Discrete keyword link node(s) to an interface in an existing interface file.
  - Joints
    Joint entities define the kinematic relationship between two bodies (for Ball, Cylinder, Revolute, Slider joints) or three bodies (for DoubleSlider joints).
  - Laminates
    Laminate entities define laminates, which make up a laminated structure by defining the stacking sequence of ply entities that make up the laminated structure.
  - Load Steps
    Load step entities define and store load cases for a given analysis.
  - Materials
    Material entities define and store material definitions for a model.
  - Mechanisms
    Mechanism entities are the root of the hierarchy in the Mechanism Browser.
  - Output Blocks
    Output block entities define and store solver output requests.
  - Parameters
    Parameter entities parameterize FE entity and geometric entity attributes.
  - Plies
    Ply entities define a FEA ply which is the FEA correlation to a physical ply.
  - Plots
    Plot entities associate and organize curve entities within a xy plot window.
  - Positions
    Position entities allow you to apply a Transformation sequence on set of nodes or SolverSubmodels.
  - Pretensioner
    Pretensioner entities define pretensioners.
  - Properties
    Property entities define and store 1D, 2D, and 3D property definitions for a model.
  - Regions
    Region entities store information used to facilitate and automate modeling practices and processes. It enables a selection which can be common across design changes or other models, provided region data is the same.
  - Retractors
    Retractor entities define retractors.
  - Rigid Walls
    Rigid wall entities provide a method for treating a contact between a rigid surface and nodal points of a deformable body. In the LS-DYNA and Radioss user profiles, rigid walls can be created in the Model and Solver browsers.
  - Sensors
    Sensor entities define and store sensors typically used in safety analysis.
  - Sets
    Set entities define and store lists of entity IDs for entities, sets of sets, or lists of set IDs.
  - Slip Rings
    Slip ring entities define sliprings.
  - Solver Masses
    Solver masses are used to model lumped mass finite element mesh.
  - Tables
    Table entities collect data points.
  - Tags
    Tag entities tag a piece of information, called the body, onto a node, element, line, surface, point, or solid within the model.
  - Terminations
    Termination entities provides an alternative way to stop the calculation before the termination time is reached.
  - Titles
    Title entities attach a title box with text to the modeling window, or to a node, element, load, or system.
  - Transformations
    Transformation entities define solver transformations, and are used to define a transformation sequence in a Position entity, to be applied on a set of nodes or on a SolverSubmodel.
- Morphing Entities
  Entities used for morphing the shape of FE model.
- Optimization Entities
  Entities used to set up optimization problems.
- Control Cards
  Control card entities create solver control cards such as results file I/O options, CPU and memory limits, and others.
- Undefined Entities
  Undefined entities are entities that will not be written to the solver deck.
- Solver Encryption Entities
  The encryption of solver entities is used to translate entity data into an undisclosed language.
- Element Property and Material Assignement Rules
  Element property and material assignment rules are based on the current user profile (solver interface).
- Supported Cards
  Supported cards organized by solver.
CAD Interfaces
Support provided by the CAD readers and writers.
Model Verification
Perform automatic checks on CAD models, and identify potential issues with geometry that may slow down the meshing process using the Verification and Comparison tools.
Geometry
Create and edit geometry.
Meshing
Learn about the different types of mesh you can create in HyperWorks X.
Elements
Create and edit 0D/1D entities and edit 2D elements.

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HyperWorks: User's Guide

Home
Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
Named Entities
Entities which are given a name but are not collected or organized into containers.
Retractors
Retractor entities define retractors.

What's New
Get Started
Tutorials
File Management
Interface with External Products
Entities and Solver Interfaces
CAD Interfaces
Model Verification
Geometry
Meshing
Elements

Retractors

Retractor entities define retractors.

LS-DYNA Cards

Card	Description
*ELEMENT_SEATBELT_RETRACTOR	Defines retractors.

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