Shapes

When you morph your model, HyperWorks X stores the morph internally as a collection of perturbations which you can then undo or redo. When you create a shape using the Shapes tool, the node perturbations are stored in the new shape entity along with biasing factors for the perturbations and details such as the biasing style. HyperWorks X takes the difference between the initial state of the model and the current state of the model when creating a new shape. Creating shapes allows you to generate shape variables for optimization and store model changes for parametric studies.

When you create a shape, vectors are drawn for each node perturbation for the shape. The vectors are drawn the exact length of the perturbation.

Once a shape is saved, you can apply it to your model with any given scaling factor. Applying a shape in this way is like any other morphing operation and can be undone, redone, or saved as part of another shape.