In this chapter
1.? Introduction to the HyperView interface
2.? Loading INP and ODB files into HyperView
? Use of the mouse
? Use of the view options and controls
The HyperView Screen Display
Figure 1-1 shows the initial screen display when HyperView starts. The screen display is divided into the following areas: the Menu Bar contains windows style drop down menus that allow you to access all of the different functions and panels in HyperView; the Graphics Display Area is where models, plots, and animations display; on the left side of the Tool Bar is the Window Mode Selector where you can select one of four window types; the remaining controls access the various tools available for the selected client; the Panel Menu Area is where the options for the various tools of each client display; the View Controls contains tools to control the orientation of the display; the Page and Window Controls allow you to control the page and window layout and Status Bar indicates the current simulation subcase and step, along with model statistics.
The following sections discuss each of these areas.
Figure 1-1: HyperView screen display
HyperView includes four Window Modes. Select the window mode you wish to use from the list in the Window Mode selector. The window modes correspond to the different types of engineering data from many different sources. These are the four window types with a description of the files each type can process:
Animation: Displays CAE model and analysis results information from supported CAE solvers for finite element, kinematic, and multibody analysis. Additional solver formats are supported via translators that convert solver results to Altair's compact H3D binary format.
XY Plotting: A powerful data analysis tool that interfaces with many popular file formats. The sophisticated math engine is capable of processing complex mathematical expressions with large data sets. Altair's Templex text and numeric processor allows the introduction of advanced annotations and notes.
Video: Displays and synchronizes digital video data to CAE and XY Plot information. AVI, BMP, TIFF and JPEG file formats are supported.
Text: Allows text files to be viewed and edited directly in the HyperView environment. Altair's Templex language can be used to embed mathematical functionality.
A HyperView session can comprise multiple pages. Each page can hold one or more windows with each window holding one type of datum. Multi-window sessions may have all four clients represented.
The HyperView Menu
The menu bar across the top of the HyperView screen display consists of PC-style drop down menus. The top-level menu choices vary, according to the active window type.
To see the choices for each window type, click in the different windows on the page. When a window is active, it will be highlighted with a blue border, and the menu bar choices for that window type will be displayed.
Some menus are common to all window types (File, Edit View, Page, Study and Help).
File Perform file operations pertaining to the HyperView session. Open and save session files, set preferences, export curve and animation data, print functions, etc.
F
Session files are used to save the entire HyperView session – all pages and window layouts. Load the data files for the individual windows using the tool bar file functions.
Edit Cut and paste operations for windows and pages.
View Options affecting the overall layout of the HyperView session. Turn on or off common components, like the status bar at the bottom of the screen display, full screen mode, session browser, large icon mode, animation mini bar, or expand an active window to fill the graphics area.
Page Page functions control the window layout, cycle through the pages, title display and animation controls. The page functions are duplicated on the right side of the tool bar.
Study The Study menu is used to launch the Altair Study Wizard, a tool for parametric and optimization studies based on Design of Experiments (DOE)
Help Launch the online help and review message logs.
Window specific function menus are typically duplicated on the left side of the Tool bar. The following briefly describes the function menus for each of the window types.
Animation window function menus
Graphics All of the panels and functions for the animation client can be accessed here as well as on the left side of the tool bar. In addition, the current model properties can be used to review statistical and general model information.
Tools Start Custom Wizards, generate report templates, create custom Templex functions and control animation client options.
Plotting window function menus
Plot Options affecting the appearance of the plotting client window, such as headers and footers, background colors, legends and notes.
Curve Options affecting the individual data curves, such as curve attributes, scales, etc.
Tools Statistical and reporting functions for the curve data.
Video and Text Editor windows
The Video and Text Editor windows each have a single function menu.
Video Control the appearance of the video window with headers and footers, create notes and measures, or activate the filmstrip display mode.
Text Editor Search text, control text attributes or edit text.
Overview of INP and ODB files in HyperView
For HyperView 6.0, the Plot client does not support plotting history data from ABAQUS ODB files.
In the Animation client, either the ABAQUS INP or ODB file can be loaded for model data. The ODB file needs to be ABAQUS version 6.3. For direct ODB file loading, the ABAQUS 6.3 ODB API from Altair’s distribution CD needs to be installed. The Altair tool AbaqusODB UpGrade updates ODB files created in ABAQUS 6.2 (or earlier) to version 6.3.
When the INP file is read for model data, elements are organized into HyperView components based on section properties defined in the INP file. HyperView displays all components similar to HyperMesh. Also, for INP files from HyperMesh, component ids and colors are preserved in HyperView. In most cases, where a corresponding INP file is available, using it over the ODB file for model data is better.
While the ODB file has ELSETs, where each element can belong to multiple ELSETs, it does not have section property information. As a result, when the ODB file is read for model data, elements are organized into HyperView components based on ELSETs, where each element can belong to only one component. This can cause ‘holes’ in components.
Exercise 1: Load INP and ODB files
Load the ABAQUS INP and ODB file from the beam and bracket assembly analysis in Chapter 1 for model and results data.
1. Select Load model from the Client Tool Bar.
2. Click the Load model file browser button and select the file Bracket_Complete.inp in the Bracket_Run1 folder.
3. Click the Load results file browser button and select the file Bracket_Complete.odb in the Bracket_Run1 folder.
4. Click Apply.
Exercise 2: Using the mouse buttons
To rotate the model
1. Move the cursor into the graphics area of the HyperView window.
2. Press and hold the CTRL+ left mouse button. Moving the mouse will now rotate the model as if you are “grabbing” the model and dragging it with the mouse.
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