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What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2025.1.
- 2025.1 Release Notes
- 2025 Release Notes
Get Started
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Tutorials
Learn more about the Altair HyperWorks suite of products with interactive tutorials.
Startup Procedures and Customizations
Start and configure the applications.
Tool Finder
View a list of deprecated panels and their newer, equivalent workflows.
Manage Files and Data
Create, open, import, and save models.
Sessions and Report Templates
Set up sessions and create report templates.
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.
Browsers
Browsers provide a structured view of model data, which you can use to review, modify, create, and manage the contents of a model. In addition to visualization, browsers offer features like search, filtering, and sorting, which enhance your ability to navigate and interact with the model data.
Sketching
Create and edit 2D parametric sketch geometry.
Topology
Create, edit, and cleanup geometry.
FE Geometry
FE geometry is topology on top of mesh, meaning CAD and mesh exist as a single entity. The purpose of FE geometry is to add vertices, edges, surfaces, and solids on FE models which have no CAD geometry.
Meshing and Elements
Explore the different types of mesh you can create in HyperMesh and create and edit 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements.
Model Build and Assembly
Create, organize and manage parts and subsystems.
Composites
HyperMesh composites modeling.
Connectors
Create connections between parts of your model.
Morph
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
Skeleton Modeling
Create a reduced ordered model to facilitate optimization at the concept phase.
Design Space
Workflow to support topology optimization model build and setup.
Optimization
Setup an Optimization in HyperMesh.
Design Explorer
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
Validate
Validate the model built before running solver analysis.
Analyze
Models require loads and boundary conditions in order to represent the various physics and/or physical equivalents to bench and in-use testing.
Axisymmetry
Reduce a full 3D model with axisymmetric surfaces while accounting for imperfections.
Concept Modeling
Tools and workflows that are dedicated to rapidly creating new parts for specific use cases, or amending existing parts. The current capabilities are focused on stiffening parts.
Crash and Safety
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
Airbag
Use airbag folder utilities and export a resulting airbag in a Radioss deck.
Aerospace
Essential utility tools developed using HyperMesh-Tcl.
Aeroelasticity
Import an aeroelastic finite element model with Nastran Bulk Data format.
Certification
Framework to plug certification methods to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
PhysicsAI
Use PhysicsAI to build fast predictive models from CAE data. PhysicsAI can be trained on data with any physics or remeshing and without design variables.
Results Data in HyperMesh and HyperView
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
Developer
The Developer ribbon contains tools for automation and customization.
Plot Data in HyperMesh and HyperGraph
Plot data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperGraph.
Multibody Modeling in MotionView
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
Media Files in MediaView
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
Tabulate Results in TableView
Use TableView to create an Excel-like spreadsheet.
Text Files in TextView
TextView math scripts reference vector data from HyperGraph windows to automate data processing and data summary.
Publishing and Reporting
Create, define, and export reports.

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Abaqus Interface

New Features

Coupling Kinematics and Coupling Distributings Tools: The Coupling Kinematics and Coupling Distributings tools have been added to the Model ribbon. Use these new tools to create a *COUPLING keyword with *KINEMATIC and *DISTRIBUTING keywords for a constraints entity.
Auto Contact Tool Update: A new feature has been added to the Auto Contact tool to extend the main surface by a layer or two. This ensures the main surface is always larger than the secondary surface.
New Result File Reader Support: New result file reader support has been added for Abaqus version 2025.

Enhancements

The *PLASTIC keyword allows the RATE parameter to define multiple rate dependent plastic strain tables.
The *BEAM SECTION keyword in property is enhanced to allow an offset via the *BEAM SECTION OFFSET keyword.
The *MASS keyword in property is updated to not accept the material attribute.
The TABLE entity can now be created from the Model Browser for the *DISTRIBUTION and *DISTRIBUTION TABLE keywords. Previously, it was a populated entity through the Material Orientation tool.
The *BOUNDARY keyword now accepts the SUBMODEL parameter. If present in the input file, the SUBMODEL parameter is realized as an unsupported card.
Review has been enhanced for MASS elements to show mass value. Review has also been enhanced for KINEMATIC COUPLING to show degrees of freedom (DOF).
Performance of a set segment for show/hide/isolate has been enhanced.

Deprecated Features

Result file reader support for Abaqus version 2020 has been removed. Those who use Abaqus 2020 should use the ODB Upgrade tool to upgrade the result file to supported versions.

Resolved Issues

*BEAM SECTION OFFSET now shows the correct offset graphically on the *BEAM GENERAL SECTION property.
Beam element B31 no longer has a template issue with input files not being written properly.
A crash issue upon deleting components and exporting a solver input file has been resolved.
Review of a group entity no longer causes a segmentation error.
The result file reader no longer has an issue reading CPRESS output for grouped contacts.
A regression on solver conversion from Abaqus to Radioss for material data with plastic rate has been resolved.