Fully Leverage Your Technology Investments with HyperWorks

A software philosophy built upon openness, programmability and automation

HyperWorks is more than just a collection of high-end applications: it's an integrated engineering framework for maximizing product performance, automating processes and improving profitability within an open and flexible environment. Built from the core up to be programmable, automated and interoperable with all major commercial CAD systems and CAE solvers, HyperWorks enables innovation by providing high-end, value-based product design solutions within one common engineering environment.

A complete framework for high-end finite-element and multi-body systems simulation

• Modelling and Assembly
• Robust Design and Optimization
• Design Analysis
• Visualization and Reporting
• Virtual Manufacturing
• Automation and Data Management

Modelling and assembly

As an industry leader for over a decade, Altair HyperWorks delivers the fastest and most versatile pre- and post-processing technologies for FE and MBD analysis. Recognized throughout the industry for speed and the broadest set of direct interfaces, HyperMesh and MotionView provide an intuitive, consistent engineering environment independent of CAD and CAE solver deployments.

HyperMesh delivers unparalleled power and performance by allowing engineers to quickly mesh and assemble complex FEA models. Controlled auto-meshing, weld and connector automation tools, quality-index meshing, mid-plane surface extraction and surface loading all enable rapid development of high fidelity models for detailed analysis.

MotionView, is a general purpose pre- and post-processor and visualization tool for mechanical system simulation including industry leading capabilities for flexbodies. MotionView pre-processing provides analysts with an intuitive interface for PC and Unix environments and an efficient, neutral multi-body dynamics language that can export to several solvers including MotionSolve, ADAMS, DADS, SIMPACK, ABAQUS and NASTRAN.

Competitive pressures continue to force product improvement demands on engineering and design departments. Being able to structurally optimize a component for a desired performance outcome in the pre-design phase can mean more time for product innovation and shorter time to market. The HyperWorks framework integrates the power of OptiStruct, the leading structural analysis and optimization tool with HyperStudy, a powerful new Robust Design assessment module that virtually validates a design simulation long before it goes to manufacturing.

Robust Design and Optimisation

Altair Optistruct is a design tool based on the finite element method that generates optimal concept design proposals from supplied packaging information. Product designers and engineers define a weight target and constraint criteria such as maximum allowable deflection andstress, modal response, member sizing and method of manufacture. Through optimization methods, OptiStruct then draws up a structurally optimal and manufacturable design proposal based on your specifications. The result is an engineered product concept, based on your specific criteria, for design development.

Following design definition, Altair HyperStudy can be used to gain insight into the physics of the design, assess the design’s robustness and fully optimize the design for multi-disciplinary attributes. Both design-of-experiments (DOE) and stochastic optimization studies can be quickly performed with HyperStudy to understand design sensitivities and optimize design parameters for controlled or uncontrolled variations. HyperStudy has readily available interfaces to major solvers such as LS-DYNA, ABAQUS, ANSYS, NASTRAN, MADYMO, PAMCRASH, OptiStruct, ADAMS, DADS, SIMPACK and MotionSolve.

Design Analysis

Altair HyperWorks provides two robust solver solutions within its engineering framework - OptiStruct®/Analysis for structural analysis and MotionSolve® for multi-body systems simulation.

OptiStruct/Analysis - Structural Analysis

• Linear-statics
• Normal Modes
• Frequency Response
• Inertia Relief
• Buckling

MotionSolve - Multi-Body Systems Simulation

• Statics
• Quasi-statics
• Dynamics
• Kinematics
• Eigenanalysis

In addition, HyperWorks' broad and comprehensive direct interfaces to third party CAE solver applications are best-in-class in the CAE market and further enhance the value proposition of HyperWorks. Its open-architecture design also allows HyperWorks to be seamlessly integrated within a company's proprietary solver environment.