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Introduction to HyperView
In this chapter
Introduction to the HyperView interface
Loading INP and ODB files into HyperView
Use of the mouse
Use of the view options and controls
Menu Bar
Graphics
Display
Area
Page and
Window Mode Tool Bar Window View
Selector Controls Controls
Panel
Menu Area Status Bar
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:
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
1. Move the cursor into the graphics area of the HyperView window.
2. Press the CTRL+ middle mouse button, circle an area of the model to
zoom in on.
3. Move the cursor into the graphics area of the HyperView window.
4. Use a quick click while pressing the CTRL+ middle mouse button. This
acts as an auto fit.
6. Press the CTRL+ right Mouse Button and slide the mouse in the
direction you wish to translate the model on the window.
Hide or display the View controls panel by clicking the aqua bar to the right of
the View controls.
The magnifying glass and Fit buttons allow you to zoom in or out on the model.
The positive magnifying glass zooms in to the model to get a closer look. To
zoom out, use the negative magnifying glass icon .
Remember that the zoom factor is set using Tools / Options / View from the
menu bar.
The Fit button under the magnifying glass will fill the model to the screen area.
The Fit All Frames button considers the displacement of the model throughout
the animation and scales the view such that the entire displacement can be seen.
This is useful for viewing animations with very large deformations, such as a drop
test or kinematics model.
The view memories provide a means to store a particular view and recall it at a
later time in the session.
6. Click All.
8. Click None to clear the component selection. The cradle and bracket is
displayed.
Post-processing bracket
assembly analysis
The panel is divided into four sections: Result type, Resolved in, Display
options, and Result display control. This overview focuses on ABAQUS ODB
files with all but the Resolved-in sections.
The ODB file from the bracket and beam assembly analysis in Chapter One
contains displacement results and stress results at integration points and nodes.
Here is the list of result types in HyperView for this ODB file:
Displacement (v)
where
(t) Tensor type result. Refer to the section in Appendix A titled “Local
and Global Tensor Results” for additional information.
(s) Scalar results. Refer to the section in Appendix A titled “Local and
Global Tensor Results” for additional information.
Here is the list of component and invariant types for stress results at nodes (S-
Stress components (s)) from the ODB file for the Chapter One bracket and
beam analysis:
Mises, Tresca, Press, Inv3, Max Principal, Mid Principal, Min Principal, S11, S22,
S33, S12, S13, S23
Max Maximum result value among all layers, i.e. maximum tensile
stress or minimum compressive stress
Extreme Maximum of the absolute results for all layers, i.e. maximum
absolute tensile stress or maximum absolute compressive
stress. Results plot (i.e. contour, iso-value plot) shows actual
values.
Min Minimum result value among all layers, i.e. minimum tensile
stress or maximum compressive stress
Average color For element results, this option averages colors to the node
and yields a blended effect. Averaging colors produces
smoothly blended contour plots with no distinct boundaries
between contour levels. Refer to the section in Appendix A
titled “Averaging at nodes” for additional information.
Discrete color Produces discrete color bands on contour plots with distinct
boundaries between contour levels. This option uses a
texture mapping capability in your graphics card. If your
graphics card does not support texture mapping, the
performance may slow down.
Clear Contour Clears contour and returns model to its original state.
2. Click the switch under Result type: and select S-Stress components (s).
3. Click the switch next to the 2D checkbox and select Max Principal.
4. Click the second switch to the right of the 2D checkbox and select Extreme.
The contour plot is created. While HyperView can display element results with
respect to their default directions, it cannot display the default directions.
The menu table is populated with the node values for the selected elements.
3. In the Values section of the Edit Legend window, click the value 23.035, type
30 and then press ENTER.
This increases the resolution of the legend at the upper end of the scale,
assigning smaller increments to each color band between 30 and 35.065.
4. Left click on the yellow color block between the values 30 and 31.688. This
brings up the color pallet that allows you to change the color.
6. Click the red color block at the top of the scale and assign white.
8. Note the message “Select the first color to interpolate” in the lower left of the
Edit Legend window. Click the white color band in the Values section.
9. The message changes to “Select second color to interpolate”. Pick the red
color band. The top three color bands now show a smooth gradient from red
to white.
10. Click OK to apply the changes to the contour plot legend and close the Edit
Legend window.