Model Import Options
Entity management settings defined when importing models.
Entity management settings will be initiated if there is a match (and conflict)
between component IDs (PID), property IDs (SECID), and material IDs (MID) in the
current HyperMesh session and the incoming binary files.
If the component, property, or material IDs do not match, then no action will be
taken and entities will be imported as is.
Note: By default, component IDs will be
offset and merged to the relevant part. Selecting Keep Incoming
Attributes or Keep Existing Attributes
for component, property, and material entities and selecting Keep
Incoming Only for Geometry/FE is the most common action for this
use case.
- Components, Properties, and Materials
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- Offset ID
- Merge incoming attributes with conflicting IDs into the session, and offsets their IDs. This is the default option for components, properties, and materials for representation entity management.
- Keep Existing Attributes
- Maintain existing in-session entity attributes and incoming conflicting entity IDs.
- Keep Incoming Attributes
- Map incoming entity attributes to the in-session entities.
- Geometry/FE
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- Keep Both
- Keep both incoming and existing geometry and FE residing in the component with conflicting IDs.
- Keep Existing Only
- Keep existing geometry and FE that resides in the component with conflicting IDs.
- Keep Incoming Only
- Keep incoming geometry and FE that resides in the component with conflicting IDs. This is the default option for geometry and FE for representation entity management.
- Connectors
- When loading connectors along with a HyperMesh binary file, HyperMesh checks for
conflicting spot and bolt connectors.Note: IDs are not considered when checking for conflicting connectors.Define options used to find conflicting connectors by clicking
, to the right of the
Connector option.- Tolerance
- Tolerance used to find conflicting connectors. Connector coordinates need to be within a certain tolerance from each other.
- Link Check
- Compare used links by link type, link name, and ID (active by default).
- Thickness Check
- Compare the number of layers (active by default).
- Attribute Check
- Compare the diameter, configuration, solver, and postscripts (inactive by default).