Tools Menu
The Tools menu has the following functions:
- Quick Access
- Quickly find and open the tools, panels and browsers that are available from the menu bar pull-downs or from the Utility Browser.
- Matrix Browser
- Explore HyperMesh and HyperView data entities and export the entities to external files for further analysis.
- Orientation Review
- Display/review and modify frequently used coordinate systems used in CAE analysis.
- Transformation Tool
- Translate, scale, reflect or rotate elements with multiple numbers of copies including properties and loads attached to them.
- Mapping CFD Loads
- Reads a Tecplot Results file and creates Nodal results file for use with the Linear Interpolation option.
- Linear interpolation - Pressure/Temperature
- The result file generated by the Mapping CFD loads function can be used in these panels to interpolate the result data on a mesh and define pressure or temperature loads for a FE analysis.
- Contour Loads
- Generates a contour plot of a load collector (for example mapped pressure or temperature values). Using Pressure - Signed in the Contour panel as data type maintains the sign of the pressure values, for example in case the values are given relative to a reference pressure.
- Write Centroids Offset
- Saves a text file containing lines with X Y Z values corresponding to the selected elements’ centroid coordinates offset by the specified Centroid’s offset value in the direction of the elements’ normals. Only 2D elements (trias/quads) are processed. This text file is typically used by CFD solvers to save simulation values at the X Y Z locations listed in each line.
- Pyramids
- Create pyramids on the outer quad faces of components/collectors containing 3D/volume elements, or on 2D quad elements in which case pyramids are created on the side of the quads’ normals.
- Centerline
- Extract a centerline of a tube-style geometry model.