After a contour plot has been applied in the Contour panel, the Cache feature will become active and allow you to add
the currently active contour result to an internal cache.
The averaging options allow you to limit the averaging of results to only a group of elements that are considered to be
bound by same feature angle or face.
The Free Body Diagram (FBD) tool facilitates the extraction and post-processing of Grid Point Force (GPFORCE) results
and can be used create and edit Free Body Diagrams (FBD).
Stress linearization, a widely used procedure in the Oil and Gas and ship-building industries, is used to analyze stresses
in a structure, such as a pressure vessel.
A result manipulation library that enables user-defined data types to be added to a result, and transitions complex data
manipulation tasks from HyperView to a reusable, modifiable set of libraries that focus solely on result processing tasks.
The fatigue manager allows you to write stress and strain results from a finite element analysis to an external file that
can be used to set up a fatigue analysis.
The fatigue configuration file is a user-defined external ASCII-file through which the data groups from results of static/modal/transient analysis of different solvers can be read.
HyperView supports 1D (or line) element results. Each 1D element has two corners
and a base (centroid) location for elemental results. HyperView supports
contour colors for the base (centroid) location only. This means an element will have only one
color when the Use corner data option in the Contour panel is not selected. When the Use
corner data option is selected, the element contour color becomes gray. However, you can still
use the Query panel to query corner results.
For HyperMesh
Users
If you are familiar with HyperMesh, you know that it
contains a contour panel as well. The Contour panel in HyperView processes
result values differently and more accurately than the HyperMesh
Contour panel. In the HyperMesh contour panel, the elemental
results are averaged to nodes and the averaged values are used for the colors and legend
display. By doing this, the Max/Min result values are averaged, thus lowering the Max values
in the legend. This may cause some confusion for HyperMesh users
when they use the Contour panel in HyperView. To match a HyperMesh contour plot in HyperView, verify that the
Use corner data option is deactivated, select the Simple averaging method without variation,
and use Analysis System for Resolved in. This is done because in HyperMesh, the results are always treated as scalars, so transformation
to other systems cannot be applied. When the Analysis System option is used, the original
values are extracted directly from the result file for averaging. Considering the extended
support of transformation and averaging methods in HyperView, we recommend
using HyperView for an accurate post-processing of results.