HyperMesh Model Import Options
Entity management settings defined when importing .hm models.
- Components, Properties, Materials, and Connectors
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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, materials, and connectors 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.
- Connector Advanced Options
- When loading connectors along with a HyperMesh binary file, HyperWorks checks for conflicting spot
and bolt connectors. Define options used to find conflicting connectors
by expanding Connector Advanced Options
option.
- Tolerance Check/Tolerance
- Tolerance used to find conflicting connectors. Connector coordinates need to be within a certain tolerance from each other.
- ID
- Compare used links by ID (inactive by default).
- Type
- Compare used links by link type (active by default).
- Links
- Compare used links by link name (active by default).
- Layers
- Compare the number of layers (active by default).
- Config name
- Merge Connector Groups
- Merge Part Assemblies/Parts