HyperMesh Model Import Options
Entity management settings defined when importing .hm 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 HyperWorks 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, material, and connector entities and selecting
Keep Incoming Only for Geometry/FE is the most common
action for this use case.
- 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