Aerospace Menu


An Aerospace Tools profile has been introduced in HyperView. To access the menu:

  1. From the File menu, select File > Load > Preference File. The Preference file is displayed.
  2. From the Preferences dialog, select Aerospace Tools and click Load. The Aerospace menu is displayed on the Menu bar.

Select one of the topics below to learn more about the menu options.

Result On Stack

The Result on Stack tool allows you to display layer based shell results along with the real stacking sequence of the selected element(s).
As the proper information of the stacking sequence of the element is in the FE deck, you have to load the model (deck) in a HyperMesh client in the same session, so that the tool can access the required information in the database.
Next, you have to contour the needed result in a contour plot and then you can run the application.

Two options are available: Quick Query and Append Multiple Results

Quick Query

With Quick Query, you can select one element only and will get a HyperGraph pop-up window showing the needed results.

Append Multiple Results

With the option Append Multiple Results, you can select multiple elements and the tool will append to the current session as many HyperGraph pages for as many selected entities.

Will display:

The Result On Stack tool support the following solver profiles:

  • OptiStruct (zone and ply based)
  • RADIOSS
  • Nastran
  • Ls-Dyna
  • Abaqus

Layer Book

With the Layer Book tool, you can:

  • Contour required results
  • Select which layers you want to extract information from.
  • Select the load cases available.
  • Select the export mean among:
    • New Word Document (for Windows system only)
    • Existing Word Document (for Windows system only)
    • Exporting Pictures (Windows and Linux)

Export to New Word

Select the combination from the graphical user interface and a new Word Document will be generated with a new chapter for each load case, each one having as many sub-chapters as the number of selected layers.

Export Using Existing Word

This approach is similar to the previous one, however you will be asked, after the selection, to point to an existing document or template. The organization of the chapters is the same as the previous use case, however the headings will be taken from the document set up.

Export Pictures

After selection of the configuration, you will use these functions to input a destination directory in which the tool will create a sub-folder for each load case. In each folder a .png file will be stored for each selected layer.

Result Configurator

The Result Configurator tool allows you to quickly create either a Word document or pictures by means of:

Entity Selection

Selecting available Components (Parts) and/or Element Set; with the sub-option Isolate Selected/Contour on Complete Model, the selected entities will contoured and isolated on the screen or contoured only on the whole model respectively.

Select Load Cases

Selecting one or multiple load cases (each load case is structured as unique entity from the combination of its subcase ID and its simulation ID).

Result Configurator

Two different options are available:

1. Set Up on Active Window

With this option you can insert his configuration of results for which you want to extract a picture using the Add Rows button.

Once a row is added the result configuration can be set up picking from the following available options:

  • Data Type
  • Data Component (if available in the selected Data)
  • Layer (if the selected result is layer based)
  • System
  • Corner Data (on/off)
  • Averaging (method)
  • Legend File (if to be used or not)
  • File Path (to Legend File: *.tcl)

You can also:

  • Remove Rows
  • Duplicate selected rows
  • Save the config (in the form of a CSV file)
  • Load the result config (from a CSV file)
  • Clear the current window contour in HyperView (if required)

2. Select from Session

With this option you will get for each page and window in the current session where HyperView is loaded, the result configuration of each HyperView client. This configuration cannot be changed, however the result to be exported can be selected by checking the box at the very left of the tree widget.

It is important to point out that the components and set listed in the Entity Selection box are referring to the model in the first available HyperView client. The process is therefore tailored to have a session (or report template) pointing to HyperView clients featuring (at least) the same model (structure).

Export Options

Export to New Word: This option will generate a new chapter for each selected results. Each chapter will have a sub-chapter for each selected load case which then will have again a dedicated sub-chapter for each selected parts.

Export Using Existing Word: This approach is similar to the previous one, however you will be asked, after the selection, to point to an existing document or template. The organization of the chapters is the same as the previous use case, however the headings will be taken from the document set up.

Export Pictures: After selection of the configuration, you will use these functions to input a destination directory in which the tool will create a subfolder for result, then a sub folder for each load case, and then a picture for each selected part/set.