*morphupdateparameter

The parameter of interest. Valid parameters are:

handlesize: the display size, in model units, of morphing handles

symsize: the display size, in model units, of morphing symmetries

morphconstraintsize: the display size, in model units or screen units, of morphing constraints

Real > 0.0 = value is size in model units
Real < 0.0 = absolute value is size in screen units

domainicons: show icons at the centroids of domains

0 – hide icons
1 – show icons

mvdraw: number of points along morph volume edges during drawing

mvgraph: style of graphics for morph volumes

0 – wireframe
1 – light tint
2 – opaque
3 – medium tint
4 – heavy tint

edgedomaincolor: color for edge domains

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

facedomaincolor: color for 2d domains

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

soliddomaincolor: color for 3d domains

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

domaincolor: color for 1d, global, and general domains

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

facecolor: color for shell elements created on 3d domains

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

mvcolor: color for morph volumes

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

symcolor: color for symmetries

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

symlinks: apply handle morphing to other handles linked by symmetry

0 - all off
1 - on (only active symmetries will be applied)

constraints: apply constraints after morphing

0 - all off
1 - on (only active morphconstraints will be applied)

midnodes: method for adjusting element midnodes during morphing

0 - No correction
1 - Force midpoint
2 - Hold current
3 - Curve edge domains
4 - Curve 2D domains

minstepdist: minimum step size (in model units) for interactive morphing

minstepangle: minimum step size (in degrees) for interactive morphing

handletolerance: no larger than 1/10th of handle size - used to calculate a number of small tolerance measures in HyperMorph

biasstyle: type of biasing used for handles

0 - exponential
1 - sinusoidal

influencethreshold: minimum influence of a handle over a node

Real number greater than zero and less than 1.0

qaparam: element quality check to be displayed after each morph – where noted (+/-) use negative values for minimum check, positive values for maximum check

0 – Off
1 - 1D length (+/-)
2 - 2D warpage
3 - 2D skew
4 - 2D aspect ratio
5 - 2D length (+/-)
6 - 2D jacobian
7 - 2D chordal deviation
8 - 2D quad angle (+/-)
9 - 2D tria angle (+/-)
10 - 3D warpage
11 - 3D aspect
12 - 3D tetra altitude aspect
13 - 3D skew
14 - 3D volumetric skew
15- 3D length (+/-)
16 - 3D jacobian
17 - 3D tetra collapse
18 - 3D quad angle (+/-)
19 - 3D tria angle (+/-)
23 - All elements time step
24 – 2D Equia skew
25 - 2D Squish
26 – 2D Taper
27 – 3D Squish
28 – 3D Equia Skew
29 – 3D Orthogonality
30 – 3D Size Ratio
99 – Quality Index

qavalue: the upper or lower failure limit for element quality

qaplot: type of plotting of failed elements during element quality check

0 - highlight failed elements
1 - used color assigned plot

qanegjac: scan morphed elements for negative Jacobians after each morph

0 - off
1 - on

smoothmeth: method used for automatic smoothing (use positive values to smooth after interactive morphing, negative value to smooth during interactive morphing)

0 - none
1 - autoselect
2 - size corrected
3 - shape corrected
4 - angle corrected
5 - QI optimized
6 - kriging (or autodecide for elements outside of local domains)
7 - kriging (or size corrected for elements outside of local domains)
8 - kriging (or shape corrected for elements outside of local domains)
9 - kriging (or angle corrected for elements outside of local domains)
10 - kriging (or QI optimized for elements outside of local domains)
11 - kriging (ignore elements outside of local domains)
12 – unsquish (fast)
13 – unsquish (even)
14 – unsquish (best)

smoothiter: number of iterations for smoothmeth (options 1 - 4 and 6 - 9 only)

remesh: when remeshing after morphing occurs

0 - off
1 - manual
2 - on release

rmlast: remesh interval – use “hm_getoption morph_remeshing_interval” to retrieve the current value for this option, if the value is:

Greater than -1: remesh all morphed elements since the last remesh
Less than -8: remesh only morphed elements for the most recent morph
to change from one mode to the other set to (current_value * -1.0) – 10.0

rmstyle: remesh or rebuild the morphed mesh

0 – Remesh
1 – Rebuild

remeshtype: elements used when auto-remeshing

0 - trias
1 - quads
2 - mixed
3 - right trias

rmcalc: how the remeshing target element size is set

0 – Average elements to be remeshed
1 – Use element size in the criteria file
2 – Set value manually

remeshtarg: target size of remeshed elements during auto-remeshing

rmedges: remesh edge domains during auto-remeshing

0 - do not remesh edge domains
1 - remesh edge domains

remeshfail: percentage of failed elements needed to trigger auto-remeshing

rmzone: how much of the morphed mesh to remesh

0 – all morphed elements
1 – only failed elements
2 – failed elements + 1 row
3 – failed elements + 2 rows
4 – failed elements + 3 rows

remeshsize: bias toward similar element size during remeshing

0 - off
1 - on

remeshskew: use skew control when auto-remeshing

0 - off
1 - on

remeshpres: preserve shapes when auto-remeshing

0 - off
1 - on

rmthreed: remesh 3D elements with pyras and tretras during auto-remeshing

0 - do not remesh 3D and 2D face domains
1 - remesh 3D and 2D face domains

mvon: morphing of entities inside of morph volumes

-1 – inactive and skin only
0 – inactive
1 – active
2 – active and skin only

mvmode: method for calculating morph volume edge curvature

0 - Lagrange
1 - spline

mvreparam: either maintain the initial continuity between linked edges or reset it

0 – maintain during morphing and during adjustment
1 – maintain during morphing but reset after adjustment
2 – reset during morphing but maintain after adjustment
3 – reset during morphing and after adjustment

mvtol: 0.0 - 1.0, mapping tolerance - accuracy increases as tolerance decreases

mvconnreg: which connectors get registered to morphvolumes during creation and after adjustment

0 – all
1 – displayed connectors
2 - none

mvconnreal: treatment of registered connectors during morphing

0 – maintain
1 – unrealize
2 – unrealize + rerealize

connectors: style of morphing for connectors (add 10 to use the large domain solver to smooth over distortions in the mesh around clusters during morphing)

0 – use domains/morph volumes
1 - solve all as clusters
2 - solve all as stretchable
3 - solve seam and area connectors as stretchable and others as clusters
4 – as 3 above but treat equations as clusters
5 – as 3 above but do not apply special treatment to equations

onedrot: rotation of clusters (1d domains and morphconstraints), connectors, and equations

0 - no rotation
1 - tilting only (out-of-plane)
2 - spinning only (in-plane)
3 - full rotation

globalsystemid: ID of system used for morphing (use 0 for the global system)

globalmethod: method for passing down perturbations of global handles to the mesh

1 - direct (to nodes)
2 - hierarchical (to local handles)
3 - mixed method (to local handles or nodes directly if outside local domains)

globalsolve: method for solving global domains

1 - geometric
2 - spatial
3 - kriging

onedmethod: method used to determine the relationship between 1D domains and their surrounding domains

1 - independent
2 - secondary
3 - main
4 - cluster

savemorphlist: save morph list with HM binary format file

0 – do not save morph list with file
1 – save morph list with file

morphlibarch: if the morphing library is used and what the preferred computation method is for it

0 – Do not use morphing library (large domain solver)
1 – Use morphing library but only with single CPU
2 – Use morphing library with multiple CPUs
3 – Use morphing library and use GPU if available

bigdomainsolve: when the large domain solver runs

0 - manual
1 - on release
2 - real time

morphlibunfold: whether the large domain solver runs when the mesh gets folded

0 – never unfold
1 – ask to unfold
2 – always unfold

bigdomainlimit: smallest number of elements in domain for it to be considered a "large domain"

fesolver: type of solver to use for small domains

0 - influence coefficients
1 – linear static (OptiStruct)
2 - non-linear explicit (Radioss)
3 - kriging

fesolve: when the small domain solver runs

0 - manual
1 - on release
2 - real time (interactive)

fesolverlimit: number of elements at or below which a domain is considered a small domain

feuser: properties used when running linear static or nonlinear explicit small domain solvers

0 - automatically generate properties and materials
1 - use properties and materials in the model

qaautofix: invoke the large domain solver to unfold small domains which become folded during morphing

0 – off
1 – autofix on release
2 – autofix in real time (interactive)

kriging: when the kriging solver runs

0 - off
1 - manual
3 - automatic

krigtype: kriging will be applied to the following entities:

0 - none
1 - global domains
2 - local domains
3 - local and global domains
4 - morph volumes
5 - morph volumes and global domains
6 - morph volumes and local domains
7 - morph volumes, local, and global domains

krigdrift: drift value for kriging

0 - none
1 - constant
2 - linear
3 - quadratic
4 - cubic
5 - trigonometric

krigcovar: covariance value for kriging

0 - h
1 - h^2 * log(h)
2 - h^3
3 - exp(-1/x)

krignugget: use nugget value

0 - off
1 - on

krignugval: value of nugget used for kriging

ires: when to display fea results after morphing

0 - off
1 - manual
2 - on release
3 - real time

irescon: plotting style for fea results

0 - contour plot
1 - assign plot

iresmin: set the scale minimum value for fea results plotting

0 - find minimum value
1 - use value given in iresminval

iresminval: value of scale minimum used when plotting fea results

iresmax: set the scale maximum value for fea results plotting

0 - find maximum value
1 - use value given in iresmaxval

iresmaxval: value of scale maximum used when plotting fea results

irescomp: results component for fea results plotting

0 - magnitude
1 - x component
2 - y component
3 - z component

iresmesh: color of mesh during fea results plotting

Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

iresmmres: minimum/maximum title plotting during fea results plotting

0 - do not plot minimum and maximum titles
1 - plot minimum and maximum titles

iresplinfo: info title plotting during fea results plotting

0 - do not plot info titles
1 - plot info titles

iressolver: solver used for fea results plotting

1 - linear static
2 - nonlinear explicit
3 - stamping 1-step
4 - stamping incremental

iresstmpx: x component of the stamping direction for the 1-step solver

iresstmpy: y component of the stamping direction for the 1-step solver

iresstmpz: z component of the stamping direction for the 1-step solver

partitionmethod: algorithm used for partitioning 2D domains which are at least 33%

0 - element based
1 - node based

partitionmethodtria: algorithm used for partitioning 2D domains which are at least 67% trias

0 - element based
1 - node based

domainangle: break angle, in degrees, for determining partition lines

partitionorder:

1 - divide when angle exceeds the domainangle
2 - divide when angle exceeds the domainangle and when the angle between elements changes more than the curvetolerance

curvetolerance: the tolerance value (in degrees) for curvature changes which determine partition lines

partitionusegeometry: partition along surface edges of associated geometry

0 - off
1 - on

partitionaddgeometry: merge partitioned domains and those created from geometry (where applicable)

0 - off
1 - on

internalpart: partition faces inside solid meshes

0 - off
1 - on

domcountforbig: if the number of 2D and 3D domains in the model exceeds this threshold, the large domain solver will be used for all of them instead of solving for influence coefficients, except for cases where the number of domains being morphed is 20 times less than this threshold

The new value of the parameter.

*morphupdateparameter

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