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Collaboration Tools
Explore, organize and manage your personal data, collaborate in teams, and connect to other data sources, such as corporate PLM systems to access CAD data or publish simulation data.
Open the Explore Dialog
The Explore dialog provides enhanced capabilities for searching for and retrieving data, beyond what is provided from typical file browse dialogs.
OpenPDM Connector
An out-of-the-box OpenPDM Connector is available and can be used to connect to existing OpenPDM instances, if available, query for and retrieve CAD files, directly into HyperMesh.
Configure OpenPDM Connector

Welcome
What's New
View new features for Altair HyperWorks 2024.
Get Started
Learn the basics and discover the workspace.
Tutorials
Learn more about the Altair HyperWorks suite of products with interactive tutorials.
Startup Procedures and Customizations
Start and configure the applications.
Tool Finder
View a list of deprecated panels and their newer, equivalent workflows.
Manage Files and Data
Create, open, import, and save models.
Sessions and Report Templates
Set up sessions and create report templates.
Interface with External Products
Solver interfaces supported in HyperMesh.
Entities and Solver Interfaces
A solver interface is made up of a template and a FE-input reader.
Browsers
Browsers provide a structured view of model data, which you can use to review, modify, create, and manage the contents of a model. In addition to visualization, browsers offer features like search, filtering, and sorting, which enhance your ability to navigate and interact with the model data.
Sketching
Create and edit 2D parametric sketch geometry.
Topology
Create, edit, and cleanup geometry.
FE Geometry
FE geometry is topology on top of mesh, meaning CAD and mesh exist as a single entity. The purpose of FE geometry is to add vertices, edges, surfaces, and solids on FE models which have no CAD geometry.
Meshing and Elements
Explore the different types of mesh you can create in HyperMesh and create and edit 0D, 1D, 2D, and 3D elements.
Model Build and Assembly
Create, organize and manage parts and subsystems.
Composites
HyperMesh composites modeling.
Connectors
Create connections between parts of your model.
Morph
Rapidly change the shape of the FE mesh without severely sacrificing the mesh quality.
Skeleton Modeling
Create a reduced ordered model to facilitate optimization at the concept phase.
Design Space
Workflow to support topology optimization model build and setup.
Optimization
Setup an Optimization in HyperMesh.
Design Explorer
Multi-disciplinary design exploration and optimization tools.
Validate
Validate the model built before running solver analysis.
Analyze
Models require loads and boundary conditions in order to represent the various physics and/or physical equivalents to bench and in-use testing.
Axisymmetry
Reduce a full 3D model with axisymmetric surfaces while accounting for imperfections.
Concept Modeling
Tools and workflows that are dedicated to rapidly creating new parts for specific use cases, or amending existing parts. The current capabilities are focused on stiffening parts.
Crash and Safety
Tools used for crash and safety analysis.
Airbag
Use airbag folder utilities and export a resulting airbag in a Radioss deck.
Aerospace
Essential utility tools developed using HyperMesh-Tcl.
Aeroelasticity
Import an aeroelastic finite element model with Nastran Bulk Data format.
Certification
Framework to plug certification methods to assess margin of safety from the model and result information.
PhysicsAI
Use PhysicsAI to build fast predictive models from CAE data. PhysicsAI can be trained on data with any physics or remeshing and without design variables.
Results Data
Results data can be post-processed using both HyperMesh and HyperView.
Developer
The Developer ribbon contains tools for automation and customization.
Plot Data
HyperGraph is a data analysis and plotting tool with interfaces to many file formats.
Multibody Modeling
MotionView is a general pre-processor for Multibody Dynamics.
Media Files
MediaView plays video files, displays static images, tracks objects, and measures distances.
Tabulate Results
Use TableView to create an Excel-like spreadsheet.
Text Files
TextView math scripts reference vector data from HyperGraph windows to automate data processing and data summary.
Publishing and Reporting
Create, define, and export reports.
Collaboration Tools
Explore, organize and manage your personal data, collaborate in teams, and connect to other data sources, such as corporate PLM systems to access CAD data or publish simulation data.
- Terminology
  Common terminology used with the collaboration features is described in this section.
- Contents and Content Definition
  Content refers to any information stored in a library. Content Definitions encapsulate information about the types of information managed by the HyperMesh libraries.
- Open the Organize Browser
  Use the Organize browser to organize your data.
- Open the Explore Dialog
  The Explore dialog provides enhanced capabilities for searching for and retrieving data, beyond what is provided from typical file browse dialogs.
  - Select a Repository
  - Manage Repositories
    Additional repositories, also known as data stores, can be added so that information stored in other locations, such as material databases or corporate PLM systems, can be retrieved directly from within the HyperMesh environment.
  - Index a Folder
    Folders and files can be added to libraries.
  - Publish Contents From the Manage Button
    Use the Manage button to directly save or check in contents and files to libraries, without the need to save the file first and then publish it to a library separately.
  - Teamcenter Connector
    An out-of-the-box Teamcenter Connector is available and can be used to connect to existing Teamcenter instances, if available, query for and retrieve CAD files, directly into HyperMesh. It can also be used to publish simulation files back into Teamcenter.
  - Windchill Connector
    An out-of-the-box Windchill Connector is available. It can be used to connect to existing Windchill instances, if available, query for and retrieve CAD files directly into HyperMesh.
  - OpenPDM Connector
    An out-of-the-box OpenPDM Connector is available and can be used to connect to existing OpenPDM instances, if available, query for and retrieve CAD files, directly into HyperMesh.
    - Configure OpenPDM Connector
    - Configure openpdm_udm_config.xml
      The openpdm_udm_config.xml file is a configuration file responsible for mapping OpenPDM data types and attributes to HyperMesh data types and attributes.
    - Configure pdmsyscfg.xml
      A new xml node <OpenPDM/> was added to the existing pdmsyscfg.xml. The node includes query and file upload configurations.
    - Search OpenPDM-Simple Query
  - Search Total Materia
    An out-of-the-box Total Materia Connector is available and can be used to connect to existing Total Materia instances, if available, query for and retrieve material data directly into HyperMesh.
  - SDM Connector
    An out-of-the-box SDM Connector is available and can be used to connect to existing SDM instances, if available, to query for and retrieve files, directly into HyperMesh. Additionally, it can be used to publish simulation files back into SDM.
- Add Subscribed Parts
  Use the Subscribe dialog to register or subscribe to parts or items of interest that reside within a corporate PDM system. Once the parts have been subscribed to, the dialog helps to ensure that you are working with the latest information by allowing you to quickly check whether any subscribed to parts have been updated, and to seamlessly retrieve updated information and files for those that have.
- Add MotionView Models into the Library
  MotionView supports a limited version of interface with Collaboration Tools.
- Material Library
  Collaboration Tools comes with an out-of-the-box profile, which is tailored specifically for organizing and managing material information and data.
- Reference Guide

Configure OpenPDM Connector

The OpenPDM Connector requires a simple one-time configuration before it will be ready for use. Contact the OpenPDM team to configure OpenPDM with your PDM system.

Once OpenPDM is configured with your PDM system, configure openpdm_udm_config.xml.