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Skeleton Modeling
Create a reduced ordered model to facilitate optimization at the concept phase.
Connect Member Panels and Members
If a panel or member has been created or edited, it may be necessary to connect or reconnect it.

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.
- Skeleton Browser
  Use the Skeleton Browser to manage and run skeleton entities.
- Create Joint Hubs
  Use the Joint Box tool to define junctions in your skeleton model.
- Create and Edit Joint Legs
  Use the Joint Legs tool to add, delete, and move joint leg ends around the face of a bounding box.
- Reflect Skeleton Entities Using a Symmetry Plane
  Use the Symmetry tool to reflect and map joints and members using a plane.
- Create Members
  Use the Members tool to create members between two joints.
- Create Member Panels
  Use the Member Panels tool to connect three or more members.
- Connect Member Panels and Members
  If a panel or member has been created or edited, it may be necessary to connect or reconnect it.
- Absorb Members
  Use the Absorb tool to reverse engineer a skeleton model using lines or 1D elements as input.
- Find Equivalent Joints
  Use the Equivalence tool to consolidate overlapping joints within a given tolerance.
- Combine Members
  Use the Combine tool to merge continuous members.
- Delete Duplicate Members
  Use the Duplicates tool to erase members that share the same start and end joint.
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.

Connect Member Panels and Members

If a panel or member has been created or edited, it may be necessary to connect or reconnect it.

From the Skeleton ribbon, click the Connect tool.

Figure 1.
Select a connection option from the drop-down on the guide bar.
- Panel to Member
- Member to Member
- Panel to Panel
Select the members/panels to connect.
Click to define spring stiffness values.
These are applied to the PBUSH property, which is then subsequently associated to the CBUSH elements.
On the guide bar, click one of the following:
- - Apply and stay in the tool
- - Apply and close the tool
- - Exit the tool without applying