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TRANSITION TO NEW USER EXPERIENCE

HYPERWORKS INTRODUCTION TO NEW INTERFACE

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Tips & Tricks - How to Change Start-in Directory?

On Windows, the default Start-in Directory

for HyperWorks is the My Documents directory.
• This can be changed either directly from the Startup dialog
or by editing the "Start in" field on the application executable
or its shortcut.

On Linux, the Start-in Directory is defined by the

directory from which you run the application startup
script.

Note: If you change the Start-in Directory in the

application Properties, it will override the last saved
path in the Startup dialog.

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Page and Windows - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Pages and Windows are created and stored in Pages and Windows are created and stored in
a hierarchical list in the Session Browser. a hierarchical list in the Session Browser.

Page Edit toolbar Page Navigation

tools in the
upper-right corner.

Page Navigation tools

in the upper-right corner.

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Tips & Tricks - How to Exit from a Tool

• Guide bar:

• Save changes and close the current context

• Exit the current context without saving changes

• Press

• and mouse through or click

• and select Exit tool from the context menu

• on the tool icon

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Tips & Tricks - Dock and Undock Parts of the User Interface

• Certain parts of the user interface, such as

browsers, toolbars, can be undocked and
repositioned as needed.
• dotted rows to reposition parts of the User Interface
(such as browsers, toolbars...)

• For parts docked on the left and right side of the

application, the dotted arrows appear at the top, next to
the name.

• For parts docked at the bottom of the application, the

dotted rows appear on the far-left side.

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HyperWorks Keyboard - HyperMesh Client

Key Command Mapping

Fn Key Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG Fn Key Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG

Display Online Help Display Online Help Align Nodes Align/Project > Lines

Delete Entities N/A Nodes Create Points/Nodes

Replace Edit Elements > Replace Line Edit N/A

Distance Measure Check Elements Check Elements

Mask N/A Quick Edit N/A

Edit Element Edit Elements > Create Automesh General 2D Mesh > Create

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Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Controls

Action Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Rotation Ctrl + Left click (hold) or

Center of rotation Ctrl + Left click

Zoom (Global) Ctrl + Scroll

Zoom (Local) Ctrl + Middle (draw)

Hints: For detailed shortcut
keys click on the link:
Fit Ctrl + Middle click
Keyboard Shortcuts and
Pan Ctrl + Right click Mouse - PDF

Window selection Shift + Draw Window

Remove from selection Select again

Append selection Left click with active selector

Context Menu None

Edit None
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Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Controls

Only HyperWorks NG
Action HyperWorks NG
Show selection

Show entities adjacent to selection (idle mode only)

Hide selection
Hints: For detailed shortcut
Isolate selection and turn off all other entity types
keys click on the link:
Reverse display of selection Keyboard Shortcuts and
Mouse - PDF
Fit (and fit selected)

Go back to previous view

Enter and exit the Show/Hide tool

Switch the display from mesh only, geometry only, or both (Idle mode only)

Toggle On/Off IDs of a selection (Idle mode only)

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Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Controls

Only HyperWorks NG
Action HyperWorks NG
Isolate selection and retain all other entity types (Show/Hide tool only)
Show entire model
Select Displayed
Select Adjacent Hints: For detailed shortcut
keys click on the link:
Select Attached
Keyboard Shortcuts and
Reverse selection Mouse - PDF

Select Similar (base on type and config if applicable)

Hide and clear selection

Show/Clear Elements IDs

Copy/Paste /

Save Views + Number key

Select All +
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View Controls - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Visualization toolbar View Controls toolbar

Element and Handle Visualization

Element Handle

Vector Handle Geometry and Mesh Visualization

Fixed Points

Face Color

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View Controls - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Visualization toolbar > Transparency View Controls toolbar > Geometry and Mesh
Visualization ( )

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View Controls - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Standard View toolbar View Controls toolbar > Model Orientation

View Control to rotate the model View Cube to rotate the model
• Hover the mouse on global axis cube to get the button
to rotate

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Save Views - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
View control to save views View Controls toolbar > Views

• + Number key

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Model Display - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Show/Hide icon on browser Show/Hide  Access by hitting
• to hide the entity

• to show the entity

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Find Entity - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Find panel View Control toolbar > Find Entity
• Display control of entities:

• Attached - Find entities connected to selection

• Nearby - Find entities in the vicinity of the selection

• Shared by - Find entities shared between selection

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User Preferences - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
for Options panel File > Preferences…

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User Preferences - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
for Options panel Use Search Bar inside Preferences to
quickly find what you are searching for.

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Idle Selection - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Entity level interrogation, Masking, Deleting Idle Selection gives us the advantage of
etc.… must be done in different panels interrogating an entity, masking or deleting on
the go in the graphics area.

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Advanced Selection - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Advanced Selection was launched by clicking Advanced Selection is launched by clicking on
on the entity selection. the button or by hitting .
• This is consistent both for Idle mode or Browser
Entity Editor.

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Advanced Selection - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Elems selector If Entity selector is set to Nodes, Lines or
Elements:
• Advanced Selection > By Path

• Nodes > Quick advanced selection >

• context menu > Select > By Path

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Select Faces and Edges - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Click the switch to change the selection mode. Direct selection of mesh faces and edges is
available in some tools.

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Graphical Context Menu - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Activate the Selector, and release Use the Context menu to perform selection
displays the entity selection pop-up menu. using specific options.

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One Click Icon - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Unmask adjacent Button is moved to Context Menu (or )
• This option is sensitive to entity on the Idle selector
mode i.e., if idle selector is Component, then it will
show adjacent component and if idle selector is
Element, then it will show adjacent element.

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One Click Icon - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
User Profile File > Solver Interface

or

Startup dialog

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Copy Entities - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Organize panel > copy Available for Elements, Lines, Points, Loads,
Solids, and Surfaces only available in idle
mode. Select entities in the modeling window
then:
• Copy -
• Paste in new collector -
Use Move tool to position the pasted entities.

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Duplicate Entities - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Organize panel > elems > duplicate Creates a new entity with the same attributes as
the selected entity.
• Select an entity in a browser > press
or and select Duplicate from the context menu.

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Delete Entities - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Delete panel Select entities and do one of the following:
• and select Delete from the context menu.
• Press
• Click in an Entity View browser.
Note: When deleting certain entity types, you can choose to also
delete associated entities from a pop-up dialog.

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Browsers - Transition
Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Click icons to invoke specific browsers. from within Model browser to invoke Entity
View specific browsers.
• Limited to few entities only.
• Applies to all entities.

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Browsers - Transition
Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Flat Search - No filters Specific filters, auto populates based on the
Entity.
Example: Part browser

Search Bar

Auto
populates
based on
entities

Search Bar
Drill down
based on
Operators

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Browsers - Transition
Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Flat Search - No filters Ability add solver attributes as a column.

Attribute based filtering and sorting.

Example: Property browser

on Header bar

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Selection with Browser Entity Editor - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
The selection of an entity in browser always The selection is more advanced with either
popped up a new window as seen in the image dynamically selecting from the screen, or on
below. the fly search bar for filtering based on name or
ID, or Advanced Selection by clicking on .

Search Bar

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Accessing Browsers - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Tools > Contact Browser Model ribbon > Interactions group > Contacts
satellite icon.
• Satellite icon appears only when you hover the
mouse in that area.

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Accessing Tools - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Tools > ID Manager Assembly ribbon > Organize group >
Renumber satellite icon.
• Satellite icon appears only when you hover the
mouse in that area.

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Accessing Tools - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Tools > Unused Validate ribbon > Cleanup group > Unused and
Empty
Tools > Empty

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Organize - Transition
Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Tool > Organize panel Assembly ribbon > Organize group >
Organize

• Organize tool can now be invoked using

after selecting an entity in the browser.

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Define Orientation - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Define plane or vector: Use Along Vector option from microdialog.
• Use the N1, N2, N3 option to either define a plane Hold down and nodes in sequence:
(N1, N2, N3) or define a vector using two nodes (N1
and N2), in which case the plane is normal to the + 2 nodes
specified vector.  Vector between two nodes

+ 3 nodes
 Normal vector
to the plane
by the three
nodes

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Translate, Position, and Rotate - Transition

Legacy (Classic) HyperWorks NG
Translate, rotate and position panels:

Home group > Move tool

• Click a graphical manipulator

• the graphical manipulator to translate or rotate entities

in the selected direction(s).

• Enter a precise value in the

microdialog and press .

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