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Altair Hypermesh

Altair Computing, Inc.

MESHING
RESEARCH
CORNER

MESH/GRID
GENERATION
SOFTWARE
SURVEY

Contact: George Christ

Email: gjc@altair.com

Web Site: http://www.altair.com/software/hw_hm.htm

Availability: Commercial Code

Customer Support: Yes

Approximate Number of Users: 5000

Pricing: Available upon request

Platform: Windows, UNIX (sgi, hp, sun, ibm)

Input: IGES

    IGES, VDAFS, CATIA direct, Unigraphics direct, STL

Engineering Discipline: Structural

    Structural Analysis, Auto industry

Elements: Triangle, Quadrilateral, Tetrahedra, Hexahedra, Wedge (Prism)

Surface Meshing: Yes

Tri/Tet Method: Advancing Front

Quad/Hex Method: Advancing Front, Sweeping, Mapped Meshing

    extruding

Element Sizing Method: Manual

    global size parameter with interactive control over element density on every surface edge.

Other Features:

    Good support for explicit crash codes such as LS-DYNA3D, PAM-CRASH, RADIOSS

Comments:

    Quote: "HyperMesh is the most widely used FE pre and post-processor in the world wide auto industry."