mvp toolbar 2012

Copyright © 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved.

Stefan Eberhard

Altair Germany

MVP Toolbar 2012


Agenda

MVP Toolbar

� General Information about MVP Toolbar

• History

• Quality Assurance

• Download and Installation

� Tool Highlights

• Animation Client

• Plot Client (HyperGraph)

• General Tools

• Hidden Tools

• Batch Tools

• Libraries

� Default Settings

� Support

HyperMath and HyperGraph


General

� What is the MVP Toolbar ?

• More than 500 Tools for HyperGraph / HyperView

• No HWU’s required

• Tools came out of support and customizing solutions

• Regularly updates available

=> Update every two month recommended


General

� Quality Assurance

• No official Altair Development => no standardized QA process

• No update to new HW version guaranteed

• Tools are tested at Altair Germany support

• If required quick bugfixes / new features could be provided

• Tools will be deleted from the MVP Toolbar if core functionalities available which

replace all features of the tool

• More tools will go to core into the near future


Download and Installation

� Download• Link to ftp-Server:

ftp://ftp.altair.de/pub/hyperworks/support/macro_toolbarsNew version available „MVP_Toolbar_<Datum>.zip“

� Installation:• Insert one line at the end of the file (.)preferences.mvw:

{mvp_toolbar_dir = "../MVP_Toolbar";include(mvp_toolbar_dir + "/preferences_macro.mvw")}

• Alternatively load via „File“ – „Load“ – “Preferences” another (.)preferences.mvw file containing the following lines:*Id("MotionView 11.0"){mvp_toolbar_dir = "../MVP_Toolbar";include(mvp_toolbar_dir + "/preferences_macro.mvw")}

� Installation Guide• For a more detailed installation guide and effective usage of the MVP Toolbar please

read the file MVP_Toolbar/readme.txt inside of the zip file.– Default settings

– FAQ’s

– Usage of different MVP Toolbar versions

– Error messages


HyperView Tools Overview

� All menus / tools with * came with the MVP Toolbar

� Context menu:


HyperView Tools

� Misc – Contour Value in Notes

• Notes created via ID lists

• Additional selection methods implemented

• Layouts defaults available


HyperView Tools

� Layout – Apply Style Detailed Selection

• Based on core functionality “Tools” - „Apply Style“

• Apply style of active model to a selection of different models


AVI‘s / H3D‘s Export Modal Frequency Selection

� Export Features:

• GUI for frequency selection

• All AVI / H3D export setting supported

• All windows will be set to the same frequency

• Sort & Label exported files according min / max

• Export ASCII Summary


… behind the scene …..

� Example: Attach notes automatically to max / min of sets

• Essential to use HyperView Reports without manual editing

• Notes and sets must have the same name

• The note should end with „ max“ or „ min“

• This is equal to attach to curve using “indexofmax(c1.y)”

• Attach notes to the absolute max / min

*BeginInterpreter("tcl")

::mvptoolbar::tools::executeInAllHVclients -attachMinNotesLabel "MinNote„ \

-attachMaxNotesLabel "MaxNote" -attachMinNotesToSets 1 -attachMaxNotesToSets 1

*EndInterpreter()


� Cuve Manipulation* – Filter* – Statistics* – Units* – Injury* – Layout* – Export* – Misc*

� Context menu:

HyperGraph Tools Overview


Advanced Build Plots – Standard Features

� Options for

• Manipulate curve names

• Filter Type, Request, Components

• X- and Y- axis

• Create math copy curves

• Scaling and offset

• Save settings


Advanced Build Plots – Subcases

� Subcase Handling

• Attach Subcases

• Plot all Subcases


Advanced Build Plots – Match Y Vector

� X-Requests match Y-Requests

• No need to select eachX-Vector seperately!!


Advanced Build Plots – Multiple Result Files

� Read in Curves from multiple result files in one shot

• Autofill result file list with file check

• Automatic curve labeling

• Sort curves file-, request- and component- dependent


Algebra / Trim N Curves

� Curve Manipulation –Algebra / Trim N Curves

• Graphical curve selection

• Calculation of sum, mean value, product and resultant

• Synchronization of curves with different x vectors:new x vector has of the points of the vector with the most points in the overlapping area of all selected curves

• Deletion of source curves

• Save as type „Value“

• Each plot could be calculated separately

• Trimming of result curves


Polar / Complex Plots: Math Multiple Curves

� Curve Manipulation –Polar / Complex Plots: Math Multiple Curves


• Add, Multiply, Substract, Divide

• Deletion of source curves

• Save as type „Value“

• Each plot could be calculated separately

• Create curves in new plot

• Trimming of result curves


MVP Toolbar - Envelopes

� Create max / min envelopes

� Synchronization also possible if curves have different numbers of points


Extrapolate Curves

� Curve Manipulation –Extrapolate Curves


• Curves could be extrapolated:

– Parallel to the x axis

– Along the gradient

– With zero value


Apply Style Detailed Selection

� Layout – Apply Style Detailed Selection

• Based on core functionality “Tools” - „Apply Style“

• Apply style of active window to a selection of other windows


Layout Tools

� Layout –Rename Curve by Color / Recolor Curve by Name

• Change curves properties name- or color-dependent

• Rename curves color-dependend


Layout Tools

� Layout –Show / Hide / Delete Curves Property dependent or Value dependent

• Show, hide or delete curve dependent from

– Name

– Color

– Resultfile

• Value dependent

− Dependent on max / min

• Options are combined with Boolean value „and“


Curve Export Features

� Export Templates

• Abaqus

• Radioss

• PamCrash

• LS-Dyna

• Madymo

� Excel CSV Export


General Tools

� Export – IMAGES Selected Pages - Advanced

• Screenshots of all selected pages will be saved in a new created subdirectory

• Supported image types: JPEG, BMP PNG, TIFF (uncompressed)

• Export image each window seperately

– User defined resolution

– Keep window aspect ration

• Batch-version included in MVP Toolbar


General Tools

� Export – Export to MS Office

• Page title inserted as text field or master title

• Visual Positioning of header and screenshot

• Support of slide master


Demo Sessions / Reports / Makros

• Demo session are necessary for efficient hotline support

• Get code examples via cut and paste from attached demo sessions

• Tips & tricks accessible via mouse click


Batch Tools

� Batch Tools for HyperView / HyperGraph• The directories

MVP_Toolbar/hg/batch/

MVP_Toolbar/hv/batch/

.......

contain batch tools created within the Altair hotline support

• Programming skills are required to adapt these scripts to your personal needs • For further information please contact

Stefan Eberhard+49 (0)89 379952-448

[email protected]


Batch Tools Example – Get Visible Values

� Export visible values from HyperView in a text file• Frequently used in HST to get a system response• Saves a lot of coding!!!• Get visible values or values from ID list• Get current time step values only, or max values all timesteps or from last timestep

d:\hw110_64\hw\bin\WIN64\hw.exe getVisibleValues_demo.mvw -tcl getVisibleValues.tcl


Not Implemented

� Tools which are not implemented because • … more work has to be done for general use• … no proof if the math formulas / standards / information provided by the

customer is correct• …. more work would be created I can handle• Examples:

Octave FiltersMaterial Curves


Not Implemented – Material Curves

� Create average curve from multiple material curves

• All curves will be made strictly monotone increasing by a Templex function

• Resampled math copy curves will be created, differently resampled for the linear part and the failure part

• Average curve from these curves will be created


Libs comming with the MVP Toolbar

� MVP Toolbar Lib using –options• Create unique curve handle

with minimum information as possible

• Lot of functions available to do the frequently asked for tasks

• Because the usage of –options robust for updates of the libraries

• HTML Documentation available


Libs comming with the MVP Toolbar

� Examples:

• Clear session:[GetSession] New

• Add new page with 2 windows from type plot:addPage -client Plot -layout 1 setActive 1 -label "Demo Plot Page "

• Add Sinus Curve in first window:addCurve -mathExprX 0:10:0.1 -mathExprY sin(x) -label Sinus -window 1 -color 2

• Add new page with 2 windows from type animation:addPage -client Animation -layout 1 setActive 1 -label "Demo Animation Page 2"

• Load model in window 1:loadModel -file $modelFile -resultfile $resultFile

• Set resulttype displacement:setContourResult -resulttype "Displacement“

• Get model handle from active model:set modelHandle [GetModel]

• Get client handle from plot page 1, window 2set clientHandle [GetClient -page 1 -window 2]


MVP Toolbar Settings

� Menu buttons

• Hide menus partly / totally

• Embedding of user specific menus with links to MVP Toolbar tools is possible

� GUI Defaults

• Default values could be set for tools with graphical interfaces

• Support for all users in central installations and user specific defaults

� Units of HyperGraph Macros

• Default units of Templex- and Tcl-based macros

� Deactivation of MVP Toolbar

• Loading of the MVP Toolbar in a central installation could be blocked by the user via an environment variable

• Loading of a different MVP Toolbar e.g. for testing purposes is possible


Tools activated by configuration files

� Some tools could only be activated by configuration files

• Example: Export / Import Session File (created for Takata Petri)

• The users work there with up to 20 sessions

• They save their multiple sessions and attach each sessions at their master session when everything is fine

• They nnow can do this via shortcuts

• The following lines must be defined in the file mvp_toolbar_defaults.tcl in HOME or parallel to the MVP Toolbar

# Exchange directory to export / append the current session via right mouse

button / shortcut

namespace eval ::mvptoolbar::general {

set exchangeDirectory "d:/home/eberhard/temp"

}


Updates / Versions

� Updates

• Regular updates according customer requirements

• Normally minor changes between each update

• Recommendation: Update every three month

� Versions

• More information about version, location etc. could be found at „Misc“ - „About MVP Toolbar“ and “What’s New in the MVP Toolbar …..”


MVP Toolbar Support

� Readme.txt

• For detailed inforamtion about installation, defaults, error messages etc. please read MVP_Toolbar/readme.txt.

� Files for default settings

• All files to adapt the default settings could be found in the directory MVP_Toolbar/user_defaults

� Implementation of new features

• Please contact

Stefan Eberhard+49 (0)89 [email protected]

or the Altair Hotline

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