Release Notes

HyperX Version 2026.1.13 Released April 2026

HyperLoads AKA “Space Potato”

New Features

  • New suite of tools for interactive 3D visualization of failure envelopes and design-to loads for panels
  • Design-to loads processing for a variety of approaches with enveloping, interrogation, and export tools
  • Visualization allowable envelopes in membrane and moment 3D space, for individual criteria as well as the overall capability of a zone across all criteria
  • Compare design-to and allowable loads with margin vectors, identifying critical load scenarios for each criterion

     

    HyperFEA

      New Features

      • Configurable convergence criteria for HyperFEA iterations
      • Significantly improved optimization approach for FEA buckling, frequency, and deflection / rotation using automated constraints

      Enhancements

      • Finish with Analysis” option is now active by default and stored per-project
      • Improved iteration logic so that masses and corresponding FEA results (eigenvalue, displacement, etc.) are consistently shown on the same line
      • Consolidated HyperFEA settings and run settings into common controls shared throughout the software
      • Ability to plot frequency and eigenvalue per iteration
      • Improved formatting of log information in the output window

       

      Analysis

        New Features

        • Support for temperature profiles, replacing zone-based temperature overrides for more efficient data storage and processing
        • Support for laminate allowables defined as a function of 1/kt – 1/3
        • Overhauled project runner with HyperFEA support

        Enhancements

        • Ability to set both “reduced” and “true” D stiffness requirements on panel settings

          Legend / Watch Window / Probe

          New Features

          • New legend coloring mode for flag margins
          • Ability to plot section cut discrete fields
          • New legend/watch window options for auto stiffness constraints, selected candidate number, and number of workable candidates
          • Ability to plot entity name and number (and include in labels)

             

            Materials

            New Features

            • Display of ABD values on laminate and laminate family forms
            • Display of Q matrix on effective laminate form

               

              Packages

                New Features

                • Ability to create a failure mode directly from the package manager, or run a script
                • Show API version for packages in the settings form
                • Setting categories for Solver criterion modules

                Enhancements

                • More granularity in picking which packages to include or exclude when creating a bundle
                • Warning before uninstalling packages that would delete results and failure modes

                    Scripting API

                      New Features

                      • Ability to get and set advanced project settings, including resetting to global defaults
                      • Ability to get and set excluded elements
                      • Ability to execute FEM reimport
                      • Ability to manage packages (install, update, remove)
                      • Ability to get and set Solver run settings
                      • Ability to cancel ongoing HyperFEA runs
                      • Ability to create design loads in bulk
                      • Ability to add and remove failure modes on analysis properties
                      • Ability to access material mode on design properties
                      • Report critical load case ID for element results
                      • Ability to run the script runner before opening a database or project
                      • Support for Python 3.13 in the script runner

                      Enhancements

                      • Significant performance improvements when used in certain loops
                      • More convenient access to bulk updaters for design properties and overrides

                        Miscellaneous

                          New Features

                          • HyperMesh entity mapping utilities when creating structures and sets
                          • Ply mirror feature
                          • Ability to export model as OBJ file
                          • Simple form to show keyboard shortcuts (accessible from the Help menu)
                          • New zone splitter preview coloring option to show which zones will be affected

                          Enhancements

                          • Design, load, and analysis properties from templates are now automatically included in new projects by default
                          • Ability to delete and move labels in the viewport (including probe and measurement labels)
                          • Ability to toggle measurement visibility directly from the measuring form
                          • Improved performance of structure tree and FEM tree when dealing with large numbers of zones

                              Older Releases

                              HyperX Version 2025.1.4 (R33) Released November 2025

                              Composites

                              New Features

                              • Ability to map variable fiber directions to plies in the ply manager

                                 

                                FEM / FEA

                                  New Features

                                  • Support for Abaqus 2025

                                  Enhancements

                                  • Reduce the tendency of the FEM/FEA import forms to regenerate the preview FEM in situations where it is not necessary

                                   

                                  Bug Fixes

                                  • Fix poor naming behavior of discrete fields created via point mapping utility
                                  • Fix bugs when picking nodes in the vector definition form
                                  • Fix an edge case in discretely stiffened model analysis where some plugin methods may not get executed
                                  • Fix incorrect unit conversion when setting design property overrides via the scripting API
                                  • Fix a bug where incorrect design properties could be shown as selected in the laminate family trade study form

                                    HyperX Version 2025.1.4 (R32) Released September 2025

                                    Scripting API

                                    New Features

                                    • Ability to create, delete, and edit design load cases

                                    Enhancements

                                    • Improve performance of design load override manipulation

                                     

                                    Miscellaneous

                                    New Features

                                    • Add CSV import functionality for design load cases

                                       

                                      Bug Fixes

                                      • Fix issues processing nested include files in some FEMs
                                      • Prevent incorrect warning about tapered PBEAM properties
                                      • Fix occasional errors saving various forms
                                      • Fix issues processing certain OP2 files from OptiStruct and NX Nastran
                                      • Fix issues processing certain HDF5 FEA result files

                                        HyperX Version 2025.1.4 (R31) Released July 2025

                                        Bug Fixes

                                        • Fix an issue preventing the “Stop” button in HyperFEA from working
                                        • Fix an issue running sizing with composite materials using polynomial laminate allowable definitions
                                        • Fix an issue where sizing / analyzing with peak loads could assess more elements and load cases than intended

                                          HyperX Version 2025.1.4 (R21) Released July 2025

                                          CAD and Digital Thread

                                          New Features

                                          • Support for new CAD file formats: .jt, .x_t, .x_b (import and export), Siemens NX .prt and CATIA .CATPart (import only)
                                          • Export of HyperX labels as CAD annotations
                                          • Preserve CAD entity names when exporting from HyperX
                                          • New utilities to merge surfaces and curves
                                          • New options for creating CAD points, curves, and surfaces
                                          • The probe can now show labels on CAD entities

                                           

                                          Section Cuts

                                          New Features

                                          • New tools for plotting section cut loads, including envelope and potato plots
                                          • Ability to export section cut loads in bulk

                                          Enhancements

                                          • Significantly faster calculation of section cut loads for large models

                                           

                                          Legend

                                          New Features

                                          • Ability to show counts / percentages of items in each legend bin
                                          • Ability to show a histogram of these counts / percentages
                                          • Ability to plot section cut locations in global coordinates
                                          • Ability to plot controlling object for zone analysis results
                                          • Ability to plot laminate stacking sequence
                                          • Ability to color CAD by its attributes

                                          Enhancements

                                          • Visualization settings are saved per-project between sessions
                                          • Better display of subscripts, superscripts, and Greek characters

                                           

                                          Packages

                                          New Features

                                          • New package infrastructure to manage scripts and other future HyperX customizations

                                             

                                            Composites

                                            New Features

                                            • Support for Fibersim H5 ply import / export

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Improve naming / organization scheme for ply boundary curves generated by HyperX

                                             

                                            HyperFEA

                                            New Features

                                            • New batch mode for executing many rundecks at once through custom (e.g. HPC) processes
                                            • Option to finish iterations with analysis instead of sizing so that margins and FEA loads are synchronized

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Allow running partially-setup projects
                                            • Improved performance of automated constraint calculation

                                             

                                            HyperXpert

                                            New Features

                                            • Option to show only pareto frontier points
                                            • Ability to include newly-created zone sets in existing run sets

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Reorganize toolbar for improved usability

                                             

                                            FEM / FEA

                                            New Features

                                            • Include transverse shear stiffness of smeared-stiffened panels in FEM export
                                            • Support for new “End Data” comment to instruct HyperX to stop parsing the file

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Improve Abaqus ODB version detection logic

                                            Scripting API

                                            New Features

                                            • Copy sizing results to analysis overrides
                                            • Generate HyperXpert points
                                            • Create DSM design properties
                                            • Get / set plate element material directions
                                            • Toggle all load components on FEA load properties

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Standardize use of names vs. IDs for materials in the API

                                             

                                            Miscellaneous

                                            New Features

                                            • New feature to select entities by providing a list of IDs
                                            • Forms with ID entry boxes now have options for copying / pasting ranges in various formats
                                            • New button on ribbon to compact the HyperX database
                                            • New hotkeys for show-only (Ctrl+I) and reverse hidden / visible (Ctrl+R)

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Refreshed UI for pre-sizing / analysis validation of design property inputs
                                            • New advanced setting to assume fastener is normal to sheet for bearing load calculation
                                            • New advanced setting to prescribe the maximum angle of a connector to attached sheet for inclusion in joint load calculations
                                            • Smarter display of coordinate system axis labels to prevent viewport clutter

                                            HyperX Version 2024.2.13 (R90) Released June 2025

                                            Enhancements

                                            • Add support for activating / deactivating design cases via the scripting API
                                            • Add support to change stiffened panel independent height variable via the scripting API
                                            • Add support to get and set design case overrides via the scripting API

                                              HyperX Version 2024.2.13 (R85) Released April 2025

                                              Enhancements

                                              • Add support for changing fabrication criteria via scripting API

                                              Bug Fixes

                                              • Fix an error using HyperXpert when HyperX is installed with the Dashboard component disabled

                                                HyperX Version 2024.2.13 (R82) Released March 2025

                                                Enhancements

                                                • Support for Linux-hosted license servers

                                                  HyperX Version 2024.2.13 (R80) Released February 2025

                                                  Performance Improvements

                                                  • Improved viewport, tree, and load time performance when interacting with models with large numbers of properties or zones
                                                  • Improved model load and show/hide performance when many coordinate systems are present
                                                  • Improved selection performance from viewport and tree
                                                  • Improved performance of “show only” operations

                                                   

                                                  Enhancements

                                                  • Provide status updates when creating designs from the FEM tree
                                                  • Ability to create and assign designs when creating structures through the scripting API

                                                     

                                                    Bug Fixes

                                                    • Fix scripting API bug retrieving entities that have been recently renamed
                                                    • Fixed issues resulting in coordinate systems appearing when they should not

                                                      HyperX Version 2024.2.13 Released October 2024

                                                      HyperXpert

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • “Limit Design Space” functionality that improves speed by avoiding returning multiple very-similar candidates
                                                      • Import runset data from another database
                                                      • Structure- and set-based points
                                                      • Plotting by geometric variables
                                                      • Improvements to HyperXpert plot form user interface

                                                       

                                                      FEM/FEA Import and Export

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Support for CBEAM, CQUAD8, CTRIA6, CQUADR, CTRIAR element types

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Reduce frequency of unnecessary preview FEM regeneration
                                                      • Improved support for MSC Nastran element sets
                                                      • Allow sizing/analyzing even if FEA result files are missing, as long as forces have been imported
                                                      • Support for Abaqus 2024

                                                       

                                                      Zone Splitter

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Support for splitting using cylindrical coordinate systems
                                                      • New options to merge zones before splitting

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • More flexible length-based zone splitting options (user-provided length or number of zones instead of approximate element count)

                                                       

                                                      Scripting API

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Create new zones
                                                      • Import materials in bulk from Excel
                                                      • Create and generate effective laminates
                                                      • Execute discrete field mapping functions
                                                      • Retrieve analysis details
                                                      • Execute database compare
                                                      • Package/unpackage projects
                                                      • Retrieve HyperX installation directory
                                                      • Create and manipulate structure folders

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Assign properties in bulk to zones/joints
                                                      • Rename materials
                                                      • Retrieve zone weights on a per-solution basis

                                                       

                                                      Analysis

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Additional plugin methods are available upon request for Fatigue, Sandwich, and Spar analysis. See documentation here.
                                                      • Option to export stress report after each HyperFEA sizing iteration

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Reduce frequency of unnecessary peak loads regeneration
                                                      • Improved accuracy of analysis of open beam sections under torsion loads
                                                      • Improved accuracy of crippling and laminate strength checks for bonded panels

                                                       

                                                      CAD

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Query CAD data in the watch window
                                                      • Create and manipulate planes
                                                      • Intersection and splitting operations
                                                      • Extract sub-entities from CAD geometry (e.g. surfaces from a solid)

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Create curves via “Point and Direction” and “From Points”

                                                       

                                                      Joints

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Ability to specify fastener spacing in terms of diameter multiples
                                                      • Add more analysis details to bonded joint methods

                                                       

                                                      Performance

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Design loads overrides form
                                                      • Discrete field import for large data sets
                                                      • Initial model load
                                                      • Interaction with the FEM tree
                                                      • Importing large numbers of laminates / laminate families from Excel
                                                      • Laminate family forms and workflows

                                                       

                                                      Miscellaneous

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Create and manage coordinate systems
                                                      • General-purpose measuring tool and ability to save measurements
                                                      • Visualize elements that are excluded from analysis via a legend plot option
                                                      • Create folders containing selected items directly via context menu

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Ability to set a user-defined rotation center (MMB click on model)
                                                      • Planar camera rotation is now easier to trigger (hold MMB + RMB)
                                                      • Optionally include additional files when packaging a project
                                                      • Improved stability when network connectivity issues occur during long-running jobs
                                                      • Option to rename existing folders in the Structure and CAD trees

                                                      HyperX Version 2024.1.10 Released June 2024

                                                      New Features

                                                      • New Scripting API Capabilities
                                                        • Ability to execute the database compare tool
                                                        • Ability to package and unpackage projects
                                                      • Allow sizing/analysis without FEA results files if forces have already been imported
                                                      • Ability to include additional files in HyperX project packages

                                                      Bug Fixes

                                                      • Changed crippling calculation of Fc,axial stress allowable to remove over-conservative bending dependence
                                                      • Allow user to re-connect to license server if connection is lost rather than closing software
                                                      • Improve memory performance of analysis and sizing when using filtered design cases
                                                      • Improved support for MSC Nastran element sets
                                                      • Fix analysis of hybrid composite materials with Bearing-Bypass correction factors
                                                      • Clarified analysis detail reporting for Max Principal Stress failure analysis

                                                      HyperX Version 2024.1.9 Released April 2024

                                                      HyperXpert™ and Batch Runs

                                                      New Features

                                                      • HyperXpert provides new workflows to study tradeoffs of weight and producibility
                                                        • HyperXpert generates Design of Experiment (DOE) data on all feasible designs within your defined design space
                                                        • Plotting tools allow you to identify structural designs that are low-weight with reduced design variability zone-to-zone
                                                      • New tool for executing many sizing runs in batch with the HyperXpert tool or for upload to the HyperX Cloud Dashboard

                                                       

                                                      Database Comparison Tool

                                                      New Features

                                                      • A new tool to generate comprehensive comparisons between two databases (and projects). Identifies differences in model definition, settings, sizing results, materials, design/load/analysis properties, and more.

                                                       

                                                      Structure Tree

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to organize structures, sets, and section cuts into user-created folders. The folders may be nested with as many layers as desired.

                                                       

                                                      Materials, Laminates, Fasteners, and Rivets

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to link many materials at once during structure creation (via Excel)
                                                      • New library and picker forms that show material metadata such as density, family, and FEM ID

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Ability to copy fasteners and rivets
                                                      • Warning messages are produced when attempting to modify materials, laminates, etc. that are in use in other projects in a database

                                                       

                                                      Scripting API

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to setup and execute HyperFEA
                                                      • Ability to create and edit laminates
                                                      • Ability to import FEA results
                                                      • Ability to retrieve sizing results for zones and joints

                                                       

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Ability to return zones to unused FEM
                                                      • Ability to edit zone settings in bulk which can substantially speed up these operations when processing many zones

                                                       

                                                      Design Loads Overrides

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Zone-specific overrides of analysis temperature, limit, ultimate, help, and hurt factors are now managed in HyperX and stored in the database rather than in separate CSV files
                                                      • Generation and application of filtered design cases per-zone are managed through this same process
                                                      • Important: Existing CSV and CLC files will not be automatically migrated. Users must import these lists into the software to continue to use them.

                                                       

                                                      CAD

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to generate and export to-scale CAD geometry for beam results
                                                      • Ability to generate and export to-scale CAD for smeared grid-stiffened concepts

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Ability to configure the fidelity of CAD rendering (e.g. how faceted circles and curved edges appear)
                                                      • Ability to generate midsurface stiffeners
                                                      • Options to include skin offset when generated smeared or discrete stiffener CAD

                                                       

                                                      Legend

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to create legend color palettes to span a range of colors automatically

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Usability improvements to the color palette manager

                                                       

                                                      Visualization

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to view grid-stiffened cross sections in 3D (for smeared concepts)

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Additional model shading modes (ambient occlusion and drop shadow)

                                                       

                                                      Performance Improvements

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • User FEA load form when many rows are present
                                                      • Structure creation (especially when dealing with joints)
                                                      • Overall application startup and model load
                                                      • Several scripting API functions

                                                       

                                                      Miscellaneous

                                                      New Features

                                                      • Ability to place a scale reference human in the viewport
                                                      • Ability to import and export CATIA plybook from Ply Manager

                                                      Enhancements

                                                      • Improved behavior of section cuts when perfectly aligned with mesh boundaries
                                                      • FEA loads import is now automatically initiated when appropriate rather than warning the user it had not been done
                                                      • FEA loads import and peak load processing are now cancellable
                                                      • Support for HyperMesh long format property names
                                                      • Support for multi-material laminates for bearing-bypass analysis

                                                        HyperX Version 2023.2.6 Released August 2023

                                                        Laminates and Laminate Families

                                                        New Features

                                                        • New picker forms with metadata for laminates / laminate families
                                                        • Ability to pick individual laminates from a laminate family for designs and overrides
                                                        • Ability to create orphan (not in laminate-family) laminates for skins and stiffeners
                                                        • Ability to create and edit stiffener laminate families manually
                                                        • Ability to select a new laminate for a zone when viewing its design results
                                                        • Overhauled stiffener laminate (and family) workflows, now specifying a stiffener profile during creation
                                                        • Ability to automatically generate traditional “quad” (0/+-45/90) and double-double laminate families by specifying angle targets
                                                        • Ability to automatically create a laminate family based on a structure’s plies

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Significant performance improvements working in databases with many laminates / families

                                                         

                                                        CAD

                                                        New Features

                                                        • Basic CAD creation (points, lines, curves)
                                                        • Ability to generate parallel offset curves
                                                        • Ability to generate stiffener profiles (2D and 3D) for smeared and discretely-stiffened panels and export these entities for use in CAD packages

                                                         

                                                        FEM/FEA

                                                        New Features

                                                        • Support for HDF5 output files from MSC Nastran and Altair OptiStruct

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Significant performance improvements importing FEA forces in some situations

                                                         

                                                        Projects

                                                        New Features

                                                        • Project packaging & unpackaging tool – quickly collect all files needed to share a project between computers or users

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Working folders are now unique per project per database, allowing multiple projects with the same name on a single machine
                                                        • Additional options are provided to the user when copying projects to control whether design/analysis/load properties are shared, etc.

                                                         

                                                        Legend

                                                        New Features

                                                        • Ability to create, edit, and delete legend color palettes

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Data outside of user-defined min and max bounds can now be assigned a custom color
                                                        • Ability to sort discrete data (controlling design case, controlling criterion, etc.) by count

                                                         

                                                        Section Cuts

                                                        New Features

                                                        • New tabular form to edit many section cuts simultaneously

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Measuring tool in section cut form 2D cross-section viewer

                                                         

                                                        Analysis

                                                        New Features

                                                        • Added a method to assess column buckling of panels

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Can now apply beam load properties (i.e. P/V/M) to panels
                                                        • Enabled interlaminar shear analysis for web and cap beams
                                                        • Enabled Effective Laminate analysis for cap beams
                                                        • Laminate family design study can now be run with detailed sizing (support for plugins, required margins, etc.)
                                                        • Can now specify interaction exponent for bonded joints analyzed with VCCT power law criterion
                                                        • Provide additional analysis details when running bearing-bypass joint analysis

                                                         

                                                        Scripting API

                                                        New Features

                                                        • Ability to export updated FEM
                                                        • Support for section cuts (retrieval of properties/loads, creation, editing of inputs, etc.)
                                                        • Ability to retrieve ply information for a structure, and import / export in CSV format
                                                        • Ability to import and edit discrete fields, including in VCP format

                                                         

                                                        Miscellaneous

                                                        Enhancements

                                                        • Ability to name load scenarios in user FEA load properties
                                                        • Increased the permissible number of points for laminate allowables to 100
                                                        • Added an option to create non-FEA panel rather than non-FEA beam from section cut loads
                                                        • Ability to create fewer designs (using overrides) when importing laminate designs from a FEM during structure creation
                                                        • Laminates created from FEA (e.g. PCOMPs) are now read-only for traceability and their FEM usage is now shown in the property tree
                                                        • Added button to trees to expand collapsed nodes incrementally

                                                          HyperX Version 2023.1.3 Released March 2023

                                                          Miscellaneous

                                                          New Features

                                                          • Training material is now installed with the software and available from the start screen
                                                          • Ability to access help system offline

                                                          Enhancements

                                                          • Improved forms and workflows for modifying element material directions

                                                          Notable Bug Fixes

                                                          • Element based margin display now properly includes required margins
                                                          • Design Overrides forms now properly show only selected zones when launched from the ribbon
                                                          • Analysis properties are now sorted by name in the property tree rather than creation order
                                                          • Fixed issue sequencing core plies
                                                          • Fixed several issues using the stiffener laminate family form
                                                          • Fixed several issues creating section cuts

                                                           

                                                          Analysis

                                                          New Features

                                                          • Enabled Column Buckling criterion for panels

                                                           

                                                          Scripting

                                                          New Features

                                                          • Ability to retrieve the project working folder path
                                                          • Ability to export FEM

                                                            HyperX Version 2023.1.1 Released February 2023

                                                            Composites

                                                            New Features

                                                            • Added ability to manage ply transitions for sequencing, including displaying them in the viewport
                                                            • Added ability to specify maximum transition width to limit the number of plies dropped or added across a transition
                                                            • Support for analyzing with true fiber directions (TFD) based on discrete fields
                                                            • Ability to import/export plies with HDF5 formats, as well as HyperX-format CSV

                                                             

                                                            Scripting

                                                            New Features

                                                            • New Script Runner feature that allows users to manage and execute scripts from within the HyperX interface (new button on the Run tab)
                                                            • Added API functions to upload to the HyperX Dashboard
                                                            • Added API functions to manipulate design properties (tooling constraint selections and values, and detailed sizing inputs)

                                                             

                                                            Legend

                                                            New Features

                                                            • Ability to plot non-structural mass (added weight)
                                                            • Ability to plot which zones have overrides for sizing and analysis
                                                            • Ability to plot many additional zone settings (reference plane, offset, etc.)
                                                            • Ability to plot string discrete fields (formerly known as custom data)
                                                            • Ability to plot stiffener and skin weights separately (also available in structure tree data)

                                                             

                                                            Design Properties

                                                            Enhancements

                                                            • New tabbed layout for design properties to allow easy access to both sizing and analysis inputs

                                                             

                                                            Structure Creation

                                                            Enhancements

                                                            • Import of Non-Structural Mass (NSM) is now optional on a structure-by-structure basis (controlled by structure creation form)

                                                             

                                                            Joints

                                                            Enhancements

                                                            • Added analysis details for connector ID, fastener temperature, individual correction factors, and missing bolt information for some analyses

                                                             

                                                            Miscellaneous

                                                            Enhancements

                                                            • Significant performance improvements for: design loads form, zone overrides form, model load time, design property assignment, and others
                                                            • Element-based analysis results are now imported when using the group database manager (“enterprise workflow”)
                                                            • Effective laminates are updated when constituent composite material properties change

                                                              HyperX Version 2022.2.8 Released October 2022

                                                              Section Cuts

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Ability to create many section cuts simultaneously
                                                              • Ability to “heal” section cut cross-sections by connecting nodes that were detected as disconnected

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Closed cells are shaded gray to show where they were automatically detected

                                                               

                                                              Analysis

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Important: “Size” and “Analyze” are now distinct operations for panels and beams, maintaining separate “Sizing Inputs” and “Analysis Inputs”. See this link.
                                                              • Plugin user constants are now handled as settings in Analysis Properties for improved transparency and management
                                                              • Added “true average” option to Average load properties
                                                              • Ability to specify preferred analysis ID from plugins (rather than HyperX automatically assigning them)

                                                               

                                                              General

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Added ability to renumber zones (individually and through the zone settings table)

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Ability to number zones created by the split-up utility by minimum element ID

                                                               

                                                              FEM / FEA Import

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Added support for relative FEM and FEA file paths
                                                              • Added support for macro paths using {DATA_FOLDER} and {INSTALL_FOLDER}
                                                              • Added ability to create designs from FEM properties as a standalone process

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Added a toggle option on the FEA import option to control whether or not iterated loads (_i files from HyperFEA) are used

                                                              Composites

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Added support for all panel concepts (skins and facesheets only) in the laminate family trade study
                                                              • Added ability to create “core plies” and manage them alongside composite plies

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Modified ply sequence and name logic to improve handoff to CAD and other composites design software

                                                               

                                                              Watch Window

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Simplified workflow for creating plots from watch window data, and allow saving and loading or templates
                                                              • Can now add element forces, moments and margins of safety to the watch window

                                                              Viewport

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Added “Saved Views” to store camera location, legend plotting options, etc.
                                                              • Added coordinate systems and rigid elements to the FEM tree and viewport

                                                               

                                                              Non-FEA

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Added non-FEA joints

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Added optional indicators for non-FEA zone orientations
                                                              • Non-FEA Beams and Unstiffened panels optionally show to-scale dimensions

                                                               

                                                              Tree

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Property tree now shows ply materials nested under design properties using laminates or laminate families, and fasteners and material under joint design properties
                                                              • Tree data (weights, margin of safety, etc.) that was being shown is now saved when the application closes and restored on re-opening

                                                              Materials

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Improved copy-paste behavior on material form data grids

                                                               

                                                              Scripting

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Ability to pipe status updates from the API to the calling script (for long-running operations like sizing)
                                                              • Ability to create databases
                                                              • Ability to create, copy, and delete projects
                                                              • Ability to view and change rundecks for a project and set FEM units
                                                              • Ability to create new zones and edit membership of existing ones
                                                              • Ability to view, create, and edit panel segments
                                                              • Ability to renumber zones

                                                               

                                                              Miscellaneous

                                                              New Features

                                                              • Added ability to open a database without loading a project (for management of materials, properties, etc.)
                                                              • Added setting to show reserve factor instead of margins of safety (controlled through Viewport Settings form)

                                                              Enhancements

                                                              • Overhauled custom data import form and renamed as “discrete fields” stored in a library in the property tree and easily exported, imported or edited after import.

                                                                HyperX Version 2022.1.7 Released May 2022

                                                                CAD

                                                                New Features

                                                                • Ability to import and export CAD files through IGES and STEP files. CAD files are imported and stored in the HyperX database and managed through the CAD tree.

                                                                 

                                                                Plies

                                                                New Features

                                                                • The ply manager is a new tool for working with composite plies efficiently. Add, remove, and modify plies individually or together; adjust stacking sequence; import plies using CATIA XML format.
                                                                • Create plies using CAD curves, with automatic mapping to FEM elements
                                                                • Import plies from CAD and analyze in HyperX
                                                                • Create CAD curves from plies and export them to CAD tools such as CATIA, 3DX, or Creo

                                                                 

                                                                Section Cuts

                                                                New Features

                                                                • Ability to calculate built up section forces and moments for each load case, including Excel reports
                                                                • Ability to constrain the position of the stiffness-weighted centroid, shear center, and angle of the principal bending axes during sizing
                                                                • Ability to automatically create a non-FEA beam with user loads corresponding to the computed section cut forces and moments

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Enhanced algorithms for sizing section cut to stiffness requirements (EI, GJ), including user-customizable preference for smooth stiffness distributions vs. targeted
                                                                • Section cut stiffness requirements are now managed separately from user-defined panel stiffness requirements for improved transparency
                                                                • Section cuts remain visible in the viewport even when they do not intersect any elements
                                                                • Ability to define section cut origin location by picking a grid point

                                                                 

                                                                Non-FEA

                                                                New Features

                                                                • User loads for rapid sizing, detailed sizing, and final analysis
                                                                • Ability to create and analyze/size non-FEA zones with user loads

                                                                 

                                                                Scripting

                                                                New Features

                                                                • Retrieve and assign designs, load properties, and analysis properties to zones and joints
                                                                • Retrieve margins of safety and associated information for zones and joints
                                                                • Retrieve weights for zones
                                                                • Create and manage the membership of structures

                                                                 

                                                                Materials

                                                                New Features

                                                                • New node in property tree and form for viewing effective laminates and their properties, including ability to modify constituent materials or ply percentages
                                                                • When editing a composite material’s properties, changes will automatically be reflected in any effective laminates using that material without having to regenerate them
                                                                • New node in property tree and form for viewing adhesive materials and their properties

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Support for polynomial laminate allowables for composites
                                                                • Ability to plot laminate allowable curves

                                                                 

                                                                Analysis

                                                                New Features

                                                                • Peak element load processing for discretely-stiffened models (DSM)

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Rapid sizing, element sizing, and design studies now fully support temperature-dependent properties during sizing

                                                                 

                                                                FEM Import

                                                                New Features

                                                                • Support for Abaqus 2022

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Users can now edit paths directly in the FEM import form
                                                                • Improved consistency of unused FEM loading when toggling it on in the FEM tree

                                                                 

                                                                Legend / Watch Window

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Can now plot assigned design, load, and analysis properties from legend / watch window
                                                                • Can now plot weight from the legend / watch window
                                                                • Added additional color pallets for plotting from the legend

                                                                 

                                                                Plugins

                                                                New Features

                                                                • Plugins can now prescribe QuickHelp information to be displayed on the failure mode forms, including multiple sections and figures

                                                                 

                                                                Performance

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Improved performance in selecting FEM tree nodes
                                                                • Improved performance of structure creation
                                                                • Improved performance of model load and FEM import
                                                                • Improved performance of hiding and showing entities in the viewport
                                                                • Improved performance of plotting data from the legend

                                                                 

                                                                Miscellaneous

                                                                Enhancements

                                                                • Search tool (Ctrl+H) now includes all primary materials, properties, and entities
                                                                • Selection from the FEM tree is now more powerful when the selected entities are in-use in structures
                                                                • Improved accuracy of automatically-calculated buckling spans, curvature directions, and centroids for panels
                                                                • Feature (“surface”) selection is enabled for unused FEM
                                                                • Ability to enter values in various forms in scientific notation (e.g. 5e4 instead of 50000)

                                                                  HyperX Version 2022.0.0 Released February 2022

                                                                  Sample Projects

                                                                  New Features

                                                                  • Quickly create sample projects for simple use cases to review supported modeling approaches and use cases

                                                                     

                                                                    Section Cuts

                                                                    Enhancements

                                                                    • Indicators for centroid, shear center, etc. on the section cut form
                                                                    • Improved form usability for calculated properties

                                                                       

                                                                      Bearing Bypass Joint Analysis

                                                                      New Features

                                                                      • Support for analysis of effective laminates

                                                                      Enhancements

                                                                      • Clearer behavior when correction factors and allowables are “out of bounds”
                                                                      • Improvements to overall robustness

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