*morphupdateparameter

Syntax

*morphupdateparameter parameter value

Type

HyperMesh Tcl Modify Command

Description

This command updates integer/real morphing parameters.

Inputs

parameter

The parameter of interest. Valid parameters are:

handlesize: the display size, in model units, of morphing handles

symsize: the display size, in model units, of morphing symmetries

morphconstraintsize: the display size, in model units or screen units, of morphing constraints

• Real > 0.0 = value is size in model units
• Real < 0.0 = absolute value is size in screen units

domainicons: show icons at the centroids of domains

• 0 – hide icons
• 1 – show icons

mvdraw: number of points along morph volume edges during drawing

mvgraph: style of graphics for morph volumes

• 0 – wireframe
• 1 – light tint
• 2 – opaque
• 3 – medium tint
• 4 – heavy tint

edgedomaincolor: color for edge domains

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

facedomaincolor: color for 2d domains

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

soliddomaincolor: color for 3d domains

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

domaincolor: color for 1d, global, and general domains

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

facecolor: color for shell elements created on 3d domains

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

mvcolor: color for morph volumes

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

symcolor: color for symmetries

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

symlinks: apply handle morphing to other handles linked by symmetry

• 0 - all off
• 1 - on (only active symmetries will be applied)

constraints: apply constraints after morphing

• 0 - all off
• 1 - on (only active morphconstraints will be applied)

midnodes: method for adjusting element midnodes during morphing

• 0 - No correction
• 1 - Force midpoint
• 2 - Hold current
• 3 - Curve edge domains
• 4 - Curve 2D domains

minstepdist: minimum step size (in model units) for interactive morphing

minstepangle: minimum step size (in degrees) for interactive morphing

handletolerance: no larger than 1/10th of handle size - used to calculate a number of small tolerance measures in HyperMorph

biasstyle: type of biasing used for handles

• 0 - exponential
• 1 - sinusoidal

influencethreshold: minimum influence of a handle over a node

• Real number greater than zero and less than 1.0

qaparam: element quality check to be displayed after each morph – where noted (+/-) use negative values for minimum check, positive values for maximum check

• 0 – Off
• 1 - 1D length (+/-)
• 2 - 2D warpage
• 3 - 2D skew
• 4 - 2D aspect ratio
• 5 - 2D length (+/-)
• 6 - 2D jacobian
• 7 - 2D chordal deviation
• 8 - 2D quad angle (+/-)
• 9 - 2D tria angle (+/-)
• 10 - 3D warpage
• 11 - 3D aspect
• 12 - 3D tetra altitude aspect
• 13 - 3D skew
• 14 - 3D volumetric skew
• 15- 3D length (+/-)
• 16 - 3D jacobian
• 17 - 3D tetra collapse
• 18 - 3D quad angle (+/-)
• 19 - 3D tria angle (+/-)
• 23 - All elements time step
• 24 – 2D Equia skew
• 25 - 2D Squish
• 26 – 2D Taper
• 27 – 3D Squish
• 28 – 3D Equia Skew
• 29 – 3D Orthogonality
• 30 – 3D Size Ratio
• 99 – Quality Index

qavalue: the upper or lower failure limit for element quality

qaplot: type of plotting of failed elements during element quality check

• 0 - highlight failed elements
• 1 - used color assigned plot

qanegjac: scan morphed elements for negative Jacobians after each morph

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

smoothmeth: method used for automatic smoothing (use positive values to smooth after interactive morphing, negative value to smooth during interactive morphing)

• 0 - none
• 1 - autoselect
• 2 - size corrected
• 3 - shape corrected
• 4 - angle corrected
• 5 - QI optimized
• 6 - kriging (or autodecide for elements outside of local domains)
• 7 - kriging (or size corrected for elements outside of local domains)
• 8 - kriging (or shape corrected for elements outside of local domains)
• 9 - kriging (or angle corrected for elements outside of local domains)
• 10 - kriging (or QI optimized for elements outside of local domains)
• 11 - kriging (ignore elements outside of local domains)
• 12 – unsquish (fast)
• 13 – unsquish (even)
• 14 – unsquish (best)

smoothiter: number of iterations for smoothmeth (options 1 - 4 and 6 - 9 only)

remesh: when remeshing after morphing occurs

• 0 - off
• 1 - manual
• 2 - on release

rmlast: remesh interval – use “hm_getoption morph_remeshing_interval” to retrieve the current value for this option, if the value is:

• Greater than -1: remesh all morphed elements since the last remesh
• Less than -8: remesh only morphed elements for the most recent morph
• to change from one mode to the other set to (current_value * -1.0) – 10.0

rmstyle: remesh or rebuild the morphed mesh

• 0 – Remesh
• 1 – Rebuild

remeshtype: elements used when auto-remeshing

• 0 - trias
• 1 - quads
• 2 - mixed
• 3 - right trias

rmcalc: how the remeshing target element size is set

• 0 – Average elements to be remeshed
• 1 – Use element size in the criteria file
• 2 – Set value manually

remeshtarg: target size of remeshed elements during auto-remeshing

rmedges: remesh edge domains during auto-remeshing

• 0 - do not remesh edge domains
• 1 - remesh edge domains

remeshfail: percentage of failed elements needed to trigger auto-remeshing

rmzone: how much of the morphed mesh to remesh

• 0 – all morphed elements
• 1 – only failed elements
• 2 – failed elements + 1 row
• 3 – failed elements + 2 rows
• 4 – failed elements + 3 rows

remeshsize: bias toward similar element size during remeshing

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

remeshskew: use skew control when auto-remeshing

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

remeshpres: preserve shapes when auto-remeshing

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

rmthreed: remesh 3D elements with pyras and tretras during auto-remeshing

• 0 - do not remesh 3D and 2D face domains
• 1 - remesh 3D and 2D face domains

mvon: morphing of entities inside of morph volumes

• -1 – inactive and skin only
• 0 – inactive
• 1 – active
• 2 – active and skin only

mvmode: method for calculating morph volume edge curvature

• 0 - Lagrange
• 1 - spline

mvreparam: either maintain the initial continuity between linked edges or reset it

• 0 – maintain during morphing and during adjustment
• 1 – maintain during morphing but reset after adjustment
• 2 – reset during morphing but maintain after adjustment
• 3 – reset during morphing and after adjustment

mvtol: 0.0 - 1.0, mapping tolerance - accuracy increases as tolerance decreases

mvconnreg: which connectors get registered to morphvolumes during creation and after adjustment

• 0 – all
• 1 – displayed connectors
• 2 - none

mvconnreal: treatment of registered connectors during morphing

• 0 – maintain
• 1 – unrealize
• 2 – unrealize + rerealize

connectors: style of morphing for connectors (add 10 to use the large domain solver to smooth over distortions in the mesh around clusters during morphing)

• 0 – use domains/morph volumes
• 1 - solve all as clusters
• 2 - solve all as stretchable
• 3 - solve seam and area connectors as stretchable and others as clusters
• 4 – as 3 above but treat equations as clusters
• 5 – as 3 above but do not apply special treatment to equations

onedrot: rotation of clusters (1d domains and morphconstraints), connectors, and equations

• 0 - no rotation
• 1 - tilting only (out-of-plane)
• 2 - spinning only (in-plane)
• 3 - full rotation

globalsystemid: ID of system used for morphing (use 0 for the global system)

globalmethod: method for passing down perturbations of global handles to the mesh

• 1 - direct (to nodes)
• 2 - hierarchical (to local handles)
• 3 - mixed method (to local handles or nodes directly if outside local domains)

globalsolve: method for solving global domains

• 1 - geometric
• 2 - spatial
• 3 - kriging

onedmethod: method used to determine the relationship between 1D domains and their surrounding domains

• 1 - independent
• 2 - secondary
• 3 - main
• 4 - cluster

savemorphlist: save morph list with HM binary format file

• 0 – do not save morph list with file
• 1 – save morph list with file

morphlibarch: if the morphing library is used and what the preferred computation method is for it

• 0 – Do not use morphing library (large domain solver)
• 1 – Use morphing library but only with single CPU
• 2 – Use morphing library with multiple CPUs
• 3 – Use morphing library and use GPU if available

bigdomainsolve: when the large domain solver runs

• 0 - manual
• 1 - on release
• 2 - real time

morphlibunfold: whether the large domain solver runs when the mesh gets folded

• 0 – never unfold
• 1 – ask to unfold
• 2 – always unfold

bigdomainlimit: smallest number of elements in domain for it to be considered a "large domain"

fesolver: type of solver to use for small domains

• 0 - influence coefficients
• 1 – linear static (OptiStruct)
• 2 - non-linear explicit (Radioss)
• 3 - kriging

fesolve: when the small domain solver runs

• 0 - manual
• 1 - on release
• 2 - real time (interactive)

fesolverlimit: number of elements at or below which a domain is considered a small domain

feuser: properties used when running linear static or nonlinear explicit small domain solvers

• 0 - automatically generate properties and materials
• 1 - use properties and materials in the model

qaautofix: invoke the large domain solver to unfold small domains which become folded during morphing

• 0 – off
• 1 – autofix on release
• 2 – autofix in real time (interactive)

kriging: when the kriging solver runs

• 0 - off
• 1 - manual
• 3 - automatic

krigtype: kriging will be applied to the following entities:

• 0 - none
• 1 - global domains
• 2 - local domains
• 3 - local and global domains
• 4 - morph volumes
• 5 - morph volumes and global domains
• 6 - morph volumes and local domains
• 7 - morph volumes, local, and global domains

krigdrift: drift value for kriging

• 0 - none
• 1 - constant
• 2 - linear
• 3 - quadratic
• 4 - cubic
• 5 - trigonometric

krigcovar: covariance value for kriging

• 0 - h
• 1 - h^2 * log(h)
• 2 - h^3
• 3 - exp(-1/x)

krignugget: use nugget value

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

krignugval: value of nugget used for kriging

ires: when to display fea results after morphing

• 0 - off
• 1 - manual
• 2 - on release
• 3 - real time

irescon: plotting style for fea results

• 0 - contour plot
• 1 - assign plot

iresmin: set the scale minimum value for fea results plotting

• 0 - find minimum value
• 1 - use value given in iresminval

iresminval: value of scale minimum used when plotting fea results

iresmax: set the scale maximum value for fea results plotting

• 0 - find maximum value
• 1 - use value given in iresmaxval

iresmaxval: value of scale maximum used when plotting fea results

irescomp: results component for fea results plotting

• 0 - magnitude
• 1 - x component
• 2 - y component
• 3 - z component

iresmesh: color of mesh during fea results plotting

• Range is 1 through 64 inclusive

iresmmres: minimum/maximum title plotting during fea results plotting

• 0 - do not plot minimum and maximum titles
• 1 - plot minimum and maximum titles

iresplinfo: info title plotting during fea results plotting

• 0 - do not plot info titles
• 1 - plot info titles

iressolver: solver used for fea results plotting

• 1 - linear static
• 2 - nonlinear explicit
• 3 - stamping 1-step
• 4 - stamping incremental

iresstmpx: x component of the stamping direction for the 1-step solver

iresstmpy: y component of the stamping direction for the 1-step solver

iresstmpz: z component of the stamping direction for the 1-step solver

partitionmethod: algorithm used for partitioning 2D domains which are at least 33%

• 0 - element based
• 1 - node based

partitionmethodtria: algorithm used for partitioning 2D domains which are at least 67% trias

• 0 - element based
• 1 - node based

domainangle: break angle, in degrees, for determining partition lines

partitionorder:

• 1 - divide when angle exceeds the domainangle
• 2 - divide when angle exceeds the domainangle and when the angle between elements changes more than the curvetolerance

curvetolerance: the tolerance value (in degrees) for curvature changes which determine partition lines

partitionusegeometry: partition along surface edges of associated geometry

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

partitionaddgeometry: merge partitioned domains and those created from geometry (where applicable)

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

internalpart: partition faces inside solid meshes

• 0 - off
• 1 - on

value

The new value of the parameter.

Example

To update the current biasing style for handles to sinusoidal:

*morphupdateparameter biasstyle 1

Errors

if { [ catch {*morphupdateparameter...} ] } {
   # Handle error
}