W HyperXtrude® 2015 wprowadzono nowy interfejs z CADowskimi elemnetami dla HyperXtrude co stanowi wielki krok naprzód ukierunkowujący CAD na podejście oferujące szeroki wachlarz ułatwień adresowanych do konkretnych procesów produkcyjnych. Takie podejście automatyzuje i ukrywa etap generowania siatki i przygotowania danych, całkowicie spychając go do działania w tle. Dlatego użytkownicy mogą przeprowadzić analizę po utworzeniu modelu analitycznego bazującego bezpośrednio na geometrii CAD. W tej wersji, podczas symulacji wyciskania metali obsługwany jest stan ustalony.

Wyciskanie profili metalowych

• Speed and Performance: Now you can work with large models up to 4 million nodes on both Windows and Linux 64-bit platforms.
• Solver Accuracy: Improvements include cone prediction of profiles, especially for those with large variation in thicknesses.
• Bearing Optimization: This module determines the imbalance in material flow at the end of the bearing region instead of the exit to improve the accuracy of the bearing optimization.
• Mandrel Offset: In this release, you can mesh the model with the mandrel offset and the solver will account for this step in the computation. The advantage of including the mandrel offset is savings in time spent in CAD correction.
• Grain Size Computations: A new dynamic recrystallization grain size model (DRX) accounts for the dependency of grain size on strain, and temperature-corrected strain rate.
• Automatic Extraction of Flow Volume: A new one-click option extracts the negative volume for the tool assembly and greatly minimizes model preparation time.
• Automatic Billet Creation: This option lets you determine a billet center from a die surface or edge. Specify center coordinates and estimate the upset billet length from the specified data.
• One-Click Solid Editing: One-click editing lets you merge or connect solids with a shared, common surface at the interface of adjacent solids.
• Geometry Cleanup: Access HX-Geom Cleanup from the Geometry menu to remove edges and sliver surfaces. This option greatly minimizes model cleanup time.
• Specifying Billet Taper Data: With the Billet Taper option, you can specify three types of tapers in your analysis (Axial taper, radial taper, and lateral taper). You can specify the Axial Taper in up to five zones where temperature can vary linearly with different gradients.
• Starter Billet: Using the Billet Taper option, you can specify starter billets of different lengths and use a different ram speed for each billet. This data is relevant only for transient, multi-cycle analysis. You can specify up to 5 different initial cycles with varying billet length data. In addition, you can use different axial tapers for each of the initial cycles.
• Super Alloy Extrusion Using Glass Lubrication: The Extrusion Wizard now supports glass lubricated (with glass pad and glass powder coating) extrusion. Glass lubrication is often used with nickel, titanium, and steel alloy extrusion (requires a custom solver version).
• Fit Material: An improved Fit Material GUI in the HyperXtrude material database lets you specify material data interactively or via the DAT file.
• Improve Mesh: The Extrusion Wizard provides an option to improve the mesh quality by remeshing the solids based on initially generated mesh.
• Tool Deflection Analysis in User Units: The Tool Deflection Wizard now supports user units. For example, if you set up a model in British units, your results from OptiStruct will have displacements in inches and stresses in ksi.
• HX Job Manager: Added support for this feature lets you submit OptiStruct runs on remote machines.

Wytłaczanie profili z tworzyw

• Usprawnienia działania platformy: Now you can work with large models up to 4 million nodes on both Windows and Linux 64-bit platforms.
• Automatyczna ekstrakcja strugi płynącego w głowicy tworzywa: A new one-click option extracts the negative volume for the tool assembly and greatly minimizes model preparation time.
• Edycja bryłowa za pomocą pojedynczych kliknięć: The Merge option merges selected solids. The Connect option creates a shared common surface at the interface between adjacent selected solids.
• Ułatwienia czyszczenia geometrii: The new HX-Geom Cleanup option, accessed from the Geometry menu, lets you remove unwanted edges and sliver surfaces, and minimize model cleanup time.
• Kreator do produkcji opon: The Tire Extrusion Wizard is used to simulate the extrusion of tire treads. The model-setup feature lets you create geometry based on a given die configuration or user-specified solids. This feature includes support of multi-cut extrusion dies, specification of tread and die contours as symmetric or full contours, and automatic report-generation.
• Udoskonalone mesh'owanie: The Extrusion Wizard provides an option to improve mesh quality by remeshing the solids based on initially generated mesh.
• Kreator do analizy ugięcia narzędzia: Solve tool deflection analysis with OptiStruct. Second order elements are supported, as well as pressures and forces. Loads from a HyperXtrude analysis can be mapped. Contacts between die plates, temperature conditions and other boundary conditions are automatically created.