Hide Post

Inspire

by
Altair Inspire The Future of Simulation Driven Design frontpic

Inspire accelerates the creation, optimisation, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies through collaboration.

Accelerate Simulation-driven Design.

Applied early in the product development lifecycle, Inspire accelerates the creation, optimisation, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies through collaboration. Inspire's award-winning user experience for geometry creation and modification can be learned in just a few hours and delivers dependable Altair solver power: Structural analysis with the speed and accuracy of Altair SimSolid™ - as independently validated by NAFEMS - provides the ability to analyse large assemblies and complex parts. Dynamic motion simulation, including loads extraction, using the reliable multi-body systems analysis of Altair MotionSolve™. The industry standard for structural efficiency, topology optimisation by Altair OptiStruct™, for the generative design of practical, viable, and manufacturable geometry. Inspire enables both simulation analysts and designers to perform what-if studies faster, easier, and above all earlier, encouraging collaboration and reducing product time to market.

Reasons to choose Inspire

Create and Modify Designs with Ease

Create, modify, and defeature solid models quickly, use PolyNURBS to create free-form smooth geometry, and study multiple assembly configurations.

Inspire Creat Modify Designs with Ease

Optimise for Manufacturability

Experience an interactive engineering design environment for rapid design exploration and product creation, without the need to invest in new computer hardware.

Simulate at the Speed of Design

Extend your application scope by coupling EDEM with leading tools for other CAE disciplines – from Altair or third parties – including MBD, FEA, and CFD.

Key Features of Inspire

Geometry Creation and Simplification Create, modify, and de-feature solid models using Inspire’s modeling tools. Leverage the speed and accuracy of SimSolid to evaluate multiple variants.

Dynamic Motion Easily generate dynamic motion of complex mechanisms, automatically identifying contacts, joints, springs, and dampers.

Topology Optimisation Inspire offers a number of topology options including optimisation objectives, stress and displacement constraints, acceleration, gravity, and temperature loading conditions.

Design for Additive Manufacturing Design for additive manufacturing with overhang shape controls to help reduce overhangs to create more self-supporting structures.

Structural Analysis Investigate linear static and normal modes analysis on a model and visualise displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, tension and compression, von Mises stress, and major principal stress.

Assembly Configuration Create multiple assembly configurations which can then be used to evaluate various design scenarios and the resulting concepts.

Download these brochures for more information on how Altair Products could help solve your critical business issues:

Structures Brochure
Manufacturing Brochure
Request Quote
Electromagnetic AeroDefense

SimSolid

by
SimSolid

SimSolid is the game-changing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry.

Structural Analysis for Rapid Design Iterations.

By performing structural analyses on fully featured CAD assemblies within minutes, SimSolid is the game-changing simulation technology for designers, engineers, and analysts. It eliminates geometry preparation and meshing: the two most time-consuming, expertise-extensive, and error-prone tasks performed in a conventional structural simulation. Multiple design scenarios can be simulated quickly under real-life conditions. Early CAD models, in any common format, can be used. SimSolid tolerance of imprecise geometry means that, unlike CAD-embedded simulation tools, there is no need to simplify complex geometries before analysing designs. SimSolid supports all typical connections (bolt/nut, bonded, welds, rivets, sliding) and analysis of linear static, modal, thermal properties, along with more complex coupled, nonlinear, transient dynamic effects. Providing the simulation power to help quicker engineering decisions, it aids development of quality products faster to beat competitors to market.

Reasons to choose SimSolid

Eliminate Geometry Simplification

SimSolid’s unique technology totally eliminates geometry simplification and meshing: the two most time-consuming, expertise extensive and error-prone tasks done in traditional structural analysis.

SimSolid Eliminate Geometry

Analyse Complex and Large Assemblies

Conceived to analyse complex parts or large assemblies not practical with traditional FEA, SimSolid excels faced with ragged contact surfaces having both gaps and overlapping geometry.

SimSolid Analyze Complex and Large Assemblies

Get Results in Seconds to Minutes

SimSolid is fast, having solution times measured in seconds to minutes, typically, on a standard PC, enabling comparison between multiple design scenarios quickly and accurately.

SimSolid Get results in seconds to minutes

Key Features of SimSolid

Available Solutions
Linear statics, modal, stress linearisation, thermal, coupled thermal-stress, nonlinear statics (contact, material and geometrical), fatigue analysis, linear superpositioning, linear dynamics (time, frequency, and random response).

Materials
Isotropic, Elasto-plastic, Orthotropic, Rigid parts, and liquid bodies.

Supported Connections
Bonded, sliding, and separating with friction, bolts, virtual connectors, welds (spot, laser, and fillet), rivets, adhesives, joints, and bushing.

Boundary Conditions
Immovable, sliding, hinge, force, pressure, gravity, thermal, inertial loads, inertia relief, bolt/nut tightening, hydrostatic, bearing, volumetric expansion and shrinkage, distributed and remote mass, and remote loads.

CAD Connectivity
Reads all common CAD/PLM file formats including CATIA, NX, PTC/Creo, Inventor, Fusion 360, SOLIDWORKS, JT, STEP, VDA, Parasolid, ACIS, PLMXML, CGR, STL. Direct data integration to Onshape and Teamcenter.

Result Types
Contour plots with displacements, stress & strains, deformed shape animation, max/min labels, point probes, XY plots, reaction/contact forces, bolt/nut forces, spot weld forces, frequencies and mode shapes, modal participation factors, safety factors.

Download these brochures for more information on how Altair Products could help solve your critical business issues:

Structures Brochure
View SimSolid Webinar
Request Quote
Electromagnetic AeroDefense