Altair HyperWorks Resources - Videos, Presentations, Webinars, Tutorials, Case Studies and More

MapleSim Datasheet

Benefits and features of MapleSim.

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BOTTPOWER Designs Lightweight Bracket for Motorbike Learn More

BOTTPOWER Designs Lightweight Bracket for Motorbike

BOTT stands for “Battle of the Twins,” a racing category for motorbikes with two-cylinder four stroke engines.

Bottpower is a Spanish motorsport engineering company located in Valencia. They specialize in designing and building custom motorbikes for racing and street use. They design and build parts, systems, and prototypes for other companies.

A project challenge at Bottpower was to design a lightweight stay bracket for their motorbike that could withstand the main and aerodynamic loads. The goal was finding the optimal weight and stiffness ratio to reduce weight while ensuring safety measures. All of this had to be done quickly in order to arrive on time at Addit3D, Spain's most important 3D-print fair, to showcase the bike. The optimal design for aerodynamic loads was found using Altair software.

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Reduction of Moving Masses – Streamlined Design for Improved Engine Performance Learn More

Reduction of Moving Masses – Streamlined Design for Improved Engine Performance

To expand the rpm range of a motorcycle engine, a new type of rocker arm with lower inertia was needed at KTM. The new rocker arm was required to have the same, or better stiffness and deformation level as the previous design. KTM used Altair HyperWorks™ for nonlinear topology optimization and nonlinear structural analysis to develop the new rocker arm. Thanks to this, the component inertia could be reduced by 15 percent, component mass was reduced by 21 percent, and the stiffness increased by 14 percent which lead to an extension of the rotational speed by 150-200 rpm.

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Built for the Future - SOM Achieves Sustainability Objectives Through Innovative Design Learn More

Built for the Future - SOM Achieves Sustainability Objectives Through Innovative Design

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is a renowned global architectural, urban planning, and engineering firm. Known for some of the world’s most technically and environmentally advanced buildings, SOM applies creativity and emerging technologies to design buildings for the future.

SOM designed the new United States Courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles to be an open and transparent public space, while also constantly considering the materials used in the project and the project's environmental footprint. The structural design specialists at SOM used Altair OptiStruct to generate an ideal project plan that considered sustainable regulations and manufacturing constraints.

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Assuring Scalability: Altair Radioss™ Delivers Robust Results Quickly for Crash-Safe Vehicle Designs Learn More

Assuring Scalability: Altair Radioss™ Delivers Robust Results Quickly for Crash-Safe Vehicle Designs

In the race to deliver safe new vehicles, efficient and accurate simulation of structural performance under different crash scenarios is a key alternative costly physical testing. With growing model complexity, the demand for CPUs is increasing. To assure a fast job
turnaround time, HPC and solver scalability is critical. This article shows that by working together with market-leading hardware
developers to keep one step ahead of customer needs, Altair Radioss™ offers fast, efficient structural analysis irrespective of the
hardware the solver is running on: scalability is proven and assured.

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Altair Inspire – Altair SimSolid Analysis Learn More

Altair Inspire – Altair SimSolid Analysis

Tips and Tricks

You can now use SimSolid as your solver when running a structural analysis in Inspire. This gives you the ability to edit geometry, which was not possible in the stand-alone version of SimSolid, as well as yielding significantly faster results when running an analysis in Inspire. Linear static and normal modes analyses are supported when using the SimSolid solver, as well as all boundary conditions and results visualizations. SimSolid extends Inspire’s solver capacity and makes it much faster to analyze large assemblies and complex parts.

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Altair Inspire – Toolbelts Learn More

Altair Inspire – Toolbelts

Tips and Tricks

Inspire now has four toolbelts to help you quickly access the tools you need for geometry, structures, motion, and PolyNURBS. You can use the toolbelts with the default configuration of tools, or you can customize the toolbelts by adding and removing tools.

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Altair Inspire – Plot Manager Learn More

Altair Inspire – Plot Manager

Tips and Tricks

A new Plot Manager is now available which makes it easy for you to manually browse and plot motion results data, create cross plots (i.e. data vs. data), define pages in different layouts, and save the plots you've defined as a template for reuse.

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Altair Inspire – Pressure Mapping Learn More

Altair Inspire – Pressure Mapping

Tips and Tricks

Pressure Mapping: It is now possible to apply a non-uniform distributed pressure using an option in the Pressure tool’s micro dialog.

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Altair Inspire – Download Offline Help Learn More

Altair Inspire – Download Offline Help

Tips and Tricks

You can now download and install an offline help package from within the product by selecting File > Help > Download Offline Help.

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Altair HyperMesh – Mesh Controls Learn More

Altair HyperMesh – Mesh Controls

Tips and Tricks

The Mesh Controls browser allows the access of a majority of the supported meshing approaches (e.g. size and bias, surface deviation), an additional method called “feature based,” the assignment of meshing regions, the storage and management of meshing parameters all within a mesh controls tree. For many applications (e.g. structural and CFD) this streamlines the preprocessing and mesh management tasks.

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Going Off-Road with Michigan Baja Racing Learn More

Going Off-Road with Michigan Baja Racing

Michigan Baja Racing (MBR) is a collegiate race team in the North American Baja SAE intercollegiate competition. The team designs, builds, and tests a new single-seater off-road race car from scratch every year to compete against hundreds of other teams across the United States. The competition consists of a design presentation and other static events. The main dynamic events are acceleration, maneuverability, hill climb, suspension and traction (S&T), and a four-hour endurance race.

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Enabling EV Excellence – Simulation Helps Rimac Improve Structural Design of Innovative Hypercar Learn More

Enabling EV Excellence – Simulation Helps Rimac Improve Structural Design of Innovative Hypercar

Rimac Automobili’s main challenge has been to design a monocoque as a single carbon fiber part with an unprecedented size. Hence, in the development of the monocoque, the main topic to manage was the material, a lightweight, carbon fiber reinforced with epoxy resin. As this carbon fiber is an orthotropic and brittle material, its representation in a finite element (FE) material card is very difficult. To meet this challenge the company introduced Altair HyperWorks™ into their development process.

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Calculation Management for Electrical Engineers Learn More

Calculation Management for Electrical Engineers

Maple is a software tool that combines a powerful mathematics engine with an interface that makes it easy to manage your calculations, so you can treat them like the valuable assets they are. Learn how electrical engineers can benefit from Maple.

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Maximize the Value of your Calculation Efforts Learn More

Maximize the Value of your Calculation Efforts

Learn how using Maple for calculation management can help you: - Treat calculations as a valuable, structured asset - Enable the tracking, validation, and reuse of calculations - Prevent redundant calculation work, even across groups - Allow deployment of calculations and tools across an organization

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The Altair Enlighten Award 2020 - Winners & Highlights Webinar & Panel Discussion Learn More

The Altair Enlighten Award 2020 - Winners & Highlights Webinar & Panel Discussion

Are you an automotive lightweighting pioneer? Do you have a vehicle, module, system or technology that is driving down the weight of today’s vehicles, or could do so in the future? Are you interested in learning how to become the next lightweighting champion?

Meet the Winners! Industry pioneers Ferrari, csi entwicklungstechnik GmbH, ZF, and Material Science Corporation, winners of the 2019 Altair Enlighten Award, address evolving technology trends, lightweighting initiatives in industry and more, at the webinar and panel discussion on May 6, 2020.

The Altair Enlighten Award promotes innovation, and honors the greatest achievements in automotive vehicle weight saving. The award is presented in the following categories:

Full Vehicle - exceptional achievement in the lightweighting of an entire vehicle
Module - innovation in the lightweighting of a subsystem or component
Enabling Technology - any technology that enables lightweight innovation in a vehicle, such as a material or joining technology
The Future of Lightweighting – innovative ideas, processes, materials, and technologies that have significant potential to support lightweighting initiatives, but have yet to be leveraged on a production vehicle platform.

PATAC Learn More

PATAC

PATAC needed to develop an efficient CAE simulation management platform to accommodate
their changing needs and accelerate digital growth.

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How Whirlpool Evaluates and Validates Concepts in Minutes with Altair SimSolid Learn More

How Whirlpool Evaluates and Validates Concepts in Minutes with Altair SimSolid

In this webinar, Alexandre Luis Marangoni, Senior CAE Engineer at Whirlpool Corporation discusses how they validated SimSolid against FEA solver results, then implemented the tool into their concept design processes.
SimSolid is used at Whirlpool to quickly evaluate concept feasibility, answer critical design questions, and deliver designs to project teams faster than ever before.

Altair will demonstrate additional powerful functionality of SimSolid, preview the upcoming SimSolid 2020 release, and introduce an exciting new integration with Altair Inspire. Inspire's award winning user experience for geometry creation and modification can be learned in just a few hours, and now delivers SimSolid's speed and accuracy for structural analysis. For users without access to CAD software, Inspire and SimSolid combine to enable interactive geometry modification while analyzing large assemblies and complex parts, all within one common user interface.

Stanley Black & Decker Case Study Learn More

Stanley Black & Decker Case Study

Stanley Black & Decker chose Altair’s HyperWorks Unlimited to optimize their CAE processes for power tool design, enabling them to explore concepts more deeply, reduce cycle times and make better decisions faster.

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Altair SimLab - Unit System Learn More

Altair SimLab - Unit System

#1416 Tips and Tricks

SimLab 2019.3 version introduces unit system which will allow users to work in a unit system they desire. The introduction of unit system should not disrupt current users from what they are currently used to. The following rules apply for this version.

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Altair SimLab - Quick Drop Test Setup Learn More

Altair SimLab - Quick Drop Test Setup

#1417 Tips and Tricks

Quick setup - Drop impact test parameters:
It will automatically create boundary conditions based on user inputs and user can modify if needed.
• Initial velocity will be created based on height, drop direction and gravity.
• Rigid wall creation based on direction of impact.
• Output request and settings based on solution time after impact.

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Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance Uses Altair SimSolid to Bring Vehicles Chassis Faster onto the Road Learn More

Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance Uses Altair SimSolid to Bring Vehicles Chassis Faster onto the Road

Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance is a French-Japanese strategic partnership between the automobile manufacturers Renault (based in France), Nissan (based in Japan) and Mitsubishi Motors (based in Japan). Today, the automotive group has 122 manufacturing plants worldwide with nearly 450,000 employees controlling ten major brands: Renault, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Infiniti, Renault Samsung, Dacia, Alpine, Datsun, Venucia, and Lada. The ambition of the alliance is to offer autonomous drive, connectivity features, and services on a wide range of affordable vehicles. As part of the Renault Chassis Le Mans plant, which is building car-to-ground connecting components for the Renault Group and for the Alliance, the CTC Chassis Technical Center is a CAD engineering center where 350 engineers and technicians are working with a focus on testing and validation. Renault has been using SimSolid to perform simulations to develop lighter chassis faster.

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Taking Off with Simulation Learn More

Taking Off with Simulation

New airborne solutions are being developed to accommodate one or more persons for air travel. Explorations including large drones, small helicopters, airplanes, and flying cars will enable companies to respond to the demand for Personal Air Mobility (PAM). The team at Talaria was founded by students at the Delft University of Technology. The idea for Talaria’s Individual Air Mobility project began at the end of 2017. Founder Philipp Essle heard about the Boeing GoFly competition which rewarded the best designs for a one-person aircraft. Talaria’s mission is to develop an electrically driven PAM that can take-off and land vertically in urban environments. Talaria is using Altair Inspire to check whether material and weight could be reduced through topology optimization. This approach resulted in a significant 1.5-kilogram weight reduction of the rotor hubs.

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Efficiently Simulating and Optimising Antenna Placement in Virtual Test Scenarios Learn More

Efficiently Simulating and Optimising Antenna Placement in Virtual Test Scenarios

In this practical workshop we will present both the theory and background of the numerical techniques used, as well as presenting application examples and real-world cases studies on how such a process is used in the industry today. It will be a combination of presentation and demonstration of the best insight in the process.

Due to increasing complexity and a higher demand for connectivity for all sorts of products, physical measurements are more and more enhanced by virtual testing, not only on component level but also for full platforms like vehicles, aircrafts, etc. in their environment. Simulation in the design stage is crucial for successful deployment.

This workshop demonstrates the development process, from antenna evaluation to placing the antenna concepts on a platform and performing the virtual test drive / flight analysis also using optimization to increase the performance of the system. The numerical methods applied for such types of analysis,like full wave solutions for the antenna design and placement, as well as different wave propagation models like empirical models or dominant path solutions will also be discussed in more detail.

Application examples from the automotive and aerospace domain will show time variant results for antenna systems on moving objects e.g. also for MIMO scenarios.

Extended Interview: Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance Learn More

Extended Interview: Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance

An extended interview with Royal Enfield, the world's oldest motorcycle brand in continuous production, as they discuss the deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance. Rod Giles gives insight into the company's existing HPC infrastructure and explains why the fully managed Altair Applicance made sense for them.

Using HyperStudy with a remote HPC infraestructure via Altair Access. Learn More

Using HyperStudy with a remote HPC infraestructure via Altair Access.

Altair HyperStudy is a design exploration tool that manages simulation model variability, run submission and extracts simulation responses.
HyperStudy allows to seamlessly perform Design of experiments, generate metamodels and perform optimizations and reliability studies.
However, some simulations are computationally expensive to run in local machines. Altair Access can assist to submit the jobs to a remote HPC server seamlessly, with the reduced simulation time and increased compliance with IT policies.

Solve Your EMC/EMI Problems Involving Cables Learn More

Solve Your EMC/EMI Problems Involving Cables

Many problems of electromagnetic compatibility and interference involve cables, which either radiate through imperfect shields and cause coupling into other cables, devices or antennas, or which receive (irradiation) external electromagnetic fields (radiated from antennas or leaked through other devices) and then cause disturbance voltages and currents potentially resulting in a malfunctioning system. Altair offers a comprehensive combined electromagnetic field and cable solution using the Multiconductor Transmission Line (MTL) method, as well as a hybrid solution combining MTL with Method of Moments (MoM+MTL), to solve the EMC/EMI problems involving cables. This webinar covers the cable analysis solution from Altair with a detailed overview of the methodology with examples.

Inspire 2019 Introduction Learn More

Inspire 2019 Introduction

In this course, you will have the opportunity to learn about the Inspire 2019 interface along with tools and workflows contained within Inspire. Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows within Inspire. You will also have the opportunity to watch and perform hands-on exercises within each module.

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Accelerate Decision Making with GPUs Learn More

Accelerate Decision Making with GPUs

Harnessing the computational capabilities of the graphics processing unit (GPU) is one of the cornerstones of Altair's mission to empower its customers. First and foremost, utilizing GPUs to accelerate numerical simulation delivers significant increases in speed and therefore, throughput. That means more opportunities to explore and fine-tune designs, faster decision-making based on more accurate results, and consequently the prospect of considerable reductions in time to market. In addition, creativity is enhanced, with more vivid, realistic and accurate rendering and visualization put within easier reach.

Altair SimLab – CAD Shared Faces Learn More

Altair SimLab – CAD Shared Faces

Tips and Tricks

This tool will help to show the shared faces in connected CAD body. This feature is supported only for Parasolid model imported with “Save geometry in database”.

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Altair SimLab – Proximity Mesh Control Learn More

Altair SimLab – Proximity Mesh Control

Proximity: Automatic mesh refinement will happen on surfaces that are within proximity distance. This will be useful in CFD, Electronics applications etc.

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Altair SimLab – Extract Cavity Learn More

Altair SimLab – Extract Cavity

Extract cavity option to extract the cavity from the selected bodies by defining the node. To capture the fluid geometry better, turn on ‘Preserve all feature lines’ in Advanced options. It would be useful in CFD to extract the fluid domain.

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Attaining Nonlinear and Multiphysics Mastery for SMBs with SimLab and OptiStruct Learn More

Attaining Nonlinear and Multiphysics Mastery for SMBs with SimLab and OptiStruct

A growing number of companies aspire to perform multiphysics, but each added analysis tool introduces new complexity to a development process. Model translation, remeshing, design modification – these tasks offer no added value and increase the likelihood of error. Altair SimLab enables users to model and solve multiple physics, including nonlinear analysis, within one unified platform. Each analysis runs from one master model, allowing you to spend less time prepping and more time solving. Join the webinar to see these powerful workflows in action.

In this webinar, we will demo the design of a smart speaker with an emphasis on nonlinear analysis, multiphysics, and improving perceived sound with vibro-acoustic simulation.

Get One Step Ahead of 5G With Wireless Network Planning and Performance Analysis Learn More

Get One Step Ahead of 5G With Wireless Network Planning and Performance Analysis

5G is the next evolution of communication networks. With an exponential increase in consumer demands for high-speed data, the existing technologies can only sustain this demand for the next few years. We need a new technology with new capabilities, improved downloading and uploading speeds, and that can enable companies to control devices remotely in much more efficient and faster way than currently possible. This webinar presents Altair’s advanced computational tools for the propagation analysis and network planning of the emerging 5G technologies.

Engineer's Guide to Developing an Additive Manufacturing Strategy Learn More

Engineer's Guide to Developing an Additive Manufacturing Strategy

This guide walks you through the decision-making process of taking additive manufacturing to production, answering some of the most important questions related to taking additive manufacturing to production

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Generative Design Gallery Learn More

Generative Design Gallery

Watch the video to learn how Altair enables designs for production, moving additive manufacturing from an advanced capability to a production capacity with the power of simulation.

Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance Learn More

Royal Enfield Discuss the Deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance

Royal Enfield, the world's oldest motorcycle brand in continuous production, discuss the deployment of the Altair HyperWorks Unlimited Appliance. Rod Giles gives insight into the company's existing HPC infrastructure and explains why the fully managed Altair Applicance made sense for them.

SimSolid 2019.5 Introduction Learn More

SimSolid 2019.5 Introduction

In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about the capabilities contained within SimSolid. Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows within SimSolid. You will also have the opportunity to watch and perform hands on exercises throughout the modules.

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HyperMesh Quickstart v2019 Learn More

HyperMesh Quickstart v2019

The purpose of this self paced course is to introduce HyperMesh to new users of the software. Most sections will use the See It, Do It methodology to cover the concepts. See It allows you to watch a video demonstration of the exercise covered in the section. Do It consists of a written exercise and model that can be opened in HyperMesh which allows you to perform the exercise on your own. Some sections will also contain interactive guides to provide a detailed description of the different options contained within a panel or browser.

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HyperView & HyperGraph Introduction v2019 Learn More

HyperView & HyperGraph Introduction v2019

In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about HyperView and HyperGraph in V2019. Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows within HyperView and HyperGraph. You will also have the opportunity to watch demonstrations and perform hands on exercises throughout the modules.

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HyperWorks for Aerospace Applications v2019 Learn More

HyperWorks for Aerospace Applications v2019

In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about the tools available in HyperWorks for aerospace workflows. Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows for use in the aerospace industry. You will also have the opportunity to watch demonstrations and perform hands on exercises throughout the modules.

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Stop Using Excel Before You Make an Expensive Error! Learn More

Stop Using Excel Before You Make an Expensive Error!

An engineer has an ethical duty to actively identify and minimize sources of risk. However, one significant source of risk is often ignored. That’s Microsoft Excel – a surprisingly common tool for engineering calculations. This webinar explores why Excel is such a popular calculation tool, and, on the flip-side, why you should stop using Excel for anything more than bookkeeping.

Using your CAD in MapleSim Learn More

Using your CAD in MapleSim

See how to import and work with your CAD model in MapleSim.

Accelerating Complex Linear and Nonlinear Analysis Processes from HyperMesh to OptiStruct Learn More

Accelerating Complex Linear and Nonlinear Analysis Processes from HyperMesh to OptiStruct

Supported by the streamlined, intuitive workflows in HyperMesh, running nonlinear analysis in OptiStruct is easier and more powerful than ever. Nonlinear explicit analysis is now supported, enabling simulation of drop tests, impact analysis, and more. Check out this webinar to see how Altair’s unified modeling and simulation platform can eliminate tedious meshing tasks and accelerate your nonlinear analysis processes.

In this webinar, we'll demo 5 different car door abuse use-cases, solving using linear dynamics, nonlinear quasi-static implicit, and nonlinear explicit dynamics analysis in OptiStruct.

Accurate and Efficient Simulation of Laminated Composites Learn More

Accurate and Efficient Simulation of Laminated Composites

This webinar presents a complete composites workflow for all industries, the simulation-driven design workflow allows for an efficient process that enables time and money reduction.

Guide to Accelerating e-Mobility to Realization Learn More

Guide to Accelerating e-Mobility to Realization

The electric mobility revolution is ready to go mainstream. OEMs, suppliers, and emerging vehicle manufacturers are investing billions to develop innovative electric vehicles and optimize development and production processes to deliver e-mobility to the masses.

For companies to realize their goals of achieving mass adoption and profitability, we see simulation technology as the cornerstone of any e-mobility strategy. Whether updating existing vehicle design processes to go electric or developing a new program from the ground up, it can be challenging to identify the technology required and ensure these tools work harmoniously to model the complexities of the vehicle’s interconnected systems.

In this guide, we set out to help electric vehicles manufacturers build a comprehensive technology stack, develop a sustainable design process, and deploy manufacturing operations that scale to meet growing demand.

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Electric Motors Multidisciplinary Optimization Platform Learn More

Electric Motors Multidisciplinary Optimization Platform

The design of a high-performance e-Motor is a complex undertaking. Engineers have conflicting constraints to consider including efficiency, temperature, weight, size and cost. To explore more ideas, better understand their designs and improve performance, Altair HyperWorks™ has a workflow to guide motor designers through an efficient process of Simulation-Driven Design. This analysis and optimization solution supports multi-disciplinary teamwork and reduces design times.

Altair PollEx Datasheet Learn More

Altair PollEx Datasheet

Altair PollEx is a PCB-level Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software suite covering design review, analysis and manufacturing. It significantly reduces development cycles while providing a common communication application between schematic engineers, PCB designers, CAE analysts, and manufacturing engineers.

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Introduction to Altair Feko Component Library Learn More

Introduction to Altair Feko Component Library

The new Feko component library contains a set of antenna models that are ready for simulation. The library can be searched easily by keywords, and a summary is included for each component. The versatile antenna models can be scaled to frequency, are preconfigured with different solver options and mesh settings, and include options for ground plane modeling and simulation settings. The library also contains a number of generic platform models, such as aircraft, that are added to a model as geometry onto which antennas can be mounted.

HyperStudy – New Definition Concept Learn More

HyperStudy – New Definition Concept

Every approach now contains a unique definition of the models, variables, and responses for that approach. These “Definitions” streamline the process of making modifications between approaches. This new framework provides more freedom to explore diverse and multi-disciplinary studies in a single session.

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HyperStudy – Measure the Difference Between Curves Learn More

HyperStudy – Measure the Difference Between Curves

Area is a new data source tool that defines a metric to measure the difference between two curves. By minimizing this metric in an optimization, it is simple to tune simulation models to match targets.

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HyperStudy – Submit Simulations to Altair PBS Works Learn More

HyperStudy – Submit Simulations to Altair PBS Works

HyperStudy has new infrastructure to seamlessly interact with the Altair Access high performance computing platform. This connection handles the upload, submission, and download of the simulation files. Easy access to scalable computing enables design exploration for larger problems.

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HyperStudy – Compare Fit and Solver Results Learn More

HyperStudy – Compare Fit and Solver Results

Compare fit and solver results in HyperStudy. Verification - This approach compares two data sets in a side by side comparison.

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HyperStudy – Extract Responses from Spreadsheets Learn More

HyperStudy – Extract Responses from Spreadsheets

Spreadsheet is a new data source tool that can be used identify data in a spreadsheet (*xls or *xlsx) by specifying the sheet name and cell ranges. It is now simple to extract results from software that produces output spreadsheets.

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What Customers Are Saying About SimSolid Learn More

What Customers Are Saying About SimSolid

Users from CNH Industrial, Multimatic, and Plastic Omnium discuss the impact of Altair SimSolid on their work.

Norwood Sawmills Case Study Learn More

Norwood Sawmills Case Study

In the early 1990s, Peter Dale designed and built his own portable sawmill to help with the construction of a new log cabin. Recognizing a gap in the commercial market, he promptly founded Norwood Sawmills. More than twenty-five years later, it’s a thriving company that continues to specialize in rugged sawmills for customers such as builders, landowners, and furniture makers. Reflecting the company’s roots, Norwood Sawmills has established an enviable reputation for innovative, high-quality product design, and currently holds over 50 patents. To date, the company has produced in excess of 35,000 sawmills at its factories in Canada and the USA, supplying the equipment in flat-pack format to customers in more than 100 different countries.

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Optimize Your Antenna Design Through Machine Learning Learn More

Optimize Your Antenna Design Through Machine Learning

Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. As the antennas are becoming more and more complex each day, antenna designers can take advantage of machine learning to generate mathematical models for their physical antenna designs and perform fast and intelligent optimization on these mathematical models. This webinar presents a process of fast and intelligent optimization by adopting both the Design of Experiments (DOE) and machine learning.

Rapid Structural Evaluation of Complex Electronics Assemblies Learn More

Rapid Structural Evaluation of Complex Electronics Assemblies

One of the biggest challenges in the consumer electronics industry is reducing the time-to-market given the highly competitive landscape. Given the lack of time, companies are becoming more and more dependent on virtual simulations rather than physical prototyping to inform the design process. However, performing virtual simulations on large complicated assemblies can also be a tedious and time-consuming process due to geometry simplification and meshing. Additionally, rapid changes in material, geometry, and assemblies complicate the model building process and make it difficult to generate answers comparing various design iterations.

This webinar seeks to introduce a CAD-based simulation process that drastically reduce the time it takes to make informed design decisions on large complicated electronic components. The methods presented in this webinar enable both the design and engineering teams to rapidly explore the performance of large electronic assemblies in seconds as opposed to hours.

Altair HyperStudy Product Overview Learn More

Altair HyperStudy Product Overview

HyperStudy is a multi-disciplinary design exploration software helping engineers to improve their designs. By using an automatic processes combining state-of-the-art mathematical methods, predictive modeling and datamining, HyperStudy explores the design space smartly and efficiently.

Ship Foundation Design using DDAM-coupled Optimization Methods Learn More

Ship Foundation Design using DDAM-coupled Optimization Methods

This paper presents a case study of a ship foundation optimized for DDAM early in the design phase to validate and optimize the
structural integrity of a ship foundation subject to underwater shock conditions.

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Webinar: How Brompton Bicycle Makes Design Decisions in Seconds with Altair SimSolid Learn More

Webinar: How Brompton Bicycle Makes Design Decisions in Seconds with Altair SimSolid

Together with Altair, Brompton Bicycle will give you insight into its experiences of utilizing Altair SimSolid, a revolutionary structural analysis solution developed specifically for design engineers. During the 60 minute session, Jonathan Heath, Lead Mechanical Engineer at Brompton Bicycle, demonstrates live how SimSolid is enabling their design and engineering teams to rapidly explore the performance of its new product gaining accurate feedback on whether parts and assemblies are fit for purpose in just a few seconds.

Taking into Account Magnet Demagnetization During Solving Process in Flux Learn More

Taking into Account Magnet Demagnetization During Solving Process in Flux

Taking magnet demagnetization phenomena into account during solving process offers more accuracy on typical quantities such as motor torque or electromotive force and new analysis like the evolution of the remanent flux density.

Flux Dedicated e-Motor Environment with Automated Tests Learn More

Flux Dedicated e-Motor Environment with Automated Tests

Discover the new Flux e-Machine Toolbox (FeMT) dedicated environment with automated tests.

InnAccel Leverages Altair AcuSolve for Developing Oral Hygiene Management System Learn More

InnAccel Leverages Altair AcuSolve for Developing Oral Hygiene Management System

A . Vijayrajan Founder and Chief Technical Officer, InnAccel talks of how simulation brings design differentiation in the medical device industry. His team speaks of the use of Altair AcuSolve solution for determining the pressure drop in the manifold of a medical device design used for oral hygiene in ICUs.

InnAccel Leverages Altair OptiStruct for Validating Fetal Monitoring System Learn More

InnAccel Leverages Altair OptiStruct for Validating Fetal Monitoring System

A . Vijayrajan Founder and Chief Technical Officer, InnAccel talks of how simulation brings design differentiation in the medical device industry. His team speaks of the use of Altair OptiStruct non-linear solution for designing snap fit of the device carrying case.

InnAccel Leverages Altair MotionSolve to Evaluate Nasal Body Removal Mechanism Learn More

InnAccel Leverages Altair MotionSolve to Evaluate Nasal Body Removal Mechanism

A . Vijayrajan Founder and Chief Technical Officer, InnAccel talks of how simulation brings design differentiation in the medical device industry. His team speaks of the use of Altair MotionSolve solution for designing a medical device mechanism for removal of nasal foreign body in children.

OptiStruct – Imperfection Learn More

OptiStruct – Imperfection

Tips and Tricks #1403: OptiStruct – Imperfection

Geometric imperfection can be applied to stability sensitive structures which have difficulties in being solved, because of local or global buckling.Imperfection helps to transform the bifurcation problem into a limit point problem.

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OptiStruct – PSEUDO Damage Calculation Learn More

OptiStruct – PSEUDO Damage Calculation

Tips and Tricks #1404: OptiStruct – PSEUDO Damage Calculation

PSEUDO damage calculation
• Speedup the fatigue calculation dramatically.
• Effective if the small damaged elements are not of concern.
• SN/EN and Uni-axial/Multi-axial base metal fatigue with static subcase
• Optimization supported.

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OptiStruct – Membranes in LGDISP & Plasticity Learn More

OptiStruct – Membranes in LGDISP & Plasticity

Tips and Tricks #1405: OptiStruct – Membranes in LGDISP & Plasticity

Membranes are supported now for LGDISP NLSTAT analysis.For Nonlinear materials, plasticity is supported for membranes– both SMDISP and LGDISP.Both 1st order and 2nd order elements are supported for SMDISP and LGDISP NLSTAT.Stress on membranes should be comparable (not exact) to surface stresses on solids (which can be obtained with specifying ISOP option as INT0 in PSOLID, and output stress at GAUSS location).

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OptiStruct – New Beam Formulation Learn More

OptiStruct – New Beam Formulation

Tips and Tricks #1406: OptiStruct – New Beam Formulation

New Beam Formulation (Timoshenko)
• Timoshenko beam theory formulation is introduced with PARAM,BEAMALT,YES for CBAR/CBEAM.Default is NO.
• With this formulation turned on, the shear deformation of the beam will be more accurate and rotary inertia will alsobe added. For the maximum accuracy, it is recommended to use PARAM,COUPMASS,YES.

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OptiStruct – CGAP Force Output Includes Preload Learn More

OptiStruct – CGAP Force Output Includes Preload

Tips and Tricks #1407: OptiStruct – CGAP Force Output Includes Preload

CGAP Force Output Includes Preload
• Preload force ‘F0’ is included in the CGAP element force output.
• Preload force ‘F0’ is supported for Nonlinear static analysis (SMDISP/LGDISP), and ignored in linear analysis.
• The output is available in *.h3d and/or *.op2. & with OPTI forces are written to a .force file.
• With NLOUT request, incremental CGAP force output is available in *.h3d and .force file.
• Currently ‘on the fly’ CGAP force output in *.impl.h3d file is not available.

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Designer Oriented Software - Is it Accurate? Learn More

Designer Oriented Software - Is it Accurate?

Ian Symington of NAFEMS investigates the accuracy of Altair SimSolid through a series of eight analysis benchmarks.

Article originally published in Benchmark Magazine by NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Community. Find out more at nafems.org.

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Fabric & Altair SimSolid Learn More

Fabric & Altair SimSolid

Fabric, the robotic micro-fulfillment centers Company, Leav Oz-Ari, discuss the challenges its engineering team meet and how the move to Altair SimSolid has cut its simulation time from hours to a just few minutes.

Faster, More Efficient Modeling With Next-Gen HyperMesh Learn More

Faster, More Efficient Modeling With Next-Gen HyperMesh

The next generation HyperWorks experience was created to enable teams to move from physics to physics, domain to domain or even create reports without ever leaving their simulation model. Every tool in the suite delivers a solution-specific workflow with a meticulously designed and discoverable user-interface, differentiated for each user profile, but still familiar across the toolset.

Altair started delivering on this vision with the initial release of Inspire and has continued to bring more and more functionality to its customers with each release. Now, the next generation HyperMesh provides a modern environment for meshing, modeling, and morphing with no loss of existing functionality for long-term customers.

Learn about the reimagining of Altair HyperMesh and how your product development can benefit today.

The presentation will showcase:
-Brand new workflows for geometry recreation and editing
-Midmeshing and interactive batch meshing
-Free direct morphing
-Parts and reps management
-Concept design iteration

SimSolid 2019.4 Introduction Learn More

SimSolid 2019.4 Introduction

In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about the capabilities contained within SimSolid. Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows within SimSolid. You will also have the opportunity to watch and perform hands on exercises throughout the modules.

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Altair Feko Product Overview Learn More

Altair Feko Product Overview

Altair Feko is a comprehensive computational electromagnetics (CEM) code used widely in the telecommunications, automobile, space and defense industries.

Virtual Design and Testing of a Medical Autoinjector, Project Overview Learn More

Virtual Design and Testing of a Medical Autoinjector, Project Overview

Nolato specializes in polymer-based product design and manufacturing to virtually design a device to automatically inject medicines, such as insulin for diabetic patients. Within this presentation different aspects of the product design cycle are considered, including co-simulations of the device operation during the actual injection process, misuse in case of forceful bending or opening of the loading tray, and drop tests of the autoinjector. Based on Altair’s optimization technology, alternatives for the rib structure of the casing are investigated. To assure manufacturability, molding and assembly simulations are performed to identify and mitigate problems likely to occur throughout the process.

Inspire Print3D Product Overview Learn More

Inspire Print3D Product Overview

Altair Inspire Print3D is an additive manufacturing (AM) product development and process simulation solution that enables teams to enhance part quality and minimize lead time and AM costs by reducing material usage, print time and post-processing. It enables Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), providing a fast and accurate toolset for the design and process simulation of selective laser melting (SLM) parts.

Altair's Vision for Conceptual Design in Automotive Learn More

Altair's Vision for Conceptual Design in Automotive

Imagine being able to bridge the gap between aerodynamics and the design studio to understand the performance of vehicle design ideas as early as the sketch pad, using the skills and resources you already have in-house.

In this two-minute video Paul Steward discusses Altair’s vision for collaboration between the design studio and aerodynamics.

Altair HPC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Learn More

Altair HPC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

During his presentation, Wolfgang Dreyer, Senior Principal Product Manager HPC at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure reveales how the use of a cloud computing can benefit your product development teams; providing access to increased engineering capability and delivering unlimited compute capacity to aid the creation of your next product. He also discusses the perceived business barriers associated with cloud, such as security and compliance, and explain how Oracle’s cloud infrastructure has overcome these traditional hurdles

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Automatic Refinement in the Next Generation HyperWorks Learn More

Automatic Refinement in the Next Generation HyperWorks

Use the tool to refine elements as quads based on a given refinement size.

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HyperWorks Next Generation – Find and Fill Cavities Learn More

HyperWorks Next Generation – Find and Fill Cavities

Find and Fill Cavities: Use the Plug tool to find and fill cavities. The Plug tool can also be used to remove protrusions, holes, and complex features.

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HyperWorks Next Generation – Remove Small Features Learn More

HyperWorks Next Generation – Remove Small Features

Defeature – Small Features tool: The Small Features tool finds and deletes small solids and deletes or suppresses sliver surfaces. The Small Features tool is available within the Defeature tool.

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HyperWorks Next Generation – Replicate Mesh Learn More

HyperWorks Next Generation – Replicate Mesh

Replicate Mesh - Use the tool to replicate a mesh from one location to another, with options to keep the original mesh, as well as to replicate into multiple copies. The replicated elements replace the original elements, maintaining relevant information like properties, thicknesses, and other solver attributes.

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HyperWorks Next Generation – Tools Finder Learn More

HyperWorks Next Generation – Tools Finder

The purpose of this tool is to help you find tools that you used in Legacy HyperMesh by selecting the menu or panel from the classic interface to be shown the location in the new HyperWorks interface.

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Altair Inspire Cast – Filters for Gravity Casting Learn More

Altair Inspire Cast – Filters for Gravity Casting

Filter is one of the crucial components of filling system in Castings used for multiple purpose as:
• Maintain metal flow at gate.
• Avoid turbulent behavior of liquid metal during filling.
• Retain impurities, foam and slag from the metal.
• To avoid sudden impact of metal in the cavity due to head height.

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Altair Radioss – Automatic Dynamic Relaxation Learn More

Altair Radioss – Automatic Dynamic Relaxation

Automatic dynamic relaxation in Radioss.

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Altair OptiStruct – Viscoelastic Material Learn More

Altair OptiStruct – Viscoelastic Material

The behavior of Viscoelastic materials is intermediate between the idealized behavior of elastic solids and viscous liquids. The time domain Viscoelastic material in OptiStruct is represented by the generalized Maxwell model and is defined by a Prony series expansion.

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Altair OptiStruct – Creep Material Learn More

Altair OptiStruct – Creep Material

Creep is the permanent time dependent deformation occurring in structures, can be defined using MATVP bulk card entry. It is based on power-law model and can be used in its ‘time hardening’ form or in the corresponding ‘strain hardening’ form.

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Altair OptiStruct – Manufacturing Constraints Support for Multiple-Material Topology Optimization Learn More

Altair OptiStruct – Manufacturing Constraints Support for Multiple-Material Topology Optimization

All manufacturing constraints are supported for Multiple Materials Topology optimization (MMAT) from v2019.1.Different manufacturing constraints could be applied to different candidate materials in the same design domain. The original material defined by property will not be taken as candidate material by default. OptiStruct will error out if there is only one candidate material defined for the same design domain in MMAT.The element density result is available for all candidate materials in v2019.1.

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Webinar: Lead-Time Reduction at Renault with Altair SimSolid Learn More

Webinar: Lead-Time Reduction at Renault with Altair SimSolid

Renault presents how they've adopted SimSolid to significantly speed up design time and gain deep design insights upfront in the design process.

Find out how SimSolid is used to run multiple structural simulation iterations directly on their CAD geometry in minutes with amazing accuracy.

Airbus Helicopters Relies on Simulation to Develop Antennas Quickly and Efficiently Learn More

Airbus Helicopters Relies on Simulation to Develop Antennas Quickly and Efficiently

Hervé Dutruc, antenna and communication expert at Airbus Helicopters, highlights some of the challenges the company faces for antenna design and installation definition. Airbus Helicopters relies on Altair Feko simulations to support the increased of use of composite materials and growing frequency for communication systems.

Introducing Altair EDEM Learn More

Introducing Altair EDEM

Altair's acquisition of DEM Solutions allows customers to design and develop power machinery while simultaneously optimizing how this equipment processes and handles bulk materials. EDEM's Discrete Element Method tool interfaces with Altair's leading physics applications to extend companies ability to simulate complex products as systems-of-systems.

With EDEM, users will be able to simulate the interaction between materials such as pellets, tablets, powders, coal, soil, and rocks with machinery. Combining DEM with Altair's applications for model-based development, structural analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and multi-body dynamics gives users unparalleled insight into the performance of their complex products in use.

Altair Inspire Print3D Datasheet Learn More

Altair Inspire Print3D Datasheet

Altair Inspire Print3D is an additive manufacturing (AM) product development and process simulation solution that enables teams to enhance part quality and minimize lead time and AM costs by reducing material usage, print time and post-processing. It provides a fast and accurate toolset for the design and process simulation of selective laser melting (SLM) parts.

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Development of A new vehicle front sub-frame using Altair Inspire topology optimization Learn More

Development of A new vehicle front sub-frame using Altair Inspire topology optimization

Presentation by Edan Lazerson, CAE Engineer, Plasan.

The Stormrider is a new vehicle which was designed from scratch and developed by Plasan. Altair Inspire was used for Topology optimization In order to find the ""best"" design for the vehicle front sub frame. The available volume (design space), 5 different load cases and target mass were specified and the optimization software calculated geometry to maximize stiffness. The optimization results were complex to manufacture with traditional technologies; the simulation and design teams collaborated on designing a manufacturable front sub frame assembly. The new design was simulated to ensure it will withstand all the required loads. The front sub frame was implemented and tested on the prototype vehicle. The optimized front sub frame proved mechanically sound, while satisfying the mass and geometrical requirements. The early stage optimization reduced the development time, by creating a valid geometry however, the topology to manufacturable design process is not trivial. In this presentation, we will present the mentioned development stages and compare the test results to the simulation predictions.

Presentation at the ATCx in Israel, Netanya on October 30, 2019.

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The Increased Importance of BIW & Powertrain Integration in Electric Vehicle Development Learn More

The Increased Importance of BIW & Powertrain Integration in Electric Vehicle Development

Jamie Buchanan, UK Technical Director at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. Global Review of the EV Architecture. Integration Opportunities (e.g. Battery System Packaging, BIW / Battery Tray Integration)

The Multi Physics Optimization of an e-Motor Rotor Learn More

The Multi Physics Optimization of an e-Motor Rotor

Vincent Leconte, Director of Business Development - EM Solutions at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. Optimization of e-Motors, Case Studies: Jaguar Land Rover & Porsche. Cooling Simulation of the eMotors.

System Level Optimization of Key Electric Vehicle Powertrain Attributes Learn More

System Level Optimization of Key Electric Vehicle Powertrain Attributes

Gonçalo Pereira, Principal Applications Engineer at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. Trade-off Studies between Battery Pack, e-Motor, Range etc. System Model Generation to Explore Sensitivities.

CFD Simulation for Electric Vehicle Powertrain Development Learn More

CFD Simulation for Electric Vehicle Powertrain Development

Gareth Lee, Senior CFD Specialist at Altair presents at the 2019 UK e-Mobility Seminar. How multiphase SPH can support cooling and lubrication system development. Improving powertrain efficiency and thermal management for better EV performance.

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