Altair® Inspire™
Transform Design and Manufacturing with Simulation-Driven Insights
Altair® Inspire® is a powerful CAE tool built specifically for designers, bringing simulation and computational physics into a CAD-like environment. By seamlessly integrating geometry modeling, generative design, and manufacturing simulation, Inspire offers rapid concept exploration, performance validation, and manufacturability assessments early in the design process—bridging the gap between ideation and production. Unlike the complexity of traditional CAE tools, Inspire makes simulation accessible from the start of development, driving innovation and empowering designers to make informed decisions with ease.
Why Inspire?
Advanced Hybrid Modeling
Inspire’s hybrid modeling environment lets users seamlessly combine parametric boundary representation (BRep), PolyNURBS organic modeling, facets, and implicit geometry. Intelligent sketching tools, unique construction history, and the ability to assign variables across any unit system accelerates design cycles and ensures consistency. Geometry can be efficiently reconstructed and optimized from topology results, empowering users to quickly develop and explore complex, organic shapes without compromising precision or ease of use.
Physics-Based Design Exploration
Inspire brings designer-friendly computational physics into an accessible, intuitive environment for rapid exploration of structural, motion, and fluid performance. Embedded solvers eliminate or automate meshing, streamlining analysis without sacrificing accuracy. Structural and motion simulations provide critical insights into complex assemblies to optimize mechanical system behavior and structural integrity. An innovative, high-speed, GPU-accelerated fluids solver is seamlessly integrated into a design exploration framework, enabling efficient evaluation of thermal and aerodynamic performance.
Performance-driven Optimization and Manufacturability
With a comprehensive suite of optimization tools, Inspire drives the creation of high-performance, manufacturable designs. Users can perform topography, gauge, PolyNURBS, and topology optimization, enabling efficient material use, structural refinement, and lightweighting. Integrated workflows support design of experiment (DOE) studies and shape optimization, facilitating rapid evaluation of design alternatives to improve durability and ensure manufacturability across various production methods.
Key Features
Geometry Creation and Simplification
Create, modify, and defeature geometry using parametric modeling tools. Utilize PolyNURBS to create organic, free-form geometry.
Dynamic Motion
Easily simulate the motion of complex mechanisms. Automatically detect contacts and joints, and enhance designs with springs, dampers, and actuators for accurate performance evaluation.
Topology Optimization
Achieve innovative designs with advanced 2D and 3D topology optimization. Define optimization objectives while applying manufacturing, stress, displacement, frequency and other constraints to create lightweight, high-performance structures.
Lattice Structures
Unlock the potential of lattice structures with one-click implicit design tools.
Structural Analysis
Perform linear static and normal modes analysis with advanced embedded solvers. Rapidly assess multiple design variants from fully featured CAD geometry, while traditional finite element analysis (FEA) ensures detailed structural validation.
Design for Manufacturing
Using Inspire’s rich set of manufacturing simulation tools, evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for 3D printing, casting, and forming. Seamlessly access integrated material data to optimize designs for strength, weight, and manufacturability.
Industrial Design and Rendering
Combine different modeling techniques to effortlessly create and explore even the most complex designs. Create stunning images and dynamic animations in real time with physically accurate lighting.
Fluid Analysis
Enhance fluid system design with embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools for accurate performance evaluation. Leverage conjugate heat transfer simulations to model cooling effects to optimize thermal management and system performance.
Advanced Reporting
Generate comprehensive PowerPoint and PDF reports to document motion, structural, and fluids simulations.