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Altair® HyperWorks® 2023

The One and Only Best-In-Class Design and Simulation Platform

The new Altair® HyperWorks® 2023 software release is here! Altair HyperWorks 2023 is the most powerful and versatile open design and simulation platform available, empowering engineers with a comprehensive suite of CAE software for a wide range of industries. By harnessing the power of computational science, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI), Altair HyperWorks 2023 introduces a brand new user experience, blazing-fast speeds, an open and programmable architecture, and AI-powered workflows. Altair HyperWorks 2023 also brings new features and enhancements across disciplines, including fluids and thermal, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), materials, systems modeling, discrete element modeling, electronic system design, electromagnetics, multiphysics, multibody dynamics, structural analysis, and simulation-driven design for manufacturing.

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Transform Your CAE Simulation and Design Workflow

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Reimagine Product Design

With a reinvented user-centric and modular interface that emphasizes unparalleled interoperability – enhanced by AI-powered workflows and blazing-fast speeds – Altair HyperWorks 2023 gives engineers the ability to explore more design options and make faster, informed decisions in a seamless, integrated CAE simulation environment. Intelligent adaptive management of modeling entities boosts graphics performance, enabling seamless multitasking on assemblies while focusing on intricate sub-assembly details. Leveraging HPC environments supports complex large-scale simulations, fostering deeper analytics and global collaboration.

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Accelerate Innovation

Altair HyperWorks 2023 helps users bring products to market faster with an open and programmable CAE software platform. It offers the flexibility and scalability to personalize workflows, integrate with third-party software, and boost productivity via automation. Utilize Python APIs and enjoy seamless integration with PDM systems and solvers in a variety of disciplines, including computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multibody dynamics (MBD), electromagnetics (EMAG), and electronic design automation (EDA).

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Embrace AI

Altair HyperWorks 2023 puts AI-powered simulation and generative design CAE software in the hands of all engineers, guiding engineers through AI-augmented workflows to automate complex tasks, identify data trends, and make more accurate predictions. With Altair HyperWorks 2023, users can create custom AI models from previous models and reduced-order models for optimized system CAE simulations.

Altair HyperWorks 2023 Highlights: Innovating with Every Release

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A New CAE Simulation and Design Experience

Altair® HyperMesh® has been redesigned with a user-centric approach, offering an intuitive interface that redefines CAE software design processes across industries with unmatched pre- and post-processing capabilities for finite element (FE) modeling. Powered by AI-augmented modeling and visualization tools, next-gen design and optimization workflows, and featuring an open and programmable user-friendly interface, HyperMesh empowers users to effortlessly manage large and complex models, unveil critical insights, optimize designs, and foster innovation.

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Reimagining CFD Design and Precision

HyperMesh CFD streamlines CFD modeling workflows in a unified, user-friendly environment that boasts geometric modeling tools, CAD Wrapper enhancements, and design exploration with integrated morphing technologies for process automation; notably introducing an end-to-end workflow for external fluid flow and greenhouse noise issues through advanced aerodynamics and fan noise simulations.

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Integrated Multiphysics for EDA

Altair® SimLab® revolutionizes electrified product development, standing as an integrated multiphysics CAE simulation solution for EDA. By unifying diverse workflows under a single umbrella and introducing a range of advanced analysis and simulation tools, SimLab 2023 delivers EDA efficiency and precision.

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Secure, Centralized Simulation Process and Data Management

Altair Simulation Cloud Suite serves as a gateway to secure, centralized simulation process and data management. Seamlessly integrated with existing ecosystems, SCS enhances collaboration, data organization, and informed decision-making.

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One Total Twin Solution

Altair® Twin Activate®, the foundation of Altair's digital twin solution, provides an open and flexible platform that enables whole system CAE simulation with real-time digital twin deployment through any product lifecycle stage.

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Redefining CAD-to-Simulation

Altair® SimSolid® streamlines the transition from CAD to simulation, setting a new benchmark for fast and accurate structural analysis on large and complex assemblies without the need for geometry prep or meshing. This cutting-edge software delivers results in seconds to minutes, achieving speeds up to 25x faster and facilitating simultaneous evaluation of design scenarios. Additionally, Altair SimSolid offers a cloud-enabled alternative, eliminating the need for infrastructure investments or costly GPUs.

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Implicit Modeling Meets Design Innovation

Altair® Inspire™ delivers a one-click implicit modeling solution, optimizing lattice structure designs for lightweight objectives. Experience rapid design iterations and achieve peak performance. Additionally, a new high-performance GPU-powered rendering engine elevates graphical representations, bringing designs to life.

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Altair HyperWorks 2023 Product Releases and Updates

Electronics

Altair® EEvision™ facilitates faster, more precise electrical system exploration, ushering in a new benchmark for productivity and digital twin accuracy.

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Altair® Feko® introduces automatic mesh refinement for more accurate electromagnetic simulations and incorporates realistic dielectric materials for enhanced antenna design and placement analysis, all while expanding the component library to target general EMC and EMI simulations.

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Altair® Flux® simplifies e-motor drive and power electronics system simulation. 3D magnetic simulations in SimLab improve electromagnetic analysis accuracy. Enhanced integration with PSIM and Twin Activate streamlines workflows and data synchronization between simulation tools. Flux 2023 also introduces distributed computing, reducing computation times for faster electromagnetic system analysis.

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Altair® FluxMotor® seamlessly integrates with Altair PSIM™ and Twin Activate® for seamless end-to-end workflows and introduces automated Altair® HyperStudy® workflows, accelerating the design optimization process. It also enhances computation distribution, thus slashing computation times.

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Altair® PollEx™ offers a more extensive design verification review of PCB designs with new checks for layer stack-up in boards and acute angles in patterns. Additionally, processing technical cleanliness analysis results is faster with ODB++ database export, and rapid EMI analysis is supported with the automated radiated-emissions feature. These design for manufacturing (DFM) verification checks, along with other verification analysis improvements and ease-of-use enhancements, allow users to validate designs at the early product development stage, reducing prototype needs and time to market.

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Altair® PSIM™ enhances power electronics workflows with extended Embed and HyperSpice integration. It also introduces the PSIM-Embed Wrapper for fixed-point DSP code generation and offers new HyperSpice power electronics application circuits, serving as an alternative Spice solution for power electronic engineers. Additionally, users can now simulate EMI using the PSIM EMI design suite's calibrated semiconductor device folders.

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Silicon Debug Tools, including StarVision PRO, SpiceVision PRO, RTLvision PRO, and GateVision PRO, streamline and accelerate semiconductor design and debugging.

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Altair® SimLab® offers an integrated electrified product development platform that streamlines end-to-end workflows, improves reliability analysis for thermal, shock, and vibration loads, and enhances PCB analysis with better drop impact testing and solder fatigue analysis. The update also introduces new ECAD readers, scalable battery thermal runaway simulations, and advanced electric motor design solutions.

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Fluids

Altair® AcuSolve® incorporates advanced modeling capabilities to simulate thermal runaway and thermal propagation in battery systems, prioritizing safety and broadening the scope from single battery modules to comprehensive pack simulations.

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Altair® Flow Simulator™ brings eight specialized HTC correlations, an intuitive GUI, and the ability to export FMUs for solver coupling. It also introduces a "Shutdown" logic to improve transient analyses, offering convergence support during gas turbine phases with a customizable minimum heat transfer coefficient.

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Altair® HyperMesh® CFD features a new unified user-centric interface, streamlining the entire CFD workflow for diverse applications like aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, internal flow, multiphase flow, thermal analysis, and moving mesh simulations. This modular interface prioritizes user needs and offers robust geometric modeling tools, including CAD Wrapper enhancements, case setup, post-processing, and design exploration with integrated morphing technologies for DOE studies and process automation. Notably, this release brings a solution-focused, end-to-end workflow to address external fluid flow and greenhouse noise challenges through seamless aerodynamics and fan noise simulations.

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Altair® Inspire® offers a new fluids workflow that empowers design engineers with an easy-to-use tool for the quick, advanced exploration and optimization of fluid flow designs.

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Altair® nanoFluidX® unveils a paradigm-shifting suspension model feature, enhancing vehicle behavior analysis in water-wading scenarios and offering detailed insights into industry-wide challenges.

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Altair® ultraFluidX® introduces a new wall model for superior near-wall accuracy in simulations and an enhanced broadband noise acoustic source.

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Discrete Element Modeling & Multibody Dynamics

Altair® EDEM™ enables diverse particle shapes in a single simulation, all of which now support Materials, Meta-Particle, Volume Packing, and Material Block functions. It replaces text-based preferences with a user-centric API Parameter Interface. The Linear Elastic Bond Model (LEBM) introduces innovative bonding techniques; residence time models provide detailed insights into particle dynamics in user-defined regions like spheres, cylinders, or boxes.

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Altair® MotionSolve®, Altair® MotionView®, and Inspire Motion, Altair's multibody solution, introduce an even more user-friendly experience, empowering engineers to tackle complex problems with ease and efficiency. Highlights include a redesigned MotionView interface that streamlines workflows and aligns with the acclaimed interface of Inspire Motion. Furthermore, MotionSolve now features integration with Jupyter Notebook, providing users with a straightforward, document-centric approach to simulations. Other highlights include new capabilities such as soft soil solutions for off-road mobility, double-pin tracked vehicles and powertrain with automatic transmission. Additionally, a new Machinery Tools extension has been unveiled.

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Materials

Altair® Material Data Center™ offers usability, security, sustainability analysis, and customization enhancements that empower users to make informed material selections, optimize material databases, and streamline workflows.

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Altair Material Modeler offers seamless AMDC integration, enabling instant access to an extensive material library. With tailored database management, you can easily store and manage CAE-ready stress-strain curves in your personalized hub.

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Simulation Driven Design for Manufacturing

Altair ® Inspire™ has enhanced its geometry creation capabilities by including new implicit modeling to generate and optimize lattice structures for lightweighting. A high-performance GPU-powered rendering engine amplifies these updates, bringing graphics to life. With the addition of 5-axis milling optimization constraints, Altair reinforces its position as a leading generative design solution, accommodating all manufacturing and machining processes. Python APIs give users the flexibility to adapt the software environment to their needs.

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Altair® Inspire Cast allows users to effortlessly track all actions and components generated within the application using the new Construction History feature. This recorded history provides a clear understanding of your development process, while also offering capabilities for storage and further edits, making iterative design more streamlined.

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Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer offers seamless integration to AMDC’s database of over 450 polymeric materials for extrusion analysis, enabling users to effortlessly explore and import desired materials into their local database.

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Altair® Inspire™ Form enables Class-A surface quality evaluation post-forming through a powerful new graphics engine, ensuring precise visualization and assessment.

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Altair® Inspire™ PolyFoam now features added support for residual stress analysis, enabling engineers to map stresses from the polyfoam process directly onto detailed structural analysis models, which ensues deeper insights and thorough evaluations of performance and durability across use cases.

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Structural Analysis & Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC)

Altair® HyperLife® streamlines fatigue damage by pinpointing and grouping hotspot areas based on thresholds. It integrates with HyperView for damage tracking and introduces a Range Envelope feature to utilize stress ranges from selected load cases, even without external load-history data.

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Altair® HyperMesh® introduces a transformative user-centric experience, emphasizing streamlined domain-driven workflows to boost productivity. This release champions faster load times, superior graphic responsiveness, and the capacity to manage multiple models simultaneously in the same session. Enhancements include optimized meshing and geometry workflows, customizable shortcuts extending to Python and Tcl scripts, and advancements in the concept and model build and assembly process. Direct integration with OpenPDM connectors ensures seamless PLM access, while Altair® PhysicsAI's™ expanded AI-augmented capabilities for faster and more efficient physics predictions.

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Altair® HyperView® offers unmatched visualization precision through synchronized contour and iso plot, improved command recording with ABAQUS 2023 ODB file compatibility, and enhanced reading performance for ODB and compressed LS-DYNA key files. The upfront loader profile is now named HyperView - MultiCore, reflecting a renewed emphasis on efficiency and speed.

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Altair® OptiStruct® offers many enhancements, including for linear and nonlinear durability, implicit and explicit FEA, dynamics, thermal analysis, electrical analysis, and complex multiphysics simulations. It also features enhanced optimization workflows and tools, such as a durability workflow and support for five-axis milling manufacturing constraints.

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Altair® physicsAI™ brings a new technology for fast physics predictions using geometric deep learning, which increases usability and a extends into a range of applications within HyperMesh. Enhanced dataset support for various elements and a new confidence score metric helps users assess results’ reliability.

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Altair® Radioss® enhances LS-DYNA input reading for easier code access and workflow integration, adding biomechanics support for crash testing with human body models, and advanced composite material analysis for aerospace and automotive applications.

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The Altair® S-FRAME® solutions broaden their range of international design codes across more geographic regions. Additionally, updated links for transferring data from third-party analyses facilities smoother workflows. New interoperability between S-FRAME and HyperMesh facilitates design exploration via advanced simulations.

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Altair SimSolid® brings enhanced workflows and solver performance that deliver consistent results via improved solution settings. Benefit from a new geometry reader for optimized CATIA file handling, create custom connections through imported virtual bushings, and tighten bolts to achieve precise axial force in all loading conditions.

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Systems Modeling

Altair Compose® brings a new communication library for seamless Internet of Things (IoT) integration and a customizable GUI for personalized automated and interactive workflows; create, modify, and encrypt extensions for enhanced security and personalization.

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Altair Embed® introduces crucial updates, including MISRA-C 2021/AMD2 compliance for reliability in safety-critical industries. It also adds support for Texas Instruments F2800157 microcontroller, STM32 L4P5xx ultra-low power microcontrollers, and the Bosch BME 280 sensor, broadening its application range. Furthermore, the inclusion of Robot Operating System (ROS) support simplifies control system development, benefiting both industry and academia.

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Altair® romAI™ introduces Auto Exploration, enabling users to fine-tune multiple models for peak performance and precision. Additionally, a heat map visualizes signal correlation coefficients. An option to pause training provides enhanced control over the model creation process.

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Altair® Twin Activate®, the foundational product for Altair’s digital twin solutions, now offers productivity improvements, enhanced code generation capabilities, and a streamlined interface, including a heat map for feature selection and auto exploration and advanced code generation features for expanded model support.

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