Altair® EEvision™ enhances electrical system management in automotive, aerospace, and industrial sectors with the introduction of the SmartExtract feature by auto-generating compact circuit diagrams focused only on essential information. Complemented by new digital twin models and improved mobile responsiveness, this release allows teams to access critical data on the go, accelerating development, debugging, and servicing.

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Altair® Feko® enhances electromagnetic simulations with improved modeling of realistic cable installations for EMC/EMI challenges typical in the automotive and aerospace sectors. This release enhances solvers for faster scattering analysis in lossy dielectrics and supports parallel computing for propagation studies. It also updates propagation models and 5G capabilities, and includes automated report generation to improve productivity.

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Altair® Flux® improves integration by allowing spatial mechanical stress distributions to be imported into Flux2D for effective coupling with Altair® OptiStruct® or Altair® Radioss®. Additional improvements increase speed and versatility, making Flux an ideal solution for electromechanical system design and analysis.

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Altair® FluxMotor® enhances its evaluation and analysis capabilities across various machine types. Improved computing efficiency speeds up results, reducing development time. Additionally, seamless data sharing with Altair® Flow Simulator™ facilitates more complex thermal simulations, enriching the solution's overall utility.

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Altair® HyperSpice™ boosts simulation accuracy and flexibility. Improved convergence in transient simulations and finer time step control handle fast events with ease. Enhanced simulation of parameterized circuit architectures simplifies customization and optimization of complex electronic designs.

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Altair® PollEx™ introduces new Design for Manufacturing (DFM) checks in flexible board areas, enhanced technical cleanliness validations, and Design for Electrification (DFE) verification checks for electrical conductor spacing, streamlining the PCB design review and verification process to reduce iterations and accelerate market readiness.

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Altair® PSIM™ accelerates the development of power electronics and motor drive systems with a new integration with SimLab for comprehensive thermal and CFD analysis. Enhanced integration with Flux streamlines motor thermal and noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) analysis, and improved coupling with Altair® HyperSpice™ boosts electromagnetic interference (EMI) simulation capabilities, offering a robust solution for advanced engineering challenges.

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Silicon Debug Tools accelerates semiconductor design visualization and debugging timelines. Improvements to the waveform viewer GUI and debugging capabilities provide deeper insights into large simulation runs, while expanded support for various Spice language dialects enhances analog and mixed-signal design processes, improving interoperability with existing tool flows.

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Altair® SimLab® empowers organizations to further accelerate electronic system design perfection. New integration with Ultra Librarian streamlines 3D PCB assembly modeling and visualization, enhancing accuracy and speed. Thermal analysis is greatly simplified with "what-if" studies for rapid component repositioning and geometry changes, facilitating design of experiments (DOE) and connection to physicsAI models. Additionally, it’s now possible to predict and improve PCB assembly life by simulating fatigue life. Multiphysics modeling for electric motor design includes workflows for electromagnetic, thermal, and noise analyses, with SimLab thermal model supporting advanced cooling techniques like liquid and oil spray. Furthermore, SimLab offers an enhanced solution for simulating and analyzing various materials—mined ores, soils, fibers, grains, tablets, powders, and more—to study the influence of fluid flow on particle motion.

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Altair® EDEM™ showcases its commitment to advancing optimization and simulation-driven design for DEM, particularly in heavy industry and consumer electronics. Significant enhancements to the Tavares UFRJ model for particle breakage applications streamlines workflows, providing more realistic behavior representation for mineral processing equipment design in the mining industry. The upgraded Hydrodynamic Lubrication model excels at simulating dense suspensions and pastes, benefitting battery manufacturing, electronics, and pharmaceuticals.

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Altair® MotionSolve® and Altair® MotionView®, Altair's multibody solutions enhance usability and flexibility in multibody modeling, simulation, visualization, and optimization processes. MotionSolve's new Frequency Response Analysis (FRA) delivers key insights into mechanical systems' NVH characteristics. Additionally, the new dual motor electric powertrain system for vehicle solutions streamlines vehicle and powertrain system modeling for electric vehicle (EV) designers.

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Altair® Material Data Center™ epitomizes the essence of digital thread, providing a robust solution for transforming raw material test data into reliable and traceable information ready to be used in the product design process. Raw data received from test laboratories is digitized and processed by Altair Material Modeler, a powerful data characterization tool, resulting in simulation-ready material models securely stored in Material Data Center. This centralized information is directly accessible to users from design and simulation tools such as HyperMesh, SimLab, and Altair Inspire Mold. This integration emphasizes Altair's commitment to being a leader in simulation-driven design, offering accurate and traceable material data to support multidisciplinary simulations across a variety of simulation tools.

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Altair Material Modeler offers a true multiphysics material modeling capability for quick and accurate modeling of simulation ready material cards from test data. Develop and validate complex material models to ensure high confidence in simulations. Seamless integration with Material Data Center enables instant access to an extensive material library and the ability to store validated CAE-ready data in a user's personalized hub.

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Altair ® Inspire™ reinforces its market-leading position as the most comprehensive simulation-driven design solution for design, performance analysis, and manufacturability. Starting with a sketch, build or edit geometries with parametric B-Rep solids, polyNURBS, facets, and implicit modeling, all within the same model. Features analysis tools for structural, fluids, and motion studies, complemented by designer-friendly computational physics for detailed analysis across various manufacturing processes. Inspire integrates powerful technologies like generative design and meshless simulation for rapid behavior prediction, maximizing design and manufacturing efficiency while ensuring top performance.

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Altair® Inspire™ Cast dramatically cuts validation time with its innovative analysis tools. Catch casting defects early with its porosity preview feature, identifying porosity-prone areas before they impact production. Optimize for efficiency with trimming analysis, designing lighter, more economical parts by removing access material. Gain in-depth porosity analysis in critical areas for unparalleled design confidence with Squeeze Pins simulation.

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Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Metal empowers efficient metal extrusion design and manufacturing for all industries. The new profile die creation module, beneficial for designers lacking CAD data, enables creation of all types of solid profile dies with pockets. For real-time decision making, Inspire Extrude Metal introduces elastic stress analysis using Altair SimSolid, with the option to seamlessly integrate with OptiStruct for detailed analysis. Additionally, transient profile nose cone analysis improves accuracy by accounting for billet preheat and taper effects, reducing reliance on physical prototypes.

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Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer takes polymer extrusion simulation to the next level. The Material Data Center now boasts over 800 materials, including 400 new gap-filled options, ensuring you have the data you need for accurate simulations. For even greater precision, users can now specify roller boundary conditions at the exit, ideal for extrusion processes involving rollers. Real-time elastic stress analysis with Altair SimSolid empowers faster decision-making, with the seamless integration of OptiStruct available for in-depth analysis.

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Altair® Inspire™ Form empowers a new level of simulation-driven design for modeling and visualizing feasibility analysis in both press and design coordinate systems. It introduces handling of pinching and ironing of sheets between tools at discrete locations and enables the creation of line drawbeads from tool surface features. Now, sheet material characteristics can also be modeled using advanced yield criteria. These enhancements are particularly beneficial for design engineers focusing on stamping feasibility, as well as manufacturing and tool and die engineers in the automotive and consumer electronics industries.

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Altair® Inspire™ Mold delivers significantly faster packing and warpage analysis, all while maintaining robustness and quality, thanks to its latest performance improvements. A comprehensive material database has expanded by 800 new entries, offering a wider range of options for accurate simulations. To empower even more informed design decisions, new visualization options for vectors enhance users’ ability to analyze results.

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Altair® Inspire™ Motion strengthens its position as a leading motion analysis tool by streamlining optimization and simulation-driven design. New motion model reports provide comprehensive documentation for your analysis, while Mesh Control for flexible bodies refines stress convergence without unnecessary complexity. Also, introducing Principal Stress and Principal Strain as new result types enhances stress assessment accuracy for flexible bodies.

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Altair® Inspire™ PolyFoam streamlines the design process and improves simulation accuracy with a focus on user experience and control. Seamless integration of foam into the construction history window empowers users to make precise geometric changes with ease. New options for nozzle configuration offer enhanced flexibility, allowing users to define nozzle speed, radius, and angle precisely. Additionally, a meshing preview provides a clear picture of users’ model meshes before running an analysis, ensuring confidence in results.

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Altair® HyperGraph® streamlines data visualization, enabling engineers and analysts to generate accurate and insightful plots quickly. The new Define Plots dialog in HyperGraph features an enhanced expression builder, allowing users to create curves from raw data and mathematical functions more efficiently and precisely.

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Altair® HyperLife® elevates efficiency and flexibility with enhanced accuracy and expanded certification compliance. Improved fatigue analysis capabilities now predict 1D spot weld fatigue under random loading conditions. Furthermore, greater control over fatigue evaluation at nodes allows for a more precise assessment of potential failure points. HyperLife streamlines compliance with industry standards through significant code additions and automated evaluation processes for both welded and base metals.

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Altair® HyperMesh® supercharged with streamlined Python API integration and an industry-leading user experience, delivers significant advancements towards a more efficient and customizable CAE ecosystem. This release is characterized by pivotal enhancements across multiple domains—generative design, meshing analysis, model build, assembly, and more—that significantly accelerate design and analysis processes, empowering organizations to develop market-differentiating strategies and innovations.

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Altair® HyperStudy® integrates powerful Altair® romAI™ capabilities as a machine learning model for predictive analysis in static and dynamic simulations and support for Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) models, enabling seamless use of predictive models across different platforms.

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Altair® OptiStruct® breaks new ground in structural analysis with a powerful combination of advancements. This latest release introduces significant enhancements in explicit dynamics analysis, alongside refinements to its best-in-class optimization technology and multi-physics functionalities – all unified within a single, streamlined code. This empowers customers to solve complex engineering problems with greater efficiency, using one model and one solver.

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Altair® physicsAI™ unleashes its full potential with the power of Altair One. Effortlessly leverage scalable HPC and cloud resources for training by saving projects directly on Altair Drive and initiating training with a single click. This seamless integration streamlines the process and saves you valuable time. Additionally, our newly expanded suite of diagnostic tools empowers you to achieve superior model quality and performance with unparalleled accuracy and evaluations.

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Altair® Radioss® strengthens its position as an industry-standard open platform, particularly for automotive and aerospace customers. This latest release streamlines the transition for LS-DYNA users by leveraging Radioss' capability to run LS-DYNA input models. Radioss enhances compatibility with LS-DYNA input formats, refines composite materials properties, and introduces various solver improvements for crash analysis and fluid-structure interaction.

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The Altair® S-FRAME® empowers structural engineers to achieve efficient, resilient designs faster than ever. Enhancements to the S-FRAME AEC analysis and design suite, including Altair® S-STEEL™, Altair® S-FOUNDATION™, Altair® S-TIMBER™, and Altair® S-CONCRETE™, streamline the entire process. Rapid and simplified multistory structure modeling, along with new features like automated wind load generation and seamless analysis-to-design workflows for tall concrete structures, significantly reduce project times. Additionally, expanded international design code compliance for steel, timber, and foundation design allows engineers to work on projects in more regions, expanding their reach.

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Altair SimSolid® takes simulation-driven design to the next level with groundbreaking advancements. Support for layered composites empowers users to model and analyze complex structures with skins and laminates, eliminating the need for meshing. Furthermore, transient thermal solutions enable the simulation of temperature-dependent material properties, facilitating analysis of thermal stresses and deformations. The inclusion of wind load calculations based on empirical equations expands Altair SimSolid's capabilities across industries – from aerospace and automotive to heavy machinery, energy, and architecture. These new workflows and advanced solutions empower engineers to tackle thermal and composite design challenges with unmatched efficiency.

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Altair® Weight Analytics™ enhances productivity and decision-making with a Cost Management feature for precise cost tracking. Currency exchange rate management ensures accurate financial planning, and integrating with Altair® Panopticon™ to deliver efficient data visualization and analysis. These enhancements collectively drive efficiency, cost savings, and more informed data-driven decisions.

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Altair Compose® empowers engineers with a powerful one-stop shop for computational and design tasks. The enhanced Communication library now seamlessly integrates with Kafka, Serial, and FTP, simplifying data exchange across complex systems. Additionally, improved Statistical and Signal Processing libraries elevate your analysis capabilities, allowing you to tackle complex problems with greater ease and accuracy. These updates, ideal for digital twin applications, accelerate innovation and product performance in a data-driven world.

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Altair Embed® expands embedded control system development and deployment across multiple industries. The code generator has been expanded to accept PSIM or Twin Activate diagrams producing MISRA-C 2023 compliant firmware for any of the 1,200+ microcontrollers in the Embed target support library. New JSON blocks, combined with improved MQTT communication, streamline firmware development of Internet of Things (IoT) edge and end devices.

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Altair® romAI™ empowers users to achieve peak model performance and precision with Auto Exploration, allowing you to fine-tune multiple models simultaneously, ensuring optimal results. Additionally, the ability to split multi-output models into individual outputs (decoupled outputs) enhances ROM accuracy. For a more comprehensive analysis, automatic training repetition trains a model from various starting points, enabling valuable convergence studies. Finally, the multi-selection feature in the post-processor simplifies choosing the optimal romAI model from exploration and training runs.

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Altair® Twin Activate®, strengths its role within the Altair digital twin solution. Enhanced component handling ensures model accuracy, while advanced Python code generation boosts customization and integration, streamlining the concept-to-reality process.

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