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Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer

Design for Efficient Polymer Extrusion

Every extrusion company is looking to eliminate costly prototypes and reduce redesign cycles. Now advanced physics simulations are accessible to organizations of all sizes. Inspire Extrude Polymer is an easy-to-learn tool that enables simulation to be used by any engineer or designer to increase their understanding of how profile features and process variables interact for any particular polymer. It will help your team achieve productivity gains by reducing product development costs and improve extrusion quality, increasing production yield and customer satisfaction.

Make better design decisions by detecting potential defects before a die is built. Even the most complex profiles can be validated for production with Inspire Extrude Polymer. Using the geometry creation and simplification tools, CAD can be quickly de-featured and modified inside the tool, ensuring potential defects such as unbalanced flow, overheating profile quality, and poor surface quality issues are corrected early in development.

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Why Inspire Extrude Polymer?

Improve Extrusion Quality

Using Inspire Extrude Polymer, users can create virtual die trials to determine and eliminate any and all potential issues in die design to help correct them prior to any production or die design.

Improve Productivity

Identify potential causes of production failure and rectify them upfront to optimize process conditions and increase productivity.

Easy-to-use

Through a highly intuitive interface, users can benefit from a quick ramp up in detecting extrusion defects early, resulting in both cost and time savings.

Key Features

Guided Extrusion Templates

Inspire Extrude Polymer provides guided templates for coextrusion, spiral dies, coextrusion with metal inserts, and film and sheet dies.

Predict Extrusion Defects

Inspire Extrude Polymer allows its users to predict and remove extrusion defects such as profile distortion, die swell, and coextrusion interferance.

Powerful Results Visualization

Users of Inspire Extrude Polymer can benefit from its powerful results visualization including temperature, displacement, velocity distribution, pressure, viscosity, cooling time, and more.