Skip to main content
Exploded view of a smartphone, showing different layers such as CAD, simulation, electronics, and manufacturing.

Product Design

Altair’s product design solution integrates simulation into the design process, empowering product designers to validate ideas early and make informed decisions about performance, material use, and manufacturability. Model freely, render with precision, and leverage intuitive simulation and optimization technologies to eliminate reliance on back-and-forth iterations with engineers. From concept to production, our tools accelerate your design process, helping you deliver exceptional products that captivate and outperform.

Learn More

A progression of layers of a GPU being shown.

Intuitive CAD-Like Tools with Integrated Simulation

Successful design relies on a clear understanding of user needs and preferences. By establishing well-defined product requirements, designers can guide the development of innovative ideas and concepts. From initial sketch to assessing component integration, refining results, and evaluating manufacturability, Altair offers a seamless, end-to-end solution to enable simulation-driven design. With a CAD-like sketching environment using guided tools, users can unleash their creativity and explore new shapes.

A 3D-rendering of a sleek, bright red bicycle.

Flexible 3D Modeling and Rendering

With Altair® Inspire™, harness advanced modeling techniques, part manufacturing, optimization, and validation to deliver unmatched product development innovation. Explore Inspire's various editions to find the one that best fits your needs.

Combine different modeling techniques such as boundary representation (BRep), PolyNURBS, facets, and implicit to effortlessly create and explore even the most complex designs. Bring your vision to life by generating high-quality, photorealistic rendered images and animations in real time with physically accurate lighting.

Inspire your creativity—design, simulate, and optimize with tools built for designers.

Contact Us
A rendered necklace made with modern lattice design.

Generative Design for Advanced Manufacturing

Beginning with topology optimization, Altair has been leading design transformation for over 25 years, empowering customers to develop lightweight, structurally efficient, manufacturable designs.

Step into the future of generative design performance with Altair’s one-click implicit design tools. Effortlessly create lattice structures and create designs ready for both additive and traditional manufacturing processes.

A 3D render of a topology optimized soccer cleat, showing sole and foot support.

Seamless Concept to Manufacturing Workflow

Altair's integrated tools guide users through the entire simulation-driven design process, from meeting functional and performance requirements to progressing to the factory floor for quality production, and then reaching the assembly line and beyond.

Best of all, users can achieve all this without even leaving their desk. Altair combines the familiarity of traditional CAD tools with powerful simulation capabilities, delivering a complete design and manufacturing solution to turn your ideas into reality.

Get in Touch

How can we help?

We'd love to hear from you. Here's how you can reach us.

Contact Us