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® advances electromagnetic simulations with improved modeling of realistic cable installations for EMC/EMI challenges typical in the automotive and aerospace sectors. Faster scattering analysis of structures, including lossy dielectrics, is now possible using Characteristic Basis Functions Method and parallel computing for propagation studies is supported. Extended model protection and solver-accessible AMD AOCL libraries improve efficiency. Updates to propagation models and 5G capabilities, including beam steering and support for multiple mobile stations for point and trajectory modes, ensure reliable communication systems.

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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® expands evaluation and analysis capabilities across machine types and features enhanced computing efficiency that accelerates results and shortens development cycles. The ability to export step-skew machines to Flux and enable seamless data sharing with Altair® Flow Simulator™ enhances thermal simulations and expands the solution’s versatility. 

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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 key enhancements, including the direct import of part libraries (UPF) from Ultra Librarian for PCB and UPE, support for Cadence Allegro variant models, and improved hazard area calculations for technical cleanliness. These updates offer more precise analysis, simplifying PCB design review and verification, reducing iterations, and accelerating time to market.

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Altair® PSIM™ enhances power electronics and motor drive systems with new SimLab integration for detailed thermal and CFD analysis. Improved Flux integration streamlines motor thermal and noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) analysis, while the PSIM and Altair® HyperStudy® integration and steady-state circuit detection automates and optimizes power converter simulations. Enhanced coupling with HyperSpice and Feko, incorporating S-parameters, advances electromagnetic interference (EMI) simulation capabilities, delivering a comprehensive solution for complex 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™ continues to prove its market leadership by setting the industry standard for DEM. Now more powerful and user-friendly than ever, EDEM 2024.1 introduces concave polyhedral particles, enabling users to reproduce more complex physics when required. A new particle boundary condition simplifies simulation setup, while EDEM's unique powders database has been expanded by now including 15,000 new material models calibrated against the FT4 rheometer basic flowability energy measurement.

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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™ embodies the concept of the digital thread, transforming raw material test data into reliable, fully traceable information for use in the product design process. This centralized data is seamlessly accessible to users from design and simulation tools like HyperMesh, SimLab, Altair® Inspire™ Mold, and more. This integration reinforces Altair’s leadership in simulation-driven design, powered by accurate, traceable multidisciplinary material data across a range of CAE solutions.

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Altair® Material Modeler™ provides true multiphysics material modeling capabilities, enabling quick and accurate generation of simulation-ready material cards from test data. It supports the development and validation of advanced material models to ensure high-confidence simulations. Integrated seamlessly with Material Data Center, it offers instant access to an extensive material library and allows organizations to store validated CAE-ready data in private databases.

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Altair® Multiscale Designer® offers a powerful solution for understanding material behavior, featuring a completely redesigned, intuitive GUI and streamlined workflows for continuous and short fiber-reinforced materials. This latest version supports OptiStruct for virtual testing methods such as UNT/C, OHT/C, 3-point and 4-point bending, dogbone, and railshear tests. Key enhancements include support for legacy project files, predefined templates for material types, real-time review of non-linear constituent material properties, and simplified inverse characterization workflows, making advanced material simulation and optimization more efficient and accessible.

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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 reduces validation time with innovative analysis tools. Detect casting defects early with the porosity preview feature, and optimize efficiency with filling, cooling, and thermo-mechanical analysis to create lighter, more economical parts. Inspire Cast now includes a voxel mesh strategy, enabling users to refine specific components for increased accuracy without refining the entire system. This targeted refinement allows for greater precision in critical areas while saving time and computational resources. Additionally, the precision of filling results has been enhanced by doubling the number of available steps during visualization.

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Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Metal enables efficient metal extrusion design and manufacturing across industries, renowned for its full-cycle transient analysis, which predicts charge weld and skin defects. This release introduces several new transient analysis features, including nose cone analysis to predict the effect of initial billet temperature on the nose cone. Full-cycle analysis now supports coupling with OptiStruct, and quenching analysis of stationary profiles is also available. Additionally, an automatic PowerPoint report generation is now offered for tool strength analysis, streamlining reporting processes.

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Altair® Inspire™ Extrude Polymer advances polymer extrusion simulation with a new die creation module tailored for plate dies, designed specifically for single polymer extrusion. This feature eliminates the need for a CAD file, greatly simplifying the analysis process. Additionally, the release includes automatic PowerPoint report generation for tool strength analysis, streamlining reporting tasks.

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Altair® Inspire™ Form enables tool and die engineers to model, time, and synchronize all tool motions in the forming process. The motion preview feature allows users to validate tool movements before analysis. New options now enable positioning parts after springback on a fixture or reference part, mirroring physical measurement setups and providing an efficient method for compensating tools for springback. Additionally, new parameters for meshing tools in tryout simulations have been added, allowing quick calculation and contouring of negative draft, trim angle, and minimum tool gap on any geometry. These enhancements streamline model setup for feasibility and tryout analysis, benefiting design engineers focused on stamping feasibility and tool and die engineers in the automotive and consumer electronics industries.

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Altair® Inspire™ Mold enables seamless design progression from concept to prototype with a powerful simulation engine. The latest release introduces advanced fiber analysis capabilities, allowing users to perform molding simulations with fiber-reinforced materials. Enhanced post-processing features provide improved visualization tools, enabling graphical representation of fiber orientation tensors through vector fields and detailed plots. Additionally, the meshing process has been optimized to deliver more robust and accurate results, ensuring that simulations closely reflect geometry, particularly in critical areas like runners and sprues.

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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 enables the design, testing, optimization, and validation of foam components in a virtual environment, saving time and resources while delivering better products. The new material characterization feature allows users to easily customize materials using experimental data, which can be gathered through a simple cup test to measure rise and temperature profiles. This data is seamlessly integrated into Inspire PolyFoam, enabling comprehensive material characterization. Powered by AI, the process automates complex analyses, allowing new materials to be fully characterized with precision and ease. Additionally, improvements in the time step calculation algorithm and core scalability have enhanced performance, making Inspire PolyFoam 2024.1 operate 10-20% faster for quicker simulations and more efficient processing.

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Altair® HyperGraph® simplifies data visualization, allowing engineers and analysts to quickly generate accurate and insightful plots. The new Math Macro dialog introduces an improved functions and macro editor with stack math capabilities, enabling users to edit built-in macros and create new ones more efficiently and precisely. Additionally, the new Values tool facilitates easier viewing of data points across multiple curves simultaneously.

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Altair® HyperLife® now supports transient and modal superposition results for seam weld fatigue and utilization evaluation, enhancing the stress-life analysis for weld certification. Additionally, this release introduces a new specialty module for crack growth analysis. HyperLife Crack Growth leverages weight function-based stress intensity factors, utilizing local stress at the crack for more accurate predictions.

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Altair® HyperMesh® continues to deliver an industry-leading user experience, offering significant advancements towards a more efficient and customizable CAE ecosystem. This release includes broad improvements to Python's API, addressing the strong user demand. HyperMesh also brings pivotal advancements across multiple domains—such as generative design, mesh generation, 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® now integrates powerful Altair® romAI™ capabilities, leveraging machine learning models with scalar and vector responses for predictive analysis in static and dynamic simulations. It also adds support for Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) models, enabling seamless use of predictive models across different platforms. The new numerical precision definition feature allows users to generate precise, meaningful values, including manufacturing tolerances. Additionally, the enhanced TPL editor offers improved format editing and navigation, streamlining the customization and refinement of studies. 

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Altair® HyperView® enhances users’ simulation post-processing experience with expanded features. The new Extract and Linearize tool, now supported in the HyperView-MultiCore profile, accelerates data processing for more efficient contour value extraction and stress/strain linearization. The upgraded 3D Model Export now supports GLB files and includes a powerful new HTML export feature, allowing seamless 3D model and results sharing across teams and devices without the need for additional software. Additionally, the expanded Python API adds versatility with new measure classes and video export options. These innovations empower engineers and analysts to visualize and communicate complex results with precision and ease.

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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™ harnesses the full power of Altair One®, allowing you to effortlessly leverage scalable high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud resources for training. This seamless integration simplifies the process and saves valuable time by saving projects directly on Altair Drive and initiating training with a single click. Additionally, machine learning models that evolve and improve as more data becomes available, in combination with an expanded diagnostic tools suite, ensure superior AI model quality and performance with unparalleled predictive accuracy.

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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® continues to advance simulation-driven design with several key new features. Response spectrum analysis provides a quick, efficient solution for transient events, while Neuber stress analysis estimates plastic stresses without the need for full nonlinear simulations. Imported thermal boundary conditions simplify load applications from other simulations, such as CFD. This update introduces robust closing contact, a new clamping contact condition, and the ability to calculate collisions on deformed shapes, addressing tolerancing issues. Additionally, implicit welds now support trapezoidal shapes, broadening their application.

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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. Enhanced curve fitting, path optimizers, and improvements to the Statistical and Signal Processing libraries elevate analysis capabilities, enabling users to solve complex problems with greater ease and precision. The new Figure browser dialog allows graphical control over the style and appearance of 2D and 3D plots. Additionally, Compose's extension to Altair® AI Studio streamlines data-driven AI/machine learning engineering processes, making it ideal for digital twin applications. These updates accelerate innovation and enhance product performance in today's data-driven landscape.

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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® PSIM™ advances model-based system development (MBD) for power electronics and motor drive systems by enabling multidisciplinary simulation that integrates mechanical and electrical models. Coupled with Flux for motor thermal, NVH analysis, and HyperSpice for EMI simulation, PSIM’s automatic code generation for embedded systems delivers a comprehensive solution for addressing advanced power engineering challenges.

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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® further enhances its capabilities within Altair’s “One Total Twin” solution. Improved component handling ensures model accuracy and accelerates model assembly. Advanced code generation for multiple targets, including Python, FMU, and standalone packages, enhances customization and integration. The addition of a new Computer Vision Library supports image processing, while OPC-UA communication blocks simplify programmable logic controller (PLC) integration, streamlining the concept-to-reality process.

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