Altair's 2022.3 Simulation Software

Altair's 2022.3 Simulation Software Release is Here!

This update focuses on cloud collaboration and computing, efficient end-to-end simulation workflows, and superior design creation with AI-powered simulation. The latest release builds upon Simulation 2022 by including more new features and capabilities that broaden, strengthen, and further specialize Altair’s comprehensive simulation toolkit.

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Transform Collaboration and Computing in the Cloud

Altair One's cloud-based innovation platform accelerates innovation by eliminating data silos, IT constraints, and access barriers. New seamless digital thread workflows connecting the Altair® HyperWorks® platform and Altair One lets users preview or modify models, track and trace data, access online libraries, execute simulations to their cloud provider of choice, and collaborate with fellow Altair One users – all within a single sign-on ecosystem accessible from any location.

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Seamless Digital Thread Environment

Simulation 2022.3 provides a seamless digital thread environment by continuing to integrate simulation, data, and Altair One. New Altair® HyperMesh® multi-model capabilities enable engineers to manage multiple digitally connected model systems and subsystem variants within a single session, improving efficiency and reducing memory footprints.

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Data On Demand

Self-service access enables users to create dedicated high-performance computing (HPC) appliances that come equipped with all required simulation software. Users can create these private appliances on their cloud provider of choice, utilizing the best compute hardware to run simulation solvers and applications that can be run on GPU nodes for visualizing fluid dynamics or bulk and granular material simulations. All the HPC appliances in Altair One come with industry-proven workload schedulers that ensure optimal utilization of compute resources and faster turnaround time.

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Leveraging Simulation for Data and Compute

Improved workflows merge HyperWorks, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), with HPC in the Altair One Cloud platform. This unified approach reduces design iterations, accelerates optimization processes, eliminates data silos, and provides seamless access to data and computing resources in a collaborative end-to-end environment.

“Having little to no experience with HPC, it was very beneficial to have a solution that took care of our system and needs so we could focus on our expertise in engineering. I’m pleased to say we saw significant cost savings of around 49%.”

- Miguel Salazar, Simulation Engineer, C-TEC

Efficient End-to-End Simulation Workflows

Faster product development is possible with updated pre- and post-processing solutions for HyperMesh, Altair® Inspire™, Altair® SimLab®, and more. New to 2022.3, use Inspire Fluids to create, modify, and change the shape of parts or assemblies to meet thermal and hydraulic design objectives. Inspire now supports the Linux user interface and introduces a new set of geometry creation tools. Additionally, electronic system design improvements provide the means to perform battery module modeling and thermal analysis of complex electronic systems with greater speed and lower costs.

Velocity streamlines inside an industrial valve with Altair Inspire.

Simplified Multiphysics Access

Inspire Fluids simulates internal flows at the design stage, making it accessible to designers and engineers without the need for extensive CFD analysis expertise. Compatible with both GPU and CPU, users can observe fluid and thermal behavior earlier for faster, more informed product design cycles. Multibody systems simulation in Simulation 2022.3 also presents easier model setups, coordination of multiple model inputs and timing, and methods for rapidly organizing and comparing multiple analysis runs. Faster visualization, live animations for Altair® EDEM™ and Altair® AcuSolve® with Altair® MotionSolve® co-simulation runs, and dedicated workflows for vehicle modeling are also available with 2022.3 MotionView updates.

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Transforming Electronic System Design

Designing and simulating electronics systems is also easier with improved workflows for large models, improving scalability. Design and improve battery systems from a holistic thermal and flow standpoint with AcuSolve. Improvements to battery module modeling as well as automatic smoothing for flow topology optimization, and integrated Altair® PSIM™ libraries with Altair Compose® facilitate greater power electronics and motor drive design simulations. SimLab supports end-to-end simulation workflows with a new tool for analyzing and modeling parasitic effects in electronic circuits, continued Altair® Flux® integration, and new features for analyzing complex electronic systems with Altair® ElectroFlo™.

A new addition to HyperMesh’s toolkit for concept design, Exoskeleton, used for a vehicle frame design.

Streamlined Pre- and Post-Processing Solutions

Pre- and post-processing solutions provide enhanced end-to-end workflows within HyperMesh, MotionSolve, and SimLab to streamline product development. Exoskeleton, a new addition to the HyperMesh toolkit, facilitates faster concept exploration and detailed component design for optimal performance. Additional enhancements for plotting results, and display representation enhancements improve user efficiency.

“Models that would take hours with competitive software tools, we were able to convert in roughly 10-20 minutes with Altair.”

- William Villers, Managing Director, TEN TECH AEROSPACE & DEFENSE, INC.

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Unlocking Superior Designs with AI-Powered Simulation

Capture expert decision-making for improved Design-of-Experiments (DOE) outcomes. Altair® DesignAI™ enhancement provides new flexibility enabling component or element properties to vary within a design exploration and optimization. Expanded integration allows users to create general links between variables of any type and generate responses from external file types. Further enhancements improve efficiency by automatically updating the model with design variables from any exploration run.

Lightweight representation in HyperMesh of an automotive large cad assembly.

Modeling Made Easier

Applications within Altair Activate®, such as Altair® romAI™, offer modeling capabilities that aren’t just limited to 3D modeling – 1D and 2D modeling is also possible, including augmented AI features that help users generate reduced order models. Import large CAD assemblies in minutes to create lightweight representations of CAD geometry for rapid previewing and validations – ideal for HyperMesh CFD workflows.

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Improve Design Efficiency

Enhancements to Altair® HyperStudy® improve predictive modeling efficiency with added DOE sampling methods. Understand the individual and combined contributions from design variable constraints to make changes for improved data points. HyperMesh shapeAI expands machine learning with the Cassify tool to automatically classify and predict parts identified in new models.

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AI-Powered Design and Optimization

Advance product optimization and shorten design cycles by capturing expert decision-making in HyperMesh Design Explorer to improve DOE outcomes. With AI enhancements for property variations and expanded link creation between variables, users can automatically update models with design variables from any exploration run and reach design decisions faster.

“Machine learning-based predictive surrogate modeling holds exciting promise for augmenting our human expertise, uncovering new insights and efficiencies while shortening development time.”

- Moritz Frenzel, Design Body Engineer, BMW

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