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Simulation-Driven Design

Altair, the leader in optimization and generative design, has applied its deeply rooted expertise in manufacturing process simulation to create a best-in-class, end-to-end simulation-driven design solution. Integrated within the Altair® HyperWorks® platform, users are guided from ideation and design creation to manufacturing.

By blending familiar CAD tools with advanced geometry creation, powerful simulation, and designer-friendly computational physics, we empower users to experience total design freedom from the start – all within a single, unified environment. Quickly collaborate, evaluate, and create designs that are not just ready for manufacturing, but are optimized and verified for performance.

Simulate at the Speed of Design

Use Altair's simulation technology to transform your product development process.

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Sketch to Simulation

Start with a sketch and watch products come to life. Whether creating geometry from scratch or importing CAD models, the process is seamless from concept to performance verification and manufacturing simulation. With intuitive tools and complete construction history at every step, explore parametric studies, optimize designs, and generate lifelike, photorealistic renderings. Accelerate innovation, streamline collaboration, and experience the unmatched power of simulation-driven design.

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Design Freedom from the Start

Break free from CAD limitations with advanced geometry creation capabilities that support all types of representations, from ordinary to extremely complex structures. With support for boundary representation (BRep), PolyNURBS, facets, and implicit geometry engines, users can create intricate shapes and innovative lattice structures, ready for additive manufacturing as well as all traditional manufacturing processes.

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Physics-Driven Performance

Democratizing simulation, Altair's designer-friendly computational physics capabilities empower designers to rapidly verify and optimize structural, fluid flow, and motion dynamics early in the design process, starting at the assembly level. From concept to production, each design can be optimized for performance and manufactured with confidence. From stiffness and weight optimization to 3D printing and casting, organizations can eliminate common errors and achieve flawless production.

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Market-Leading Generative Design and Optimization

Altair, a pioneer in AI-powered design exploration and generative design, has been setting the industry standard for topology, topography, shape, and lattice optimization for over three decades. Our technology ensures that designs are not only innovative but also practical, sustainable, and ready for manufacturing.

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Manufacturing Confidence from the Start

Reduce prototypes and avoid costly mistakes and/or expensive tooling rework by simulating manufacturing processes early in design. Altair’s unmatched expertise in manufacturing process simulation covers every critical aspect, from injection molding and stamping to casting, extrusion, reactive foaming, and 3D printing.

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Deeply Rooted Expertise in Manufacturing Digital Twins

We don’t just simulate – we help companies integrate post-manufacturing effects directly into structural models, creating digital twins that accurately reflect real-world conditions. This ensures every design is optimized for both performance and manufacturability, bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds.

Altair's customers appreciate our extensive range of on-demand and reliable, proven tools, combined with fast-track data management and access to HPC resources to make their businesses profitable beyond Industry 4.0.

Did you know the Altair Partner Alliance gives you access to 75+ additional solutions?

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Transforming Meshless Simulation Software

Experience a true meshless solution where your CAD model is your simulation model. Analyze and simulate directly on full-fidelity CAD assemblies with absolute precision—no simplification or meshing required.

Our game-changing, multi-disciplinary structural, dynamics, thermal, and fatigue analysis software enables faster, more accurate design development. Explore multiple design iterations in seconds, compare options early in the process, and make confident decisions with unmatched speed and accuracy.

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Altair Inspire: Accelerate Simulation-driven Design

Altair Inspire is an intuitive, best-in-class solution that accelerates simulation-driven design from concept to reality, significantly reducing time to market. By streamlining performance and manufacturability early in the design process, Inspire empowers users to develop and manufacture high-performance products in a single, unified environment.

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Looking to reduce development time and lower costs? Hear from industry experts on how they’re able to overcome their design challenges.

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Generative Design Competitive Ranking by ABI Research

Generative Design Competitive Ranking by ABI Research

This study assesses and compares nine suppliers of generative design software to offer an unbiased assessment and ranking Only platforms with a dedicated market focus on industrial and manufacturing were considered.

This report sets out the market positioning of each profiled company leader, mainstream, and followers ABI Research developed this Competitive Assessment (to offer a comparative assessment and ranking of the following suppliers of generative design software Altair, Ansys, Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes Hexagon, nTopology ParaMatters PTC, and Siemens.

Altair was ranked Overall Leader, Top Innovator, and Top Implementer.

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Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing: How to Innovate with Speed

One of the challenges manufacturers face today is accelerating design and engineering processes while maintaining accuracy and efficiency throughout the product life cycle. From aerospace and defense to food and beverage production and beyond, it’s common

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