“Altair HyperWorks 2024 is the only platform offering a unified, modern user experience across any geometry, physics, and complexity and at every stage of the product development life cycle from design to in-service,” said James R. Scapa, chief executive officer, Altair.
HyperWorks 2024 enables the use of AI across every step of the product life cycle which means that embedded AI in design and simulation tools can be used to accelerate exploration, while engineer-friendly, HPC-fuelled workflows can be used to augment the human-AI relationship.
Altair HyperWorks 2024 gives users the ability to:
• Accelerate design exploration and iteration with generative design capabilities in Altair HyperMesh.
• Conduct thermal analysis in Altair SimLab through 'what-if' studies using real-world data from Altair physicsAI models to make design of experiments (DOE) more efficient.
• Rapidly predict behaviour with generative design in Altair Inspire to maximise efficiency in both design and manufacturing while ensuring top performance.
• Focus more on innovation, benefiting from dramatically faster training times and enhanced AI-powered capabilities. Engineers can train physicsAI models with a single click on Altair Drive utilising the scalable HPC and cloud resources of Altair One.
This eliminates infrastructure barriers and accelerates design exploration with advances in AI accessibility.
Through an AI-powered experience, productivity is enhanced by intuitive workflows, efficient design environments, game-changing photorealistic graphics for better visualisation, and a unified back-end data model, according to Altair.
With support for Python and C++, HyperWorks can provide seamless integration with more than 250 CAD systems, solvers, and file formats, removing interoperability bottlenecks while empowering engineers with extensive scripting capabilities to customise the platform and automate repetitive tasks.
Altair integrates digital twins and digital threads to create a digital engineering ecosystem, providing one source of truth that ensures engineers have access to the most accurate real-time data and models.
The latest updates to Altair Twin Activate have enhanced model accuracy and clarity and includes customisation and integration improvements that will help to speed up the transition from concept to reality.
Additionally, Altair’s Material Data Center augments the design process by offering more than 72,000 high-fidelity, CAE-ready material datasets, empowering alternative material exploration throughout the product development life cycle with one traceable digital thread.
Altair HyperWorks 2024 focuses on elevating design fidelity and in streamlining engineering workflows and offers greater integration and automation capabilities.
It includes:
• Enhanced productivity with Python API in HyperMesh, empowering engineers to automate routine tasks, tailor their CAE environment with custom plugins, integrate with other tools, and access a vast support network through the Python community.
• Accelerated electronics system design perfection from the start with SimLab. Through the Ultra Librarian integration, users get faster, more accurate 3D printed circuit board (PCB) modelling. Users can predict and enhance PCB lifespan with fatigue life simulations, analyze electric motors using advanced multiphysics analysis, and simulate diverse materials to understand fluid flow dynamics.
• Meshless ECAD simulation with Altair SimSolid transforming mechanical and electronics systems into smart, connected realities, from requirements to embedded systems, with new solver capabilities for multi-disciplinary electronics.
It enables users to transition from ECAD to simulation, optimising the analysis of complex PCB and integrated circuit (IC) models without the need for traditional meshing or design simplifications.
