Altair Inspire Studio Technology Preview

Photorealistic rendering has become a cornerstone for architectural visualization. Altair’s developers have collaborated with NVIDIA to leverage NVIDIA OptiX™ denoising technology to maximize the speed-up without compromising quality for both exterior and interior rendering scenes. We'll walk through some of the most recent benchmarks of Altair Thea Render™, showing performance gain on NVIDIA RTX hardware.

Presentation by Sergey Kutuev, Lyulka Design Bureau.

The presentation will demonstrate case studies performed by Lyulka Desigh Bureau enterprise with the application of Altair HyperWorks software products, such as HyperMesh and HyperView. Strength and optimization analysis carried out with OptiStruct solver for parts of a gas-turbine engine being investigated will be shown. Amphyon software from Altair Partner Alliance was used for simulation of the additive manufacturing process for the parts of an engine, as well for the deformation prediction. The simulation results obtained with Amphyon are compared with the scanned model of the manufactured part to demonstrate results correlation.

Presentation by Jean Thiriet, Thea Render.

Within the course of an architectural project, the meeting of client objectives, site constraints and the architect's ideas gradually shapes the future building.

At the heart of this creative process, a virtual model is used to bring together different elements of the reflection (handmade sketches, CAD drafts, etc.) into a coherent object. This model is refined many times as the project evolves, and is ultimately used as a support to create accurate images of it, at each step of its development.

Based on a set of projects from the Parisian architectural studio DTACC, this presentation will show how the Thea Render software occupies a central place, in both the design process and the communication phase, by allowing fast and precise photo-realistic representations of virtual models.

Presentation by Sylwester Szymanski, MOTH2.

Sylwester Symanski discusses the MOTH2 project, a 3-wheeled vehicle, and the use of Inspire and OptiStruct for topology optimization.

Design Review & Styling Seminar held during the 2018 Global ATC in Paris, France on October 18, 2018.

Design for additively made parts has become a very hot topic. Many engineers see the potential for topology optimization when designing ALM parts, but once they start the workflow, they tend to get bogged down in how to complete the process.

Additive manufacturing (AM) technology enables the possibility of realizing highly efficient, optimized structural components with configurations not achievable using conventional manufacturing methods.

Presentation by Alejandro Cervantes Herrera, Altair

Additive manufacturing (AM) technology enables the possibility of realizing highly efficient, optimized structural components with configurations not achievable using conventional manufacturing methods. The Altair and Solid Thinking toolsets provide advanced capabilities to design structural topologies to minimize weight and maximize other performance criteria. However, conventional manufacturing processes require application of design constraints, such as directional access for machining, in the optimization that limit the structural efficiency of the resulting design. AM can remove many of these constraints to allow for more efficient configurations under the applied loading conditions. Case studies show the potential to reduce weight up to 30% for components with applied bending and torsional loads by allowing increased complexity configurations that could only be manufactured additively.

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have progressed rapidly in the last years. Supported by the recent developments of design optimisation tools and manufacturing capabilities, components and parts produced using AM are emerging more and more into the focus of space industry. The aim of this presentation is to show why AM can be seen a promising manufacturing technique for space industry and in particular for satellite application? Opportunities and challenges that have to be faced to make 3D printed components “flying” on spacecraft are presented and discussed. The re-engineering and qualification approach of the already existing Antenna Support Bracket, that is part of the Sentinel-1 spacecraft, is discussed as a case study to bring this topic into the more tangible context of an industrial project.