Evaluate the Dynamic Behavior of Complex Mechanical Systems

Learn how Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence can help you generate better design and reduce time to market and explore your design parameters. In the webinar, using Altair HyperWorks' Design Explorer, an end-to-end workflow for real-time performance prediction you will learn how the convergence of traditional CAE and artificial intelligence enables engineers to explore and optimize their product performance and robustness.

Altair Enlighten Award winners share their journey of innovation to develop award-winning technology solutions that have significantly advanced lightweighting and sustainability for vehicles. · How does building lighter vehicles impact the challenge of meeting emission targets? · What is the value of lightweighting for e-mobility beyond the extended range? · What are some of the latest trends for Lightweight Design? · Which materials and production processes allow for lighter and sustainable components? · What is the fundamental significance of sustainable lightweight construction, in view of climate change and emission limits? · What are the sustainability initiatives driving the trends of the future?

When performing CFD analysis, model preparation is a hugely time consuming activity but necessary to achieve good quality results. For an efficient CFD analysis process, having the latest pre-processing tools is a must. This webinar, featuring the UK's leading CFD consultancy TotalSim, demonstrates how the latest model build technologies can drastically accelerate your external aerodynamics programmes, freeing up engineers' time to provide design insight and enhance performance, instead of endlessly refining meshes. This presentation focuses on TotalSim's deployment of the industry standard pre-processor, Altair HyperWorks, which comes equipped with a full suite of tools for CFD meshing and model set-up. It covers best practices for geometry preparation as well as tips on how to get the most out of HyperWorks and achieve significant time savings. Speaker: George Maxted, CFD Engineer, TotalSim Ltd. Duration: 57 minutes

Engineers and Designers are under constant pressure to lightweight components, reduce cost, improve quality and increase the throughput of manufacturing. As additive manufacturing (AM) has become more widely adopted, there has been the promise of being able to take full advantage of weight saving opportunities offered by topology optimization and the freedom of geometry offered by AM. The reality is that design, manufacturing and geometry constraints still exist and vary dependent on the AM technology utilized.

Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for several subtractive and additive manufacturing processes, including casting, injection molding, metal forming, extrusion, and 3d-printing. In this session, users will learn how to validate designs early in the manufacturing process with the simplicity and affordability of the Inspire family of products.

Applied early in the product development lifecycle, Altair® Inspire™ accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies. Powered by Altair OptiStruct®, the industry standard for topology optimization, Inspire provides a simple, physics-based workflow for generative design of lightweight, manufacturable products. In this session, you will learn about different topology options including optimization objectives, stress and displacement constraints, manufacturable parameters, and design interpretation with PolyNURBS.

Altair simulation-driven design changed product development forever, enabling engineers to reduce design iterations and prototype testing. Discover how Altair® Inspire™ enables rapid design iterations through simplified modeling workflows to help deliver manufacturable, optimal designs early. Investigate structural and modal analysis on a model and visualize displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, tension and compression, von Mises stress, and major principal stress with speed and accuracy.

During this webinar, we will showcase a unique and game-changing simulation technology for structural analysis that can augment and complement established design and PLM processes. Built from the ground up to handle large, complex models, Altair SimSolid provides fast and accurate simulation results – unmatched in the industry – to drive early and timely design decisions.

An important and highly time-consuming step of the CAE model build process is defining which parts of the model are fastened to each other and the method used, be it welds, bolts, adhesives and more. In this webinar we explore how Altair’s user-friendly connectors workflow can rapidly accelerate the process of creating, visualising and editing connections between parts and subsystems in a highly automated, repeatable and reusable way.

Contents:
- Introduction
- Connectors: controls, browser, workflows, and attachments
- Demo example
- Q&A

Duration: 53 minutes

Meshing is a time-consuming process yet critical to obtain high-quality results. In this webinar we introduce Altair’s automated meshing technologies and end-to-end workflows for meshing of complex parts.

Contents:
- Introduction to Altair
- Automated Meshing in Altair Hyperworks: BatchMesher, Rebuild, Midmesh, Replicate
- Summary
- Q&A

Duration: 55 minutes

Engineers are working with increasingly large and intricate models with different variants. In this webinar we look at how you can organize and manage parts with different configurations easily using Altair’s Part Browser, working from a common model that can be used by multiple teams, including crash and NVH, in parallel. We also introduce Altair Model Libraries and show how they enable distribution of tasks and collaboration between teams both local and remote.

Contents:
- Model Build & Assembly Workflow Overview
- Parts: Part Browser, Parts representations, revisions and configurations
- Subsystems
- Summary
- Q&A

Duration: 60 minutes

The latest HyperWorks® 2021 provides easy-to-learn, effective workflows that leverage domain knowledge and increase team productivity, enabling the efficient development of today’s increasingly complex and connected products.

Intuitive direct modelling for geometry creation and editing, mid-surface extraction, surface and mid-meshing, and mesh quality correction, combined with efficient assembly management provide all the capabilities required for fast, accurate model creation and evaluation of design alternatives and product variants in less time.

Altair has been one of the leading provider of simulation tools since the company was established over 30 years ago. Since acquiring SimSolid, we have seen a paradigm shift in structural simulation with many of our customers. An easy learning curve, a simple yet robust process enables you to gain better fidelity in your design and time saving with SimSolid! Watch our SimSolid webinar recording, where we will cover why companies need to integrate this technology into their product development processes, what is behind this game-changing technology and how companies such as Renault, Whirlpool, and National Oilwell Varco have successfully adopted Simsolid to help save time.

Discover The New Altair HyperWorks 2021 Transition to New User Experience

Advancements in 3D printing and design optimization for additive manufacturing (AM) is changing the industry’s overall approach to product design. This webinar features Altair Inspire™ a solution for designing parts through additive manufacturing and Amphyon, a complementary partner tool available through the Altair Partner Alliance. Through a combined workflow we’ll demonstrate an alternate and more efficient approach towards generative design. Instead of manufacturing the part, a process simulation in Amphyon is conducted to predict the impact of the AM process to the design. This feedback is then used to optimize design further and improve the manufacturing process by essentially fixing the defects early in the design process.

המיט-אפ מקוון עם המומחים בתחומי האופטימיזציה הטופולוגית התקיים ביום רביעי 25 לנובמבר. רוב עלות המוצר נקבעת בשלבים הראשונים של התכן; הבעיה שבשלבים אלו הידע על התנהגות החלק במוצר היא בסיסית, ובמיוחד אופן השתלבותו הפונקציונלי. השימוש באופטימיזציה טופולוגית מספקת למתכנן בין-היתר כלי איכותי המאפשר לבצע את התכן על בסיס נקודת העבודה האופטימלית. האופטימיזציה הטופולוגית תורמת להבנת התנהגות החלק במצבים שהאינטואיציה ואפילו הניסיון ההנדסי איננו יכולה לחזות. השימוש באופטימיזציה הטופולוגית חוסך סבבי תכן ומאפשרת לבחון/לבחור את טכנולוגיית הייצור. אם בתכן 'מסורתי' המתכנן יוצר את גיאומטריית המבנה ובודק עמידה בדרישות בתכן, בתכן מבוסס אופטימיזציה טופולוגית המתכנן מגדיר את האילוצים והיעדים ומקבל את המבנה האופטימלי. מסתבר שהשקעה של זמן מועט בביצוע האופטימיזציה הטופולוגית בשלב הראשוני של התכן חוסכת זמן וכסף רב. האופטימיזציה משמשת דה-פאקטו כ'מכונת קונספטים' עוד לפני תחילת ביצוע התכן. ההרצאה תסקור ותדגים את השימוש בגישה בתהליכי הפיתוח ברפאל באמצעות תוכנת INSPIRE .

Designing consumer electronics for mass production requires a team of experts focusing on various aspects of design and manufacturing process. With a fragmented engineering process, exchange of models and information can cost valuable time in a competitive landscape. This webinar presents Altair’s unique Simulation Driven Design platform will shorten your design cycle, time which is pivotal to a company’s success.

Consumer Electronics products are getting more complex every day. This often requires more physics to be addressed during the design phase, while the development cycles are getting shorter. This webinar presents Altair’s workflow to enable simulation of structural, thermal, acoustics and fatigue properties in an integrated Multiphysics environment.

ABB, MX3D, and Altair demonstrate how Industry 4.0 will deliver customized manufacturing equipment.

Altair Expert CAE platform includes high end CAE tools for CAE experts to any simulation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA) or electromagnetics are only a few examples which needs your business might have. In this webinar, you learnt how Altair linked the two different worlds of designers and CAE specialists in a smart way within the same intuitive easy GUI on the same database. Both worlds can work on the same database with no need to do work twice or lose information in the development process.

Altair Inspire is an easy-to-use rapid simulation solution for design engineers. It enhances the concept development process by enabling simulation-driven design to increase your product’s efficiency, strength and manufacturability. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Polynurb Technology had been used to redesign optimized structures inuitive and fast. The geometry had been used for notch stress optimization before the we see how the manufacturability will be validated for a 3D printer and casting design.

Altair Inspire Topology Optimization is the world's leading tool for topology optimization, including advanced manufacturing constraints to create production-ready solutions to real-world challenges. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Optimization technologies provides the foundation on which our customers are able to develop with an easy and intuitive toolchain completely new ways to solve their daily challenges. In terms of component design and manufacturing processes.

Altair Inspire Motion is a dedicated multi-body dynamics (MBD) tool with a robust contact algorithm. It is capable of handling systems with large degrees of freedom and offers a reliable and fast solution. In this webinar, we showed how Altair Inspire Motion had been used to determine loads in the system and is seamlessly coupled with other Altair modeling tools like Altair Inspire Structure and Altair Activate for control simulation to create dynamic motion analyses of complex mechanisms and use these dynamic loads as load cases for optimization.

Medical devices of all kinds must be designed to withstand the structural and operational requirements associated with normal use, drop, and misuse, all while balancing weight and cost considerations. This webinar presents Altair’s workflow to enable simulation of structural, thermal, and fluid properties coupled with electromagnetics, and mechatronics in an integrated Multiphysics environment.

With Altair Inspire Motion we can link components of a mechanism together using various types of joints and contacts to simulate the real-world connections in an assembly.

This webinar will take you through the concept and roadmap phase, all the way to the manufacturing process - all within Altair Inspire and Inspire Print 3D, a revolutionary generative design and 3D printing simulation environment that solves real world production challenges. Learn how to rapidly visualize production defects, rectify problems to avoid downstream production issues, save product weight, reduce material consumption and cost all through the use of intelligent complementary design technologies.

Walk Through the Journey of Advanced Composites with Altair

Watch the on-demand recordings and find out how Altair's composites solutions can help you design and analyze structures ready for production.

In this demonstration, you will learn about efficient design and post-processing of complex laminated composite structures.

In this demonstration we show the full process of manufacturing injection molded parts to component performance in virtual process. The outcome is injection molded parts with desired mechanical performance with minimal experimental testing.

Availability of material data is a major bottleneck in simulating composite structures. Material suppliers’ datasheets or handbook values do not represent the actual properties resulting from the company’s manufacturing processes. On the other hand, doing a complete material characterization through a test campaign is very costly and time consuming. To overcome these issues, accurate multiscale simulation with predictive capability, as provided by Altair Multiscale Designer, can be used in combination with a limited set of physical tests for developing accurate material models. Further, the accurate modeling of the composite nonlinear and failure behavior through the multiscale approach brings the accuracy of composite structural simulations to a new level.

Composite Pressure Vessels (CPV) play an important role in the emerging market for the fuel cell electric vehicles, but there are also numerous more traditional application areas for CPVs. The filament winding process used for the manufacturing of CPVs ties the possible fiber paths to the manufacturing process. Hence, in the design and analysis of CPVs it is important to include both the manufacturing and structural simulation. The webinar shows how Altair software interface with third-party filament winding simulation software to create CPV structural models using different level of details according to analysis needs. The use of multiscale material modeling provides means for accurate damage and failure predictions of CPVs.

3D printed lattice structures increase the design freedom in areas of the design where, for example, the full stiffness of the material is not needed, or a specific anisotropic material behavior is beneficial. At the same time the high geometric complexity on a scale below the standard modelling element size makes it extremely difficult to include all anisotropic effects in the standard CAE model and keep the same numeric efficiency together with the same accuracy of results. Using multiscale approaches like Altair Multiscale Designer to link microscale geometric features with a standard macro CAE model combines both scales in a highly efficient way and enables the numeric efficient and highly accurate simulation of lattice structures on component and assembly level.

The next generation HyperWorks experience was created to enable teams to move from physics to physics, domain to domain or even create reports without ever leaving their simulation model. Every tool in the suite delivers a solution-specific workflow with a meticulously designed and discoverable user-interface, differentiated for each user profile, but still familiar across the toolset. Altair started delivering on this vision with the initial release of Inspire and has continued to bring more and more functionality to its customers with each release. Now, the next generation HyperMesh provides a modern environment for meshing, modeling, and morphing with no loss of existing functionality for long-term customers. Learn about the reimagining of Altair HyperMesh and how your product development can benefit today. The presentation will showcase: -Brand new workflows for geometry recreation and editing -Midmeshing and interactive batch meshing -Free direct morphing -Parts and reps management -Concept design iteration

In this webinar, we address challenges common to conceptual modeling engineers and the powerful new time-saving features and workflows available in the new Altair HyperWorks user experience.

A good Design is not complete unless it meets desired performance and qualifies for efficient manufacturing. Design of sheet-metal components demand the following, From a Design perspective - if sheet-metal can be used for intended design, their sizing & shape, choice of material, weight and cost. From Manufacturability perspective - manufacturing feasibility of the designed shape, allowable thinning and wrinkling limits, addressing process constrains and importantly forming feasibility. Leveraging Simulation to drive the design as it unfolds at the concept generation stage, helps design engineers to accrue downstream benefits upfront.

Learn about the new features and workflows available in HyperMesh 2019 for meshing and geometry

Join Altair CTO James Dagg as he introduces Altair HyperWorks 2019, the most comprehensive open simulation platform for design and engineering. The updated platform offers customers the ability to design and optimize connected, high-performing, weigh-efficient and innovative products throughout the entire product development process; from idea to production.

Using Topology Optimization to Create Manufacturable Product Designs Generative design is one of the hottest buzzwords in the product development world. You've seen the organic structures and promises of material reduction and cost savings, but how and when do you apply these principals to your design process, and how to you ensure that those designs can actually be manufactured? Find out how manufacturers like American Axle are leveraging generative design to improve real-world, in-service products using both traditional and advanced manufacturing processes.

Driving designs that are cognizant of the downstream manufacturing processes Increasing manufacturing costs and stiff competition coupled with low profit margins are posing tremendous challenges to extrusion companies, especially automotive and aerospace industries. One way the leading companies stay ahead of the competition is by reducing the product development time and production costs through virtual testing. Design engineers and analysts use CAE software to analyze and validate die designs and thereby reduce/eliminate costly die trials. This webinar explains how extrusion simulation framework provides an easy to use CAE environment to: - Validate extrusion die designs - Optimize process conditions - Identify potential defects and correct them before becoming critical problems

How to use Inspire for Motion Simulation - Webinar Recording and Training Material