Simulation-Driven Design of Sheet-Metal Components

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.

The motion module included in Altair® Inspire™ enables engineers to evaluate the dynamic response of products and optimize their performance. Dynamic motions of complex systems are easily generated, automatically identifying contacts, joints, springs, and dampers. Motors and actuators can be added and tuned interactively. In this session, you will learn how to simulate complex mechanisms, extract loads, and run analysis and optimization on individual mechanical components.  

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.

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

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.

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 stents are a lifeline for patients with cardiovascular illness and disease. Device manufacturers are required to dedicate large amounts of time and expense to clinical tests to validate safety and performance claims. Simulation can speed up these trials by satisfying the testing of variables virtually. This webinar presents Altair’s process for fast and intelligent stent optimization by coupling simulation, Design of Experiments (DOE) and machine learning algorithm to generate an analytical model.

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.

Leading design firms join Altair to discuss high-fidelity simulation solutions for all experience levels to realize efficiency gains up to 40%. Today, architectural design firms face two primary and often conflicting challenges: increased project complexity and compressed delivery schedules. Due to the large scale nature of AEC projects, frequent change orders, and on-time delivery pressure, more often than not the ability to use traditional simulation methods for design guidance and validation is simply time and resource prohibitive. This situation is further exacerbated when trying to achieve an aggressive design aesthetic, working with new materials, and balancing form and function with sustainability initiatives and construction safety standards. Recent user experience advancements and the introduction of novel simulation technologies now enable a broader community of designers and civil engineers to confidently and rapidly apply simulation earlier and throughout AEC projects. This webinar will explore this transformational shift and its positive business impact on project timing and costs through the lens of leading AEC design firms and thought leaders at Altair.

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.

The Aero Utility tools available under User Profile>Engineering Tools>Aerospace options enables Aerospace engineers with unique modelling capabilties required in building Aero models. In this Webinar, we will explore a few of those utilities viz Airframe meshing, Composites Material Orientations, Compare FE contents and so on.

This is an introductory course for using HyperMesh CFD to create and set up finite element (CFD) models for CFD analysis. A combination of lectures and exercises will familiarize students with the HyperMesh environment, process, and suite of tools needed to start using HyperMesh in their work.

The tool allows you to alter finite element models while keeping mesh distortions to a minimum. HyperMorph can be used to: • Change the profile and the dimensions of your mesh • Map an existing mesh onto a new geometry, and • Create shape variables that can be used for optimization

The process would help Engineers to build and manage detailed FE models for multiple domains which involves part level model building and assembly, representation and configuration management. The structure can be shared easily with PLM, PDM or CAD systems.

This tool allows engineering analysts to validate CAD models received from the design teams, automatically identifying potential issues that could slow down the pre-processing stage of the simulation life cycle. The solution identifies part intersections, missing welds and incorrect bolt-nut positions on an entire assembly structure and generates comprehensive reports.

Supported by the streamlined, intuitive workflows in HyperMesh, running nonlinear analysis in OptiStruct is easier and more powerful than ever. Nonlinear explicit analysis is now supported, enabling simulation of drop tests, impact analysis, and more. Check out this webinar to see how Altair’s unified modeling and simulation platform can eliminate tedious meshing tasks and accelerate your nonlinear analysis processes. In this webinar, we'll demo 5 different car door abuse use-cases, solving using linear dynamics, nonlinear quasi-static implicit, and nonlinear explicit dynamics analysis in OptiStruct.

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.

This webinar, presented jointly between Altair and the UK's leading CFD consultancy, TotalSim, demonstrated how the latest model build technologies can drastically accelerate your external aerodynamics programmes, freeing up Engineers' time to provide design insight and enhance performance, not stuck endlessly refining meshes.

As the use of 3D data throughout the produce lifecycle broadens, it is ever more essential to prepare high-quality 3D CAD geometry models to streamline the entire simulation process. CADdoctor is a tool to streamline CAD geometry preparation to make the data suitable for the HyperMesh simulation process. This helps to achieve reducing your simulation lead time and improving the accuracy of the simulation result. This presentation will be an introduction to one of the leading software on the Altair Partner Alliance and how this software has been benefitting users throughout the globe.

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

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

Positive destinations of leavers is a key metric for any University. A major aspect in achieving this metric is to successfully develop industry ready graduates, possessing a well-proportioned balance between hands-on simulation/software experience, practical skills and a robust theoretical foundation. Based on Christophe's personal experiences of teaching Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and optimisation techniques to mechanical, automotive and aerospace engineering students, this presentation will discuss some of these metrics in greater detail, including: - The importance of collaboration between academia, industry and software suppliers. - Strategies for software implementation into undergraduate teaching. - Examples of success and perhaps some of lesser successful implementation. - The changing landscape of student expectations and previous experience. - Continuation into taught and research postgraduate studies

Given EVs are gaining momentum and the recent Govt. of India’s strict localization norms in EVs to avail incentives, Altair announces a 3-part webinar series to introduce its powerful and most comprehensive industry solution set for E-mobility from concept till end use. Open to startups, OEM and supplier alike, we invite you to join our 3-part live webinar series. We will discuss the various challenges in EV systems and how Altair solutions play an important role in the design & development stage. Namely, how you can cut down development time and cost while improving your designs, how you can rapidly prototype your ideas, tame the complexities involved in a highly complex system and lots more. We will highlight some unique challenges for EVs specific to India and discuss how to address them.

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

High level, Matrix-based Numerical computing language & unified programming environment for all types of math from solving matrix analysis, differential equations signal analysis and control systems. It is an integrated HyperWorks post processing tool.

This webinar is about simulating the draping of the radome with different fabric pattern and choose the best. The choice of the best pattern will be based on the draping results, the fabric aspect, the fiber orientation, and if possible, on electromagnetic performance. The webinar will be based on Altair’s Aero Wing concept, and will present KTex Family of tools created by CEDREM.

The additive manufacturing industry continues to grow as serial manufacturing applications across many sectors are realized. Topology optimization and generative design software further exploit the benefits and capacity of additive manufacturing by generating designs that increase function and reduce material, weight, design time, and cost.