Altair Releases Altair® HyperWorks® 2024
Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the release of Altair® HyperWorks® 2024, an advanced platform for AI-powered design and simulation. The new version enhances capabilities across product life cycles with improved AI integration, photorealistic graphics, and a unified data system.
Notable features include generative design in Altair® HyperMesh®, efficient thermal analysis with Altair® SimLab®, and single-click AI model training via Altair Drive. It supports Python and C++ for better integration and customization, providing interoperability with over 250 CAD systems.
Altair® Twin Activate® and Altair® Material Data Center™ enrich the digital engineering ecosystem, enhancing model accuracy and material dataset accessibility. The platform also strengthens mechanical and electronic system design, streamlining workflows and boosting productivity, positioning Altair HyperWorks 2024 as a leader in simulation-driven innovation.
- Release of Altair HyperWorks 2024 enhances AI-powered design and simulation capabilities.
- Improved photorealistic graphics and a unified back-end data system.
- Generative design capabilities in Altair HyperMesh accelerate design exploration.
- Efficient thermal analysis in Altair SimLab with physicsAI models.
- Single-click AI model training via Altair Drive using scalable HPC and cloud resources.
- Integration with 250+ CAD systems and support for Python and C++.
- Enhanced model accuracy and customization in Altair Twin Activate.
- Access to over 72,000 high-fidelity material datasets in Altair Material Data Center.
- Streamlined workflows and boosted productivity in mechanical and electronic system design.
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Insights
Altair HyperWorks 2024 marks a significant leap in the domain of AI-powered design and simulation. This release focuses on integrating AI at every stage of the product life cycle, which can boost efficiency and innovation. The emphasis on generative design capabilities and physics-based AI models will allow engineers to conduct more explorations with fewer iterations. Additionally, the integration of Python and C++ support and seamless interfacing with over 250 CAD systems and other tools ensures that workflow bottlenecks are minimized. Such integration can streamline processes and enable more comprehensive, customizable automation, which can be a game-changer for engineers. Furthermore, the introduction of photorealistic graphics for design visualization can provide deeper insights into project outcomes before they are physically realized, potentially saving time and resources. For investors, these enhancements suggest that Altair HyperWorks 2024 is designed to maintain its cutting-edge status while broadening its market appeal, which can translate to sustained or increased revenue streams over the long term.
In terms of market positioning, Altair HyperWorks 2024 appears poised to capitalize on the growing trend towards AI integration in engineering. With the global market for AI in engineering projected to grow substantially over the next few years, Altair’s enhancements in this release could capture a larger share of this expanding market. The software’s ability to offer a unified platform that spans various stages of product development gives it a competitive edge. This all-in-one approach can attract not only existing users but also new customers looking for a comprehensive solution without needing to invest in multiple disparate tools. Moreover, the focus on mechanical and electronics system design bridges a critical gap in comprehensive simulation environments, enabling more precise and streamlined engineering processes. Investors should note that the ability to handle both mechanical and electronic aspects under one umbrella can make Altair HyperWorks 2024 particularly attractive to industries that require integrated solutions, such as automotive and aerospace sectors, potentially driving higher adoption rates and revenue growth.
Latest enhancements solidify platform's status as the market's world-class environment for AI-powered simulation-driven innovation
"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, founder and chief executive officer, Altair. "With AI-embedded workflows, game-changing photorealistic graphics, and a unified back-end data system, Altair HyperWorks is the foundation upon which many of the world's most innovative digital engineering practices are being built."
AI-Powered Engineering and Business
Providing the data backbone essential for AI enterprises, Altair HyperWorks 2024 unleashes AI across every step of the product life cycle. Seamlessly embedded AI in design and simulation tools accelerates exploration, while engineer-friendly, HPC-fueled workflows augment the human-AI relationship. Altair HyperWorks 2024 deepens these capabilities, enhancing processes from design to in-service operations, giving users the ability to:
- Accelerate design exploration and iteration with generative design capabilities in Altair® HyperMesh®.
- Conduct effortless 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 behavior with generative design in Altair® Inspire™ to maximize 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 utilizing the scalable HPC and cloud resources of Altair One®. This eliminates infrastructure barriers and accelerates design exploration with advances in AI accessibility.
Leading the Engineering User Experience
Altair HyperWorks 2024 brings forth a paradigm shift in engineering. Through an AI-powered, modern experience, productivity is enhanced by intuitive workflows, efficient design environments, game-changing photorealistic graphics for better visualization, and a unified back-end data model. With support for Python and C++, Altair HyperWorks ensures seamless integration with more than
One Source of Truth: Digital Engineering
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® enhance models' accuracy and clarity and include customization and integration improvements that expedite the transition from concept to reality.
Additionally, Altair® 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.
Mechanical and Electronic System Design
Altair HyperWorks 2024 focuses on elevating design fidelity and streamlining engineering workflows with robust 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) modeling. 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 empowers users to seamlessly transition from ECAD to simulation, optimizing the analysis of complex PCB and integrated circuit (IC) models without the need for traditional meshing or design simplifications.
Simulation-Driven Design and Optimization
As the most comprehensive simulation-driven design solution for design, performance analysis, and manufacturability, Inspire reinforces its market-leading position. Starting with a sketch, users can build or edit geometries with parametric B-Rep solids, polyNURBS, facets, and implicit modeling. It features analysis tools for structural, fluid dynamics, and motion studies, complemented by designer-friendly computational physics for detailed analysis across various manufacturing processes. Inspire also integrates powerful technologies like generative design, meshless simulation, and physicsAI for rapid behavior prediction, maximizing design and manufacturing efficiency while ensuring top performance.
To learn more about Altair HyperWorks 2024, visit https://altair.com/hyperworks-2024. To view presentations from this year's ATCx AI for Engineers virtual event, visit https://events.altair.com/atcx-ai-for-engineers-2024/.
About Altair
Altair is a global leader in computational intelligence that provides software and cloud solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), data analytics, and AI. Altair enables organizations across all industries to compete more effectively and drive smarter decisions in an increasingly connected world – all while creating a greener, more sustainable future. To learn more, please visit www.altair.com.
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