Design for Additive Manufacturing with Altair Sulis
Create lightweight lattice structures and optimized geometries for advanced 3D printing workflows.
Overview
What is Altair Sulis?
A design tool built specifically for additive manufacturing and complex geometry creation.
Altair Sulis is a design-for-additive-manufacturing (DfAM) solution that enables engineers to create highly complex lattice structures and fluid flow systems for advanced 3D printing applications. Built with a specialized implicit geometry kernel, Sulis allows rapid generation of lightweight, optimized designs that go beyond traditional CAD limitations. Its automated workflows and real-time feedback help reduce manufacturing risks, accelerate design cycles, and produce print-ready components in minutes.
Core Features
Powerful tools to design, optimize, and prepare complex parts for additive manufacturing.
Lattice Design
Create and customize advanced lattice structures with a single click. Choose from multiple lattice types such as surface, strut, stochastic, or planar, and fine-tune properties like density, cell size, and material distribution to achieve lightweight, high-performance designs.
Implicit Geometry Modeling
Leverage implicit modeling technology to generate highly complex and organic geometries that traditional CAD cannot handle. Design at any scale with smooth transitions and high-resolution detail, ideal for advanced engineering applications.
Fluid & Thermal Channels
Design conformal cooling channels and complex fluid paths directly within your models. Use real-time feedback and automated adjustments to ensure channels are manufacturable and self-supporting, reducing the need for post-processing.
Advanced Capabilities
Detailed control and automation tools to design, refine, and validate additive-ready geometries.
One-Click Lattice Creation
Quickly generate lattice structures using predefined types or combine multiple styles within a single part for advanced designs.
Lattice Property Control
Adjust cell size, density, and grading across multiple axes to fine-tune mechanical performance and material usage.
Custom Unit Cells
Select from a wide library of unit cells or define your own to create tailored mechanical behaviors and metamaterials.
Real-Time Design Feedback
Edit and refine geometries dynamically with immediate visual feedback, enabling faster iteration and design validation.
Conformal Geometry
Apply lattice and flow structures over complex surfaces to improve efficiency, packing, and heat transfer performance.
Fluid Channel Design
Create spline-based and conformal flow paths, including helical channels, directly within your models.
Manufacturability Optimization
Automatically analyze and adapt designs to ensure components are self-supporting and ready for additive production.
Support
Expert Guidance from Certified Altair Partners
Get the most out of Altair Sulis with dedicated support, training, and implementation expertise.
Learn More About Altair Sulis
Explore technical insights and real-world applications of additive manufacturing design.
Frequently Asked Questions
Altair Sulis is a design-for-additive-manufacturing (DfAM) tool used to create complex lattice structures, fluid channels, and optimized geometries for 3D printing. It enables engineers to design parts that fully leverage additive manufacturing capabilities.
Unlike traditional CAD, Sulis uses implicit modeling and specialized workflows for additive manufacturing. This allows the creation of highly complex, lightweight, and organic geometries that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional tools.
Yes. Sulis includes manufacturability analysis and automated compensation tools that help ensure designs are self-supporting and optimized for printing, reducing errors and post-processing needs.
Sulis is widely used in industries such as aerospace, automotive, medical, and industrial manufacturing anywhere lightweight structures, heat transfer, or advanced geometries are required.
While prior experience helps, Sulis is designed with intuitive workflows and automation that make it accessible for both new and experienced users in additive manufacturing.
Yes. As an official Altair partner, TrueInsight offers onboarding, training, and expert consulting to help you implement Sulis effectively. Our team works closely with your organization to accelerate adoption, optimize workflows, and ensure you get maximum value from your investment.
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