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Optimizing Gravity Casting with Altair Inspire Cast: A Guide
January 13, 2023Gravity casting is one of the most popular methods for producing complex shaped metal parts and simulating the process u...
Creating Lattice Structures with Altair Sulis
January 10, 2023Altair Sulis, formerly Gen3D, was acquired by Altair last year to bolster the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DFAM) p...
Topology Optimization 101: Intro to Altair
January 04, 2023By now, most users know that topology optimization is a powerful design method that involves finding the optimal layout ...
Using Altair Compose to get Free Food
December 29, 2022I am always looking for applications for the wide variety of Altair tools in my everyday life. One such application I fo...
Simulating Home Alone Traps with Altair SimSolid
December 22, 2022As an 80s baby I grew up watching the holiday movie, Home Alone, almost every single Christmas season. I have continued ...
Answering Commonly Asked Altair HyperWorks Questions
December 14, 2022How much does Altair HyperWorks cost, is there a HyperWorks price list and can you explain the Altair Licensing Model? A...
The Altair Toolbox: 10 Essential Tools
December 07, 2022The Altair Engineering portfolio includes more than one hundred different software tools to solve thousands of engineeri...
Permanent Analysis of Control Arm with Altair OptiStruct
November 29, 2022Permanent set analysis is one of the standard load cases in the auto industry which helps determine the max load the par...
Flex Body Generation for Motion, Simplified with Inspire
November 21, 2022Flexible bodies in motion analysis allow for a more accurate analysis in a mechanism where flexibility of a body influen...
PCB Thermal Analysis with Altair
November 16, 2022PCB Thermal Analysis Thermal Management is vital for electronics durability and performance. Electronic components have ...
How to Shell a PolyNURBS Solid in Altair Inspire 2022
September 16, 2022How to Shell a PolyNURBS Solid in Altair Inspire 2022 PolyNURBS is one of the more powerful features in Altair Inspire. ...
Differentiating Altair PollEx and PollEx for ECAD
August 18, 2022In the last two years, we have seen a trend of more customers interested in Altair PollEx for printed circuit board (PCB...
Comparing Altair Inspire, SimSolid and SimLab
July 08, 2022When would I use Inspire vs SimSolid vs SimLab? Altair has many capable tools in its structural engineering suites, and ...
How to Restrict Software Feature Access via Altair One
July 05, 2022One of the most common questions I hear from CAD/CAE admins, is how they can control licenses for their network pool to ...
SimLab: Meshing for Multiphysics
May 23, 2022CAD users love simulation tools that are built into their CAD design tool. This is for many reasons, but one main reason...
How to Borrow/Checkout an Altair License
May 03, 2022One of the most frequent questions I receive in support is: “How do I borrow a license from my license Pool?”. Borrowing...
Altair SimSolid: Working with Contacts
March 13, 2022Altair SimSolid is a structural simulation that runs its calculation based on original CAD geometry. The geometry does n...
Behind the Scenes: Altair Inspire Cast Meshing with SimLab
March 13, 2022When running a metal casting simulation using Altair Inspire Cast, the model needs to be broken up into simple pieces th...
Altair Inspire Cast Components: Chiller
March 13, 2022Altair Inspire Cast features many component types that you can include in your casting simulation. One component that ca...
Blow Molding Simulation using Radioss Solver with AMS
March 13, 2022The aim of this study is to explain high-quality time step control i.e. Advanced Mass Scaling (AMS), through an example ...