For manufacturers and product developers in all industries, the ultimate goal is to create better products faster in the most cost-efficient manner. The challenges of product development are more complex than ever. In order to design and optimize the connected, high-performing, weight-efficient and innovative products customers demand, we see the need to model products in their real-world environment, which means multiple physics, often at mixed-fidelity, working in concert to give you an accurate and holistic picture of your product’s performance.

So, how do you achieve this? How do you simplify the complexity of your product development process to improve profitability and performance?

Responding to these questions has been our singular focus, and that’s why we’re excited to unveil our most powerful and comprehensive suite of Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) solutions ever, Altair HyperWorksTM 2019.

Solutions for every stage of product development
Altair HyperWorks offers solutions for all engineers – from model-based systems design and early geometry ideation, to detailed multiphysics simulation and optimization. This release further delivers on the promise of simulation driven design, building more physics-based design solutions to deliver the interconnected products your customers demand.

We want our customers to explore more ideas, better understand their designs and improve profitability. To achieve this, a focus of development for HyperWorks 2019 was increased solve speed and functionality across our software for structural (OptiStruct, SimSolid, Radioss), fluids (AcuSolve, ultraFluidx, nanoFluidx), electromagnetic (Flux, Feko, Winprop) and systems design (MotionSolve, Compose, Activate, Embed).

More optimization and physics workflows
The suite’s broad workflow implementations make it quick and easy for design engineers and part-time analysts to drive more of your product design with optimization. Simulation experts can draw upon the advanced features of HyperWorks including multiphysics simulations of interacting structural, mechanical, thermal, electromagnetic and fluid behavior.

Altair OptiStruct has been the leading generative design tool for over two decades. Not only does it enable the optimization of topology, composites, mechanisms and additive manufacturing, but it is a modern solver for all of your linear and non-linear structural analysis. Regardless of how your product is produced OptiStruct can enhance creativity by proposing forms that are as manufacturable as they are efficient and innovative. The OptiStruct 2019 solver runs faster than ever on CPUs or NVIDIA GPUs to more efficiently simulate product strength, stiffness, durability, large displacements, vibration, acoustic and heat transfer, with built-in Multiphysics capability.

HyperMesh 2019 creates the best meshes yet for more accurate simulations and enables easier modeling of complex castings and injection molded parts. The model build and assembly tools enable CAE to keep pace with design through rapid part and assembly swapping with management of multiple configurations.

Altair SimLab is an intuitive and easy to learn workflow platform for simulating multiphysics problems. It allows engineers and designers to progress from CAD geometry to complex analysis in minutes with process automation for increased productivity.

Enhanced user experience
Your designers, engineers and CAE specialists can now work within a single intuitive and consistent user-experience. With each release of the HyperWorks more workflows employ this same user experience.

In this release HyperWorks X is included with a new set of workflows for geometry creation, editing, morphing and meshing employing this same user experience. Both the new and established HyperWorks desktop experiences will be available with no loss of existing functionality, allowing customers to transition on their own timeline.

The easy-to-learn mesh morphing features of HyperWorks X will bring efficiency to teams working on simulation models early in product development. These workflows enable concept level changes to be made directly on an existing FEA model bypassing CAD generation and accelerating decision making.

New Tools for both experts and part-time analysts
Altair SimSolid makes designers and engineers more productive by performing structural analysis on original, un-simplified CAD assemblies in seconds to minutes. It provides easy structural simulation for large assemblies and complex geometries with accurate results produced with revolutionary speed.

Altair HyperLife enables customers to quickly understand potential durability issues through an easy-to-learn solution for fatigue life under static and transient loading. This is a guided solver-neutral workflow for a wide range of industrial applications and works with major FEA tools.

Access to the entire suite
HyperWorks provides value and flexibility through a patented, units-based licensing system. HyperWorks Units allows metered usage of our entire suite of products and an expanding library of Altair Partner Alliance solutions. We have revolutionized the way you obtain software by eliminating the hurdles that prevent you from getting the tools you need.