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Radioss 2019/2019.1 Overview

Watch this video to see the new features available in the Radioss 2019 and 2019.1 releases.

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Altair Inspire - Fit PolyNURBS

The new Fit PolyNURBS feature allows you to automatically wrap optimization results with PolyNURBS. This option can be found on the optimization Shape Explorer.

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Altair Inspire - Spot Welds

With Altair Inspire you can easily create spot welds for sheet metal parts design

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Altair Inspire Load Case Tables

Easily organize and manage all boundary conditions with load case tables

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Altair Inspire - Friction in Joints

Friction can now be considered in setting up dynamic motions

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Altair Inspire - Suppress/Unsuppress Entities

Joints, fasteners, and motion entities (for example, springs or motion contacts) can now be suppressed. This feature is useful for studying the effects of a given entity on system behavior or when debugging a model

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Altair Inspire Overhang Shape Controls

Optimal lightweight designs can be defined in Altair Inspire taking in account several constraints for additive and traditional manufacturing processes, including the overhang angle for 3D printed parts.

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Altair MotionSolve New Feature Overview

View a high level overview of the new features available within MotionSolve 2019.

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MotionSolve - Durability & Comfort Simulations

Our goal was to help engineers developing ground vehicles to determine fatigue life of components and improve driver comfort. Vehicle-specific simulation events have been added or streamlined to closely mimic standard physical tests performed in a lab (such as with N-post shakers) or on a test track.

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MotionSolve Examples Library

The MotionSolve examples library has been added to provide users with resources to learn MotionSolve on real world type models.

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MotionSolve - General Machinery Solutions

Our goal was to help users more easily build and simulate complex systems. To this end, we have added a library of higher-level modeling elements including cables, pulleys, and winches; linear actuators, struts, & rods; as well as gears and cams – obviating the need for users to separately define parts, markers, and joints for these elements.

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MotionSolve - Generic Modeling Improvements

Many other enhancements in this release were designed to enable users to assemble and solve models to evaluate product behavior much faster, especially for vehicle simulations.

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MotionSolve - System Design Solutions

Much of the MotionSolve and MotionView multi-body modeling and simulation technology has been incorporated into Inspire Motion to enable system design closely tied to 3D CAD geometry.

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Altair HyperStudy New Feature Overview

View a high level overview of the new features available within HyperMesh 2019.

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Altair HyperStudy Bubbles Plot

Bubble plots can be used to view additional information in a scatter plot window.

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Altair HyperStudy FAST Fit Method and Lookup Model Type

FAST automatically builds the best fitting functions. To accomplish this, HyperStudy is automatically testing all the methods available and their settings to figure out the most appropriate method to obtain the best quality fit for each approximated function.

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Altair HyperStudy Model Linking

Workflow and user interface changes have been made to the Model Resources dialog to streamline the experience by providing a clearer visual representation of the run’s directory structure. This will make setup and review more intuitive.

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Altair HyperStudy System Reliability Optimization (SRO) Method

System Reliability Optimization (SRO) is a new, highly efficient reliability based design optimization (RBDO) method. This new method requires a reduced number of runs, and allows reliability constraints to be applied to not just the individual failure constraints but to the overall system reliability.

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Altair HyperLife New Feature Overview

HyperLife is a new Fatigue application that is being released with version 2019. See an overview of this new product and the features it contains.

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Altair HyperLife Execute the Fatigue Setup

The Evaluate tool allows you to run the Fatigue Analysis, and subsequently load your results in the Results Explorer to visualize the Damage and Number of Cycles to Failure contour.

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Altair HyperLife Creating Fatigue Events

The Load Map tool serves as a typical Signal processing utility where you can import repetitive load history files. You can also create a simple constant amplitude or block loading cycles with a single click.

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Altair HyperLife Fatigue Modules Selection

A collated icon enables you to choose the type of fatigue analysis to be run.

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Altair HyperLife Material Assignment

The Material tool allows you to create, store, and manage the Fatigue material property assigned to parts. This tool is preloaded with a library of Fatigue material properties, from which you can choose from. You can also load materials from your own database or create new materials in the session.

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Altair HyperLife Stress Life Analysis

Uniaxial and Multiaxial assessment options with multiple Mean stress correction theories. Various stress combination methods are available for Uniaxial assessment. Critical plane implementation for Multiaxial assessment.

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Altair HyperLife Seam Weld Fatigue Analysis

Structural stress method implementation for Seam welds idealized with plate or shell elements. The approach is based on VOLVO method. Supported weld type is FILLET weld and the weld lines (root and toe) are automatically identified.

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New Features in Altair HyperStudy

Series of new feature videos for Altair HyperStudy within the Altair HyperWorks 2019 release

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New Features in Altair HyperLife

Series of new feature videos for Altair HyperLife within the Altair HyperWorks 2019 release

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Altair HyperMesh New Feature Overview

View a high level overview of the new features available within HyperMesh 2019.

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Altair HyperMesh Batchmesher Enhancements

Many improvements have been made to batchmesher in the version 2019 release. Learn more about the new enhancements available in this release.

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Altair HyperMesh CAD Interfaces and New Capabilities

Many improvements have been made to the CAD interface in the version 2019 release. Learn more about the new enhancements available in this release.

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Altair HyperMesh Crash & Safety - Dummy Pre-Simulation

Dummy pre-simulation with the cable method can be performed using the Dummy Pre-Simulation tool.

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Altair HyperMesh Crash & Safety - Mechanism Tool

Automatically extract bodies and joints to create a mechanism of the selected Finite Element model using the Mechanism Extraction tool.

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Altair HyperGraph Session Browser Enhancements

The new Session browser has an Entity Editor section to modify page and window properties. This will allow you to manage large sessions more efficiently by editing multiple entities simultaneously.

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Altair HyperGraph TableView Enhancements

Tableview has been enhanced with several new and updated capabilities such as math reference support, cells with Templex expressions and new math functions among others.

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Altair OptiStruct New Feature Overview

View a high level overview of the new features available within OptiStruct 2019.

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Altair OptiStruct New Axisymmetric Element (CQAXI)

OptiStruct offers support for the QUAD element type that defines a 4 or 8 node CQAXI Bulk entry.

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Altair OptiStruct Grid Based Free Shape Optimization

A new option, GRID, is available on the 3rd field of DSHAPE Bulk Entry that allows more flexible shape changes (including normal to the shell surface) as each DSHAPE grid has its own design variable.

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Altair OptiStruct Interface Enhancements in SimLab

New solutions approaches are supported to perform model setup for OptiStruct, including enhancements to the loads and constraints and optimization responses.

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