altair technology vision

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Innovation Intelligence®

Altair Technology Vision

James Dagg

CTO, Modeling and Visualization

June 2014

Technology...

Technology + Design

Then a new technology emerges….

Our vision is to radically change the way

organizations design products and make decisions.

Our vision is to radically change the way

organizations design products and make decisions. We help you adopt new technology.

We help you manage complexity.

We help you innovate.

Let’s look at how products are changing.

How will the things we create be different?

Optimization

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User experience.

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Automatic highway

Infotainment/phone connection

tv

How are we going to do this?

What does the future of engineering look like?

We wish.

But maybe that’s not so far off...

Concept Design

Simulation and Optimization

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Void Solid

Intermediate Densities

- Lattice

Optimization for ALM

Statics

NVH

Non-

Linear

(Implicit)

Non-

Linear

(Explicit)

Thermal

and CFD

Multi-Body

Dynamics

Optimization

Coupled Solutions Driven by Optimization

OptiStruct AcuSolve MotionSolve RADIOSS

Multi-Physics

But can we make it easier?

Yes.

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Simlab

HyperXtrude

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Virtual Wind Tunnel

AcuConsole

We wouldn’t dare try this with

HyperMesh would we?

Yes.

HyperMesh/View/Graph

Where are my panels?!?!?

Our vision is to radically change the way

organizations design products and make decisions.

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Arena Design Space

(quarter model)

3.75 M lbf lower deck

1.25 M lbf upper deck

1.25 M lbf upper concession

1.875 M lbf lower concession

gravitational force on structure

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Venue of the next World Cup?