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Inspire
Inspire, the industry’s most powerful and easy-to-use Generative Design/Topology Optimization and rapid simulation solution for design engineers empowers its users by creating and investigating structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. This can lead to reduced costs, development time, material consumption, and product weight. The software is easy to learn and works with existing CAD tools to help design structural parts right the first time.
Applied at the very beginning of clean-sheet design programs and for design exploration of current production parts, Inspire simulation-driven design software allows designers and engineers to:
- Rapidly assemble and simulate dynamic mechanical systems to automatically resolve loads on system components for optimization and analysis
- Generate weight-efficient design proposals unique to specified conventional or additive manufacturing processes with Altair’s industry-leading topology optimization technology
- Simulate the performance of competing design concepts for static loads, normal modes and buckling
- Directly export Inspire CAD geometry to 3D printers to produce high-performance, quality parts
WHAT’S NEW IN INSPIRE 2018?
The latest release of Inspire, ’Inspire 2018’ introduces multiple new enhancements including the ability to:
- Generate optimized lattice and mixed solid – lattice structures, visualize simulation results in 3D, and export lattice designs in a .stl file format for 3D printing.
- View and interactively assign loads to load cases and import / export design loads in .csv file format with the new Load Cases Table.
- Design for additive manufacturing with overhang shape controls to help reduce overhangs to create more self-supporting structures.
- Automatically optimize the fit of PolyNURBS CAD geometry to generative design results with the new PolyNURBS Fit Tool.
View the Inspire 2018 recorded webinar and discover the difference in simulation-driven design here. See demonstrations and explore:
- Lattice Optimization and Export
- Overhang Shape Controls
- PolyNURBS Fit
Try Inspire 2018 and request a free trial here.
Learn how Inspire is currently being used to design for additive manufacturing here.
Explore Inspire case studies.
- Structurally efficient concept generation and analysis
- Support for optimization and analysis of parts and assemblies
- Quickly and easily cleanup and defeature problem areas in the geometry
- Investigate linear static and normal modes analysis
- User friendly interface with extremely short learning curve
| Geometry Creation and Simplification | Geometry Creation and Simplification |
| Create, modify, and de-feature solid models using Inspire’s modeling tools: | Create, modify, and de-feature solid models using Inspire’s modeling tools: |
| Sketch Tools – Build or modify parts by sketching lines, rectangles, circles, and arcs. | |
| Geometric constraints such as, mirroring, scaling, revolving, push/pull, tangency and perpendicularity can also be applied: | Geometric constraints such as, mirroring, scaling, revolving, push/pull, tangency and perpendicularity can also be applied. |
| Trim/Break – Cut and remove sketch curves at the point of intersection. | |
| Boolean Operations – Add, subtract, or intersect solid parts to create more complex geometry. | |
| Defeature – Remove imprints, rounds, fillets, holes, and pockets, or plug holes and pockets, or create patches and bridges. | |
| Midsurfacing – Midsurfacing tools allow users to find and extract 2D sheets from single thickness thin solid geometry. |
| Optimization Options | Optimization Options |
| Inspire offers users a number of topology options: | Inspire offers users a number of topology options: |
| Optimization Objectives – When running an optimization, Designers can choose to either maximize stiffness or minimize mass. | |
| Stress Constraints – A global stress constraint can be applied to limit the maximum stress in the model during optimization. | |
| Displacement Constraints – Displacement constraints can be applied to a model to limit deflections in desired locations and directions. | |
| Acceleration loads – Angular velocity and acceleration tools allow users to define the speed of rotation of the entire model and the axis about which it rotates | |
| g-Loads – g-Loads tool allows users to simulate a model undergoing acceleration, which imparts a force on all parts of the model | |
| Displacement Constraints – Displacement constraints can be applied to a model to limit deflections in desired locations and directions. | |
| Temperature Loads – Temperature tool allows users to simulate the effects of temperature changes in a model: | Temperature Loads – Temperature tool allows users to simulate the effects of temperature changes in a model. |
| Export to OptiStruct – Designers can export OptiStruct input files for advanced simulations. |
| Manufacturing and Shape Controls | Manufacturing and Shape Controls |
| Generate design concepts that are not only structurally efficient but also manufacturable using Inspire’s shape controls: | Generate design concepts that are not only structurally efficient but also manufacturable using Inspire’s shape controls: |
| Symmetry Planes – Force asymmetric design spaces to generate symmetric optimized shapes. | |
| Cyclic Repetition – Create cyclically repeating shapes like propellers or wheels. | |
| Draw Directions – Generate shapes that can be easily molded or stamped by applying single or split draw directions. | |
| Extrusion Shape Control – Generates constant cross-section topologies in a specified direction. |
| Analysis |
| Investigate linear static and normal modes analysis on a model and visualize displacement, factor of safety, percent of yield, tension and compression, von Mises stress, and major principal stress. |
| Customizable Materials Database |
| Inspire is packaged with a material library including various aluminum, steel, magnesium, and titanium alloys. Custom materials can also be added. |
| Part Instances |
| Parent-Child Instances – Individual parts can be copied and pasted as an instance. Whenever one is updated, the other is automatically updated as well. Instancing information can also be imported from CAD files. |
| Interactive Results Visualization |
| Explore optimized shapes using a simple slider to add or remove material. Users can decide which features are important and then pick the concept design best suited to their needs. |
| Assembly Configuration |
| Multiple assembly configurations can be created. These configurations can then be used to evaluate various design scenarios and the resulting concepts. |
| Multiple Language Formats |
| Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish. |
| Shape Controls & Design Constraints |
| Min/Max Size |
| Draw Direction |
| Symmetry |
| Pattern Repetition |
| Cyclic Repetition |
| Stress Constraints |
| Frequency Constraints |
| Displacement Constraints |
| Geometry Import |
| ACIS |
| Catia (V4 & V5) |
| Creo |
| IGES |
| Inventor |
| JT |
| Parasolid |
| Pro/E |
| SolidWorks |
| STEP |
| STL |
| UG NX (Unigraphics) |
| Geometry Export |
| IGES |
| Parasolid |
| STEP |
| STL |
solidthinking Inspire Case studies:
Wayne State Warrior Racing
3D Systems Creates 3D Printed Skateboard Optimized with Inspire
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