Inspire™ Studio

Go beyond rendering

Altair® Inspire™ Studio

Inspire Studio is the world’s most holistic solution for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists. Create, evaluate, and visualize designs faster than ever before. With unrivaled flexibility and precision, we combine our unique construction history feature with essential modeling techniques to empower users throughout their creative process.

Altair® Inspire™ Studio

Inspire Studio is the world’s most holistic solution for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists. Create, evaluate, and visualize designs faster than ever before. With unrivaled flexibility and precision, we combine our unique construction history feature with essential modeling techniques to empower users throughout their creative process.

why inspire studio

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Change What's Possible

Inspire Studio enhances creativity by letting designers drive their design. With its powerful construction history tool and an intuitive user interface, designers can quickly create, explore multiple iterations, and make changes without any rework.

enhance flexibility

Mix and match modeling techniques within the same environment. Combine fast, free-form polygonal modeling with the control and precision of surface and solid modeling to effortlessly create and explore even the most challenging designs.

Recalibrate Reality

Offering an intuitive setup and large choice of environments and materials, Inspire Studio’s rendering engine creates stunning images and complex animations in real time with physically accurate lighting.

Key Features

Construction History

Automatically backtrack to an earlier stage of your design, reusing or modifying objects from past stages in real-time.

PolyNURBS

Combine the ease and simplicity of polygonal modeling with the precision and flexibility of NURBS to quickly create free-form surface and solid geometry that is smooth and continuous.

Manufacturing Drawings

Create detailed 2D drawings of complex 3D models and assemblies from multiple perspectives. Functionalities include one-click view creation, section and detail views, linear, angular, radial, and ordinate dimensions, as well as annotations.

Sketching

Create and edit constraint-based technical sketches by easily applying geometric relationships between components.

Rendering and Animations

Create high-quality rendered images and animations with a physically based global illumination engine in biased photorealistic, unbiased, and Presto interactive modes.

Design Tables

Create design iterations, exploring and evaluating design alternatives on the fly using a design table. Quickly modify and set thresholds for the various parameters of a model, without having to dig through construction history. 

Surfaces and Curves

Utilize Non-uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) curves and surfaces to accurately represent even the most complex shapes with flexibility and precision.

Tool Belts

One-click access to all modeling and rendering tools brings any functionality directly to you. Customize tool belts to meet your needs.

Geometry Morphing

Complex geometries can easily be interactively edited with the easy and intutive Deform capability, either at the global part level or applying local modifications to the model.

Featured Capabilities

Manufacturing Drawings

Design Tables

Photo-realistic Rendering

Edit with Construction History

PolyNURBS for Rapid Styling

Import Freehand Sketches

Create and Control NURBS

Constraint-based Technical Sketches

Constraint-based Technical Sketches

solutions

for Civil Engineering

Super-tall buildings, façades systems, façade manufacturing, free form structures and protective designs – The challenges of designing and building the world’s most daring and innovative structures can be solved using Altair technology to create beautiful, functional and lasting designs. Civil engineers gain insight throughout the development process to rapidly evolve designs, control costs and ensure structures are safe and feasible.
Architectural teams can unleash their creativity and see their concepts validated quicker and with fewer design iterations, while structural teams enhance their design process with automatic optimization workflows to achieve maximal performance. Simulation tools help model and accurately predict the unique behavior of advanced composite materials and optimize their shape and manufacturability to meet performance and cost criteria.

Optimization Inspired by Nature

Finding more efficient shapes, reducing material and weight, and increasing stability is vital to civil engineers. To meet these challenges, designers and engineers leverage topology optimization. This process follows the patterns of material growth in biological forms to eliminating material redundancies within prescribed performance targets and create optimized structures. Size optimization is a critical component, deployed within 1D models to optimize beams and columns.

Unleashing the Power of Digital Wind

When building the world’s largest skyscrapers and high-rises, it is imperative to consider the impact of wind pressures on the structure and on pedestrian comfort. Virtual wind tunnel testing is now globally recognized as a mature technology that produces accurate modeling of wind pressures, delivers rapid results, and enables designers to explore and evolve concepts based on CFD insights.

Resilience Against Blast Events

For more than 30 years, Altair has established itself as a leader and industry standard for blast and explosion effects and high velocity impacts for risk mitigation. These tools enable civil and material engineers to simulate these events, predict damage, identify structural vulnerabilities, and optimize the design for maximum structural integrity under extreme loads. Faster and cheaper than destructive tests, engineers gain valuable insights yielding the design of safer structures.

Optimization Inspired by Nature

Altair has developed a multi-disciplinary optimization workflow that allows clients to understand structural performance sooner, accelerate design cycles to reduce cost, and virtually validate designs to reduce risk. High-performance design is a holistic approach for developing feasible, safe and robust structures with a simulation-driven approach.

Altair’s repeatable and customizable workflow combines wind loads with most advanced optimization techniques. The cost and time to deliver complex steel structures can be reduced thanks to automatic workflows capable of integrating all the major AEC structural solvers via direct link or neutral file formats, the power of size optimization for steel sections in 1D models, and topology optimization for 3D models to find the optimal load path.

This collaborative and innovative approach has been adopted by architectural firms around the world, including Zaha Hadid Architects’ study to generate a new structural and architectural expression for the Neue National Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Fast Alternative Design with Mesh-free Solver

Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) design cycles have two crucial requirements: product performance and timely delivery. Due to immense project pressures, there is often insufficient time to investigate design alternatives or new solution. Altair SimSolid™ is a technological breakthrough that allows civil engineers to analyze fully featured CAD assemblies in minutes, eliminating geometry simplification and meshing. These insights allow engineers to foresee better alternatives in large structural models and rapidly evolve designs within existing project timelines. With SimSolid, design teams can perform multiple iterations of their most complex parts and explore multiple alternatives of large assemblies at blazing speed.

Aerodynamic Insight from Design to Validation

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has become a powerful tool deployed throughout the AEC design workflow. For designers, concept-stage aerodynamic simulation helps shape designs to uphold the client’s vision while adhering to downstream performance targets.

Using digital wind tunnel testing, it is now possible to investigate multiple design alternatives to determine feasibility and update shapes on the fly. For detailed validation in the latter stages of development, Altair CFD tools provide a granular understanding of aerodynamic phenomenon, mitigating risk and ensuring safety and stability of the structure.

The Altair technology portfolio includes leading CFD tools that leverage both CPU-based Naiver-Stokes and GPU-based Lattice Boltzmann methods, allowing clients to select the best method to meet their challenges and project requirements.

The Altair technology portfolio includes leading CFD tools that leverage both CPU-based Naiver-Stokes and GPU-based Lattice Boltzmann methods, allowing clients to select the best method to meet their challenges and project requirements.

Façade Engineering and Manufacturing

The design of modern façade systems requires a multi-disciplinary approach, supporting all key aspects of façade engineering; structural engineering, thermal analysis, manufacturing and protective design.
Structural Engineering

Altair’s technology streamlines the assessment of structural integrity, even for complex parts and large assemblies with hundreds of parts and bolts with pre-tensioning, weld lines, contacts and friction, with fast and intuitive tools for both linear and all non-linearity analyses.

Thermal Analysis

Energy consumption and thermal effects can easily be calculated leveraging Altair’s suite of CFD tools.

Blast Simulation

Protective design simulation allows civil engineers to predict the effects of blast and explosion on critical structural systems.

Façade Manufacturing

Altair’s manufacturing feasibility software simulates part extrusion profiles, providing end-to-end solutions for façade development.

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