Altair has released its new open architecture CAE simulation platform, HyperWorks 14.0.
This platform includes several new products, feature enhancements, updated functionalities, and licensing methods to help users get to the right design with expanded optimization and nonlinear solver capabilities, save time with accelerated meshing, assembly, and graphics, and access the latest technologies with new added tools, and new products in the Altair Partner Alliance.
Some of the features offered by the new release are OptiStruct 14.0’s elevated capabilities to include more nonlinear analyses, new contact and optimization algorithms, and numerous improvements in solution speed; HyperMesh’s new part and assembly workflow to promote flow of data directly from Product Data Management (PDM) data structures bringing performance up to 15x faster for large FE models with solid elements and up to 60x faster for geometry models all while using less hardware memory; the addition of Multiscale Designer, a practical tool for the seamless integration of modeling, simulation, testing and optimization of engineered products using complex materials; and more.