Altair Engineering GmbH

Altair Inspire Cast

Altair Inspire Cast is a fast, easy, accurate and affordable casting simulation environment with a highly intuitive user experience catering the needs from product designers to foundry engineers. Right from early design phase, users can visualize typical casting defects such as air entrapment, shrinkage porosity, cold shuts, mold degradation and rectify them avoiding costly downstream corrections. Guided process templates offer 5 easy steps to simulate Gravity Die, Gravity Sand, Investment, High Pressure, Low Pressure Die Casting and Tilt Pouring. Altair Inspire Cast's innovative experience enables users to increase product quality and design better products with a few hours of training.

Features

Ease of Use with 5 Simple Steps

Simulate, run analysis, optimize, and cast final part all within one environment

Casting Templates to Simulate

simulate high and low pressure die casting, gravity sand, and investment casting

Optimize Ingate Design and Position

auto-generate the ingate from size and position selection

Validate Full Casting Designs

validate full casting designs including cavities, runners and overflows.

Altair Inspire software is the industry's most powerful and easy-to-use Generative Design/Topology Optimization and rapid simulation solution for design engineers. It enhances the concept development process by enabling simulation-driven design to increase your product’s efficiency, strength and manufacturability. This can lead to reduced costs, development time, material consumption, and product weight. 

Altair Inspire 2019 provides many groundbreaking new features:

• Easily generate dynamic motion of complex mechanisms, automatically identifying contacts, joints, springs and dampers.
• Forces obtained from a motion analysis are automatically applied as inputs to a structural analysis and optimization or can be used to determine initial requirements for motors and actuators.
• 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.