New Industrial Design Software Has Roots in Engineering Simulation 

Altair Inspire Studio is new software for industrial design. Altair says the software will help industrial designers as well as architects and digital artists create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. It brings Construction History—also known as versioning—to industrial design, along with multiple modeling techniques to drive the creative process.

Inspire Studio is the most recent addition to the Altair Inspire Platform, which uses Altair’s simulation expertise as a basis for a new product design platform. Altair says Inspire Studio introduces a sleek, efficient user experience in which each tool and workflow are optimized for an efficient design experience.

Construction History automatically backtracks to an earlier stage of a design, allowing the designer to reuse or modify objects from past stages in real time. 

The Sketching tools in Inspire Studio allow the use of 2D constraints, making it easy to apply geometric relationships between components at a very early stage. 

NURBS technology (non-uniform rational B-splines) are available for curves, surfaces and solids, allowing for accurate representation of complex shapes with flexibility and precision. PolyNURBS combine polygonal modeling with NURBS technology to give industrial designers a new way to portray free-form surfaces and solids that are smooth and continuous. 

Rendering technology is included in Inspire Studio (called Inspire Render), allowing the designer to create physically accurate photorealistic renderings using a global illumination engine with biased, unbiased and Presto interactive modes. 

Tool Belts are a customized set of commonly used features and commands, quickly available to the user. 

Altair says Inspire Studio builds on the capabilities of its design product Evolve, but extends the technology further by combining the precision of NURBS with Construction History in a product that simplifies exploring multiple iterations of a design.    

Altair Inspire Studio runs on MacOS and Windows as either a standalone product or under Altair’s flexible units-based licensing model.  Price quotes are now available to existing Altair users. The product will ship before the end of 2019. 

For more information on Altar Inspire Studio, click here. 

To learn about using PolyNURBS in Altair Inspire Studio, check out this video. 

See why DE’s Editors selected Altair Inspire Studio as their Pick of the Week. 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.