HyperWorks 12.0 Release Notes

ased just on the number of cores that are used, and effectively lowers costs.
• When supported solvers run on GPUs, each GPU will count for the HWU draw as one CPU-core
Altair Partner Alliance
The Altair Partner Alliance continues to expand its portfolio of third-party technology.
• Applications from more than 30 strategic partners can be directly accessed with HyperWorks Units
in the following domains: durability and fatigue, computational fluid dynamics, impact analysis,
noise-vibration-harshness, electromagnetic analysis, 1D systems simulation, injection molding
simulation, process structure interaction, composite modeling, stress analysis, material libraries,
thermal analysis, complexity management, tolerance analysis, casting simulation and multi-body
dynamics analysis.
Ideation and Conceptual Design
solidThinking Inspire
solidThinking Inspire allows design engineers, product designers and architects to generate and
investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. Inspire embeds Altair’s OptiStruct algorithms,
bringing topology optimization to a broader audience. The technology generates the ideal design geometry
for a given package space, material properties and loading requirements. Inspire is easy to learn and
works with your existing tools to help you design structural parts right the first time, reducing design time,
material consumption and product weight.
New, exciting capabilities have been added in this release, including:
• Sketch Lines, Rectangles, Circles and Arcs: Build simple design spaces by modifying or
creating new solid parts using lines, rectangles, circles and arcs. Sketched geometry can be
exported from Inspire in various formats, including Parasolid, STEP, and IGES
• Boolean Operations: New solid objects can be created by performing Boolean operations to
combine, subtract or intersect sets of objects
• Frequency Targets: Design concepts can be optimized to maximize or meet specified frequency
targets
solidThinking Evolve
solidThinking Evolve allows industrial designers to develop forms faster than before, using either Windows
or Mac, from capturing an initial sketch to exploring styling alternatives and visualizing products with
realistic renderings generated in real time. Evolve provides organic surface modeling and parametric
control, with NURBS-based surfaces and solids and the unique ConstructionTree history feature. It frees
designers from the constraints of engineering-oriented CAD tools, while allowing the export of digital
models required by others in the product development process.
Design Exploration
Expand your horizon with HyperWorks design exploration tools, studying the available options in “whatif”
scenarios with HyperStudy, understanding system behavior and performing automated complex
calculations in HyperMath.
HyperStudy
HyperStudy is a multi-disciplinary design exploration, study and optimization software. Using HyperStudy,
users can gain insight into their applications, make better design decisions and optimize the performance,
reliability and robustness of their systems.