Altair Inspire

Use Altair Inspire with the SimSolid solver to quickly create and analyze new designs.

The SimSolid solver is available from within Inspire for linear static and modal analysis.

To turn on the SimSolid solver in Inspire:
  1. Select File > Preferences > Run Options > Analysis Solver.
  2. Choose SimSolid in the drop-down menu.
  3. Click OK.

Tutorial Video

Use Inspire's various geometry tools (Sketch, Geometry, PolyMesh, and PolyNURBs ribbons) to create new parts or make changes to existing ones and quickly re-analyze with SimSolid.

Export Project File

Export an Inspire model as a SimSolid Project (.ssp) file.

  1. On the Structure ribbon, Analysis tool, select Run SimSolid Analysis.
    Figure 1.
  2. In the dialog, click Export.


    Figure 2.
  3. Name the file and save it as an .ssp.

Open in SimSolid

Open the exported project file in SimSolid.

  1. Launch SimSolid.
  2. On the main window toolbar, click (Open project).
  3. Select the .ssp file exported previously.
  4. Click Open.