Altair HyperShape/CATIA

Altair HyperShape/CATIA is a direct integration between Dassault Systčmes' CATIA V5 solution and Altair Engineering's award-winning design optimisation technology, Altair OptiStruct.

HyperShape/CATIA generates structurally optimal concept design proposals from supplied packaging information, loads, constraints and required product performance. Typically used ahead of CAD design, HyperShape/CATIA aids designers in developing completely new, mass efficient, high performance product design proposals. With the addition of manufacturing constraints, this technology regularly delivers dramatic improvements in design performance and allows companies to achieve product and business objectives considerably faster than conventional methods.

Benefits

• Reduce development time and costs through upfront design optimization

• Assess engineering feasibility of concepts early in the design process

• Create unique, high performance designs for required performance criteria: eigen frequency, mass, and stiffness

• Minimise the validation effort for new product designs

• Optimise designs for desired manufacturing process

Key Features

Optimization Discipline

• Topology optimization

Optimization Objectives for Multiple Load Cases

• Minimize weighted compliance

• Maximize weighted eigen frequencies

Manufacturing Constraints

• Minimum member size

• Die draw direction

• Symmetry

Optimization Constraints

• Volume fraction

Post-Processing

• Topology element density

• Displacements

• Design proposal geometry automatically imported

• .h3d output for web sharing and reporting

Materials Supported

• Isotropic

HyperShape/CATIA Requirements

Prerequisites

• Dassault Systémes CATIA V5

• ME2 configuration

• Altair OptiStruct.

CATIA V5 Available Additions

• EST (for multiple loadcases)

• FMD (advanced meshing for appropriate tetra meshes)

Minimum Hardware Requirements
1MB disk space for installation
500 MB minimum memory
1GB recommended memory
Available on PC (Windows NT, XP, 2000)