Altair Design Explorer: Your Shortcut to Design Exploration and Optimization
Altair EmployeeWould you like to gain more insight into your product’s performance and design? Do you sometimes find yourself stuck in the “typical” iterative CAE rut: change a parameter, re-run your simulation, view the results, repeat? You use your sound engineering judgement to propose design changes, but you may wonder whether a more quantitative, regimented approach would help.
DOEs and optimizations are useful tools that can be applied to address some of these concerns. But these multi-run simulations are not necessarily easy to define, set up, and manage. CAE pre- and post-processors don’t often have integrated tools for this purpose. Even if they do, there may be a steep learning curve, and the tools are not typically very user-friendly. As a result, they remain the domain of certain “experts.”
Altair HyperWorks Design Explorer (DE) brings these exploration tools to every HyperWorks user in a natural, seamless, intuitive way. DE provides a beginning-to-end workflow, from defining and executing, to post-processing and interpreting multi-run simulations – DOEs and optimizations.
Set-up: Using model graphics-based tools, users can easily and interactively create design variables, responses, and goals used in their explorations, dramatically flattening the learning curve, making setup a snap.
Execution: DE provides integrated job submission and job monitoring tools. So, you can submit your explorations within the integrated workflow and track exploration runs while they’re in progress.
Post-processing: The Results Explorer (RE) provides a robust set of reports and tools to visualize and interpret exploration results. In addition, RE works seamlessly within the HyperWorks Post environment allowing you to build dashboards for contouring, animating, and plotting exploration run results.
The video below introduces the Design Explorer, going step-by-step through a typical example. It should give you a good idea about what the DE workflow looks like, how users would interact with it, and some of the tools it contains. However, the video is just one example, and it only scratches the surface of the Design Explorer -- how it is used and how it may benefit HW users. If you have questions or would like to learn more, please contact your account representative or support person.