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"Design Engineer Using Inspire"

4.0

Nathan W. - EngineerMay 24, 2024

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What is Inspire?

Altair Inspire enhances the concept development process by enabling simulation-driven design to increase your product's efficiency, strength and manufacturability. Applied early in the product development lifecycle, Altair Inspire accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies through collaboration. Inspire's award winning user experience for geometry creation and modification can be learned in just a few hours.

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Most Helpful Reviews for Inspire

Jorge L. avatar
Jorge L.
Docente
1,001-5,000 employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
5.0
Likelihood to Recommend
10/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
June 3, 2018

" It is an efficient software, and has a new tool such as the generation of forms of morphogenesis. "

Overall: Using it within my organization has helped me to compare this software with others and thus make the most of it as well as making the classes dynamic and with demonstrations of operation when performing the simulations.

Pros: The efficiency when designing and how fast this product generates the mechanical parts. It has important new features of solidThinking Inspire 2014 include geometry simplification tools, linear static analysis, concentrated dough pieces and smoothing options, as well as the ability to export solid geometry. this allows design engineers, product designers and architects to create and research structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily, reducing cost, development time, material consumption and product weight.

Cons: The little diffusion to the Latin countries that makes it little known, besides the cost which is high for the conditions of these countries, should be promoted with a series of plans accessible to the end user, it is important to emphasize that due to being a high software level requires a high capacity ram memory inside the pc, you should also be considered the option of generating modules that require less memory for its operation.

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Tech writer
Used the software for:
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
April 17, 2018

"Definitely the future of simulation "

Overall: This software is one i implemented during my part time lectures in a local university. The students loved it

Pros: One can create 3 dimensional images from 2 dimensional images as references, and with a wide variety of online video tutorials and literature, this is possible even for newbies.

Cons: The software is quite heavy on computers, and can slow down processes to the point of hanging, i suggest an increase in RAM.

Nathan W.
Engineer
Automotive, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 1-2 years
Overall Rating
4.0
Ease of Use
3.0
Customer Service
5.0
Features
3.0
Likelihood to Recommend
8/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
May 24, 2024

"Design Engineer Using Inspire"

Pros: Inspire tends to be a great option for quick checks on design. The mesh seems fast and flexible... much better than most. It handles odd conditions like edge contact well.

Cons: The plug in doesn't particularily work well embedded into CAD programs. It is a little tedious to always have to export models from CAD, import into Inspire, and then try to transfer the results back into CAD.

Reasons for Switching to Inspire: Company mandated switch required me to move to an "agnostic" of CAD Simulation program.
Mert S. avatar
Mert S.
HW DESIGN ENGINEER
Automotive, 10,001+ employees
Used the software for: 6-12 months
Overall Rating
5.0
Ease of Use
5.0
Customer Service
3.0
Features
5.0
Value for Money
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
9/10
Reviewer Source
Source: Capterra
April 19, 2019

"Easy to optimize"

Pros: I really like the user friendly interface, I used to optimize stamping products. Its so easy and lot of source to learn the program. While it might be harder to give constraints on another programs, it's so easy and compact.

Cons: Can't have a detailed mesh in comparison with other topology optimization Programs.