Altair HyperWorks Licensing 2019 Release Notes

Altair provides a unique and innovative license mechanism that allows you to maximize productivity and functionality when using the Altair HyperWorks suite of programs. Changes in HyperWorks 2019 licensing include:

• Altair License Manager 14.0.2
• New product license features
• Product unit draw changes
• Resolved issues

Altair License Manager

The Altair License Manager has been updated to 14.0.2, providing better reliability and bugs fixes.

This version is required to run Altair HyperWorks 2019 products and is backward compatible with previous versions of HyperWorks.

Product license features

The following new products are now available under HyperWorks units (HWUs):

Altair Inspire platform

The Inspire platform is an intuitive and powerful software technology platform that enables simulation-driven design throughout the entire product development. The following Inspire platform products are included in the HyperWorks 2019 release:

Altair Inspire

Generative Design and rapid simulation solution for designers. Altair Inspire draws 15 HWUs.

Altair Inspire Cast

Fast casting process simulation. Inspire GUI and Solver draw 30 HWUs.

Altair Inspire Form

Sheet metal forming feasibility and tryout. Inspire Form One Step Solver draws 15 HWUs and Incremental Solver draws 30 HWU to run.

Altair Inspire Extrude

Metal and Polymer extrusion process simulations. Both processes draw 30 HWUs.

Altair HyperLife

An easy-to-learn fatigue analysis software developed on the modern, solver-neutral HyperWorks X framework. HyperLife draws 30 HWUs to run.

Altair SimLab

Altair builds upon its core SimLab technology and leadership in automated solid modeling, boasting an entirely new user experience. The new multiphysics solution features the addition of deeply embedded solvers, including statics, dynamics, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics analysis. SimLab pre and post processors draw 21 HWUs and 30 HWUs for embedded solvers.

Altair SimSolid

A structural analysis application that enables the analysis of fully-featured CAD assemblies without meshing. SimSolid requires 30 HWUs to run.

Altair nanoFluidX

A particle-based (SPH) fluid dynamics code for simulation of single and multiphase flows in complex geometries with complex motion.

Altair ultraFluidX

Simulation software based on Lattice-Boltzmann method for ultra-fast prediction of the aerodynamic properties of passenger and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as for the evaluation of building and environmental aerodynamics.

Both nanoFluidX and ultraFluidX are a direct GPU implementation and draw HWUs based on the number of GPUs.

Product unit draw changes

The following products have modified the number of units required to run the applications:

Altair Compose

Reduced to 5 HWUs, previously 10 HWUs.

Altair Embed

Reduced to 20 HWUs, previously 25 HWUs.

Altair Embed Digital Power Design

Draws 30 HWUs.

HyperWorks Solver Per-Job licensing

Unit draw is based on the number of the CPU cores (and GPU), the number of jobs running concurrently, and whether it is a co-simulation run.

This functionality is enabled in the Altair Flux solver, Feko solver, MotionSolve, WinProp solver, and ElectroFlo solver.

HyperWorks Solver Unlimited Solver Node (Per-Node) licensing

Unit draw is per compute node.

This functionality is now enabled in the Flux solver, Feko solver, MotionSolve, WinProp solver, and ElectroFlo solver, in addition to previous solvers.

HyperWorks Solvers Unit decay

This functionality is enabled in the Flux solver, Feko solver, WinProp solver, and ElectroFlo solver, in addition to previous solvers.

See the Licensing section in the HyperWorks Introduction for more detailed information and comprehensive unit draws.

• NVH profile now checks the default license location.
• MotionView run panel and MotionView Run Manager license error has been fixed.