Dirker, a technical specialist at Navistar, said: “Reducing part and assembly mass is important to us and Inspire shows us how we can do this while also increasing the durability of structural components. manufacturer of large vehicles and engines, uses solidThinking Inspire to design and improve its products. Design engineers, product designers, and architects are able to freely design and try out concepts to determine if they are structurally sound without having to build physical prototypes, which can be time-consuming and costly. When used in the earliest stages of the design process, solidThinking Inspire users can reduce design time, increase product performance, and efficiency while also reducing the mass of the product parts – making them lighter and easier to produce. It uses a ‘Topology Optimization’ algorithm to generate product designs in 3D and using topography optimization can change the shape of shell structures through stamped bead patterns. Built upon algorithms that were developed by biomedical research for predicting human bone growth, solidThinking Inspire is a platform for early-stage optimization and analysis or verification of designs. Here’s where Altair’s solidThinking Inspire software comes into play.

But when a structural system involves a complex hodgepodge of concepts, designs and materials, that intuition may not be enough. Where do your designs begin? Do you use previous projects as your launchpad, or can you rely entirely on hard-earned knowledge of structural engineering theories? When solving straightforward problems, designers tap into what we call their “engineering intuition” to build efficient structures.

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