Altair® Inspire™ Form
Why Inspire Form?
Design Better Products
Inspire Form enables users to quickly and reliably check the formability of apart early in the product design cycle. With Inspire Form, users can visualize potential defects such as splits or wrinkles, and then modify to eliminate defects and improve overall design.
Easy to Use
Inspire Form has a simple and highly intuitive workflow that is easy to learn and apply. Standard training sessions last only 4-6 hours, although most users can learn Inspire Form applications with no formal training at all.
Save Material and Costs
Inspire Form predicts accurate blank shapes that can be optimally nested in progressive and transfer die layouts within manufacturing constraints to save material and cost.
Key Features
Geometry Creation and Simplification
Extract midsurface, fill holes and cutouts, and remove flanges using Inspire Form’s geometry preparation tools. In addition, use Altair® Inspire™ tools to create and modify geometry.
Analysis and Results Visualization
The flat blank needed to form the part shape is available at the end of the analysis. Visualize thinning and other defects such as splits, wrinkles, and loose metal.
Model Setup
If the part geometry is available in car coordinates, Inspire Form automatically calculates the best stamping direction and can apply restraining forces corresponding to blankholder and drawbeads. The user can also specify the stamping direction.
Materials Library
Inspire Form provides a material library with properties for standard steel and aluminum grades. It can also create a new material and save it within the user database.
Die Geometry Module
Start from any CAD geometry of your part and build a die addendum concept right inside the familiar Inspire environment, leveraging the power of PolyNURBS hybrid modeling, evaluating and optimizing alternatives quickly.
Multi-stage Virtual Tryout
Optimize the manufacturing process setting up single and multistage metal forming virtual tryout tools. The fast and scalable incremental solver supports forming and trimming, giving the ability to accurately analyze material flow, splits, wrinkles, lose metal, and springback.