Simcenter Inspire is a powerful CAE tool built specifically for designers, bringing simulation and computational physics into a CAD-like environment.
By seamlessly integrating geometry modeling, generative design and manufacturing simulation, Inspire offers rapid concept exploration, performance validation and manufacturability assessments early in the design process—bridging the gap between ideation and production.
Simcenter Inspire lets users seamlessly combine BRep, PolyNURBS organic modeling, facets and implicit geometry. Intelligent sketching tools, unique construction history accelerate design cycles and ensure consistency.
Simcenter Inspire brings simulation into an intuitive environment for exploration of structural, motion and fluid performance. Embedded solvers eliminate or automate meshing, streamlining analysis without sacrificing accuracy.
With a comprehensive suite of optimization tools, Simcenter Inspire drives the creation of high-performance, manufacturable designs. Enable efficient material use, structural refinement, and lightweighting.
Advanced hybrid modeling
From product designers to foundry engineers, Simcenter Inspire Cast is a complete, robust, and easy-to-use metal casting simulation software for beginners and experts alike. Applied early in the part design cycle, it reduces costly, time-consuming iterations between design and manufacturing. Inspire Cast supports a wide set of casting processes and conditions, helping users make smarter decisions to improve product quality and profitability. Its geometry- and part-centric approach makes it easy to resolve problems early, run analysis, optimize, validate, and cast all within one comprehensive environment.
Simcenter Inspire Cast uniquely blends casting simulation with practical artificial intelligence (AI), combining data-driven machine learning with physics-based simulation—no deep expertise in finite element methods or AI required. By learning from past simulations, it accelerates design cycles, optimizes performance, and democratizes casting design, giving users a competitive edge.
Design for efficient metal extrusion
Every extrusion company is looking to eliminate costly prototypes and reduce redesign cycles. Now advanced physics simulations are accessible to organizations of all sizes. Simcenter Inspire Extrude Metal is an easy-to-learn tool that enables simulation to be used by any engineer or designer to increase their understanding of how profile features and process variables interact for any particular metal alloy. It will help your team achieve productivity gains by reducing product development costs and improve extrusion quality, increasing production yield and customer satisfaction.
Make better design decisions by detecting potential defects before a die is built. Even the most complex profiles can be validated for production with Simcenter Inspire Extrude Metal. Using the geometry creation and simplification tools, CAD can be quickly de-featured and modified inside the tool, ensuring potential profile distortion, damage from deflection, backend contamination, charge weld defects, bad seam weld, bad grain size, overheating profile quality, and poor surface quality issues are corrected early in development.
Lower scrap rates can be achieved by exploring process improvements on a virtual press. Simulation allows you to see inside your production line and fine-tune process variables to reduce visible and invisible defects. Simcenter Inspire Extrude Metal provides quick studies of extrusion die performance, an understanding of profile deformation, visualization of temperatures in the part, modeling of the elastic and elasto-plastic properties of the tool assembly, correcting die using automatic bearing optimization, predictions of quenching rates.
Design for efficient polymer extrusion
Every extrusion company is looking to eliminate costly prototypes and reduce redesign cycles. Now advanced physics simulations are accessible to organizations of all sizes. Simcenter Inspire Extrude Polymer is an easy-to-learn tool that enables simulation to be used by any engineer or designer to increase their understanding of how profile features and process variables interact for any particular polymer. It will help your team achieve productivity gains by reducing product development costs and improve extrusion quality, increasing production yield and customer satisfaction.
Make better design decisions by detecting potential defects before a die is built. Even the most complex profiles can be validated for production with Simcenter Inspire Extrude Polymer. Using the geometry creation and simplification tools, CAD can be quickly de-featured and modified inside the tool, ensuring potential defects such as unbalanced flow, overheating profile quality, and poor surface quality issues are corrected early in development.
Complete stamping simulation environment
Simcenter Inspire Form is a complete stamping simulation environment that can effectively be used by product designers and process engineers to optimize designs, simulate robust manufacturing and reduce material costs.
With the fast and easy feasibility module, users can analyze parts in seconds to predict formability early in the product development cycle. The automated blank nesting proposes an efficient layout of the flattened blank on the sheet coil to maximize material utilization.
The tryout module includes a highly scalable incremental solver, helping users to iterate and simulate multi-stage forming, trimming and springback in a modern and intuitive user interface, reducing complexity and making the production of high quality parts more economical.
Injection molding simulation
Injection molding of plastics is an established, proven industrial manufacturing process for the mass production of identical components. Simcenter Inspire Mold provides a modern integrated approach to streamline design for manufacturing (DfM) of injection molded components. Simulation is finally democratized and placed in the hands of designers and product engineers early in the development cycle, enabling easy exploration of options and delivering improved products, reduced scrap, and tooling rework costs.
Understand how the mold fills with a fast analysis, then dig deeper into the process with a detailed simulation of all the advanced physics.
Virtual testing, validation, correction, and optimization of molding designs can be easily performed through a five-step workflow, providing access to evaluation of injection molded part manufacturability that mitigates common manufacturing defects (warping, sink marks, short shots, etc.) long before a mold is made.
Simcenter offers a comprehensive set of solutions to develop innovative, manufacturable products faster: from the initial design of the part and understanding the injection molding process, to material mapping of reinforced engineering polymers and efficiently analyzing and optimizing the structural and fatigue performance of complex parts.
Polyurethane foam simulation
Rigid and flexible polyurethane foams, also known as cellular or expanded polymers, surround us. Their important attributes like lightweight, adaptable strength per unit weight, and insulation characteristics, as well as their inherently high sustainability make them attractive for an increasingly wide range of industrial and household applications.
Simcenter Inspire Polyfoam provides a modern integrated approach to streamline design for manufacturing (DfM) of flexible molded foam components and rigid foam panels. Placing simulation in the hands of designers and product engineers early in the development cycle enables easy exploration of options that deliver improved products, and reduced scrap and tooling rework costs.
Virtual testing, validation, correction and optimization of designs can be easily performed through a five-step setup workflow to evaluate molded foam part manufacturability, mitigating common manufacturing defects caused by shrinkage and porosity long before a mold is made.
Simcenter offers a comprehensive set of solutions to develop innovative, manufacturable products faster from the initial part design and understanding the entire molding process, to efficiently analyzing and optimizing the performance of complex parts.
Efficient design for additive manufacturing
Join the additive manufacturing (AM) revolution of optimized 3D part design and fabrication, which is rapidly being adopted across numerous industries worldwide. By quickly understanding changes to processes or designs that affect manufacturability, engineers can then export the part and support structure geometry to major 3D printer preparation software to produce the part. As a result, Simcenter Inspire 3D Print significantly cuts product development and additive manufacturing costs by reducing material usage, print times, and post-processing.
Metal binder jetting
Often used for creating complex, high-precision metal or ceramic parts for tooling, binder jetting (BJT) selectively deposits a liquid binding agent over selected areas of a powder bed. The part is created layer by layer where the binder bonds the powder particles rather than by fusion. The printed “green body” part is then post-processed and consolidated by infiltration and sintering.
With Simcenter Inspire 3D Print, it’s easy to define the print part, oven, orientation, and setters for a metal BJT simulation, then perform a shrinkage and compensation analysis.
Powder bed fusion
The most common technology for the additive manufacturing of metallic parts, especially for aerospace and biomedical applications, powder bed fusion (PBF) is a process in which thermal energy (laser or electron beam) selectively melts or sinters regions of a thin layer of hot powder on the build bed. To avoid oxidation, most PBF processing occurs in a vacuum chamber under inert gas. Many proprietary process variants exist, including selective laser melting (SLM). By using the inherent strain method, Simcenter Inspire 3D Print avoids the need for thermomechanical properties of the material using a calibration approach that provides much faster computing of a model’s deformation and residual stresses
3D rendering and animation powerhouse
Simcenter Inspire Render is the new 3D rendering and animation powerhouse for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists to produce stunning product presentations faster than ever before.
Quickly create, modify, and drag-and-drop a variety of materials and add lighting environments to generate images and animations in real-time with the built-in high-quality, physically-based global illumination rendering engine Thea Render. Find it all in a slick and efficient user experience that fulfills the needs of novice and expert users alike.
Supporting CUDA and OpenCL, Simcenter Inspire Render leverages the latest high-end graphic processor technology. No dedicated GPU card? No problem, fast production rendering by the software’s interactive Presto/IR engine enables immediate feedback on production quality, while being versatile, quick, and fun to use.
All-in-one industrial design solution
Simcenter Inspire Studio is the new solution for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. With unrivaled flexibility and precision, its unique construction history feature combined with multiple modeling techniques empowers users throughout the creative process.
Offering a sleek and efficient user experience, Simcenter Inspire Studio suits the needs of expert and novice users alike. Each tool and workflow are optimized for an efficient design experience from initial sketches to exploring styling with polygonal, freeform, and PolyNURBS parametric modeling.
