Altair Inspire Extrude Metal

Design for Efficient Metal Extrusion

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What is Altair Inspire Extrude Metal

Every extrusion company is looking to eliminate costly prototypes and reduce redesign cycles. Now advanced physics simulations are accessible to organizations of all sizes. Altair 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 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. 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.

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Why Altair Inspire Extrude Metal

Efficient and Process-driven

Quick and easy to learn. After only a few hours of standard training new users are confidently working with Altair Inspire Extrude Metal.

Design Optimal Dies and Parts

Save time and costly die rework with virtual die trials with Altair Inspire Extrude Metal to produce quality-assured, complex shaped extruded products.

Reduce Manufacturing Cost

Applying Altair Inspire Extrude Metal simulation starting at the concept design phase avoids costly prototyping of competing concepts, redesigns and retooling: all before the die is manufactured.

Altair Inspire Extrude Metal Features

Geometry Creation and Simplification

Correct, modify, and de-feature solid models using Altair Inspire Extrude Metal’s modeling tools.

Easy-to-learn Environment

The intuitive, process-driven user experience enables users to gain deep manufacturing insights quickly, driving faster and better design decisions.

Extrusion Analysis

Investigate extrusion die performance, visualize profile deformation, temperature in extruded part, elastic and elastoplastic analysis on tool assembly, perform quenching analysis.

Optimization Options

Automatically optimize bearing length with Altair Inspire Extrude Metal to avoid expensive die rework.

Avoid Defects

Easily predict and plot all common extrusion defects: distortion, backend contamination, charge weld defects, seam welds, bad grain size, overheating, die wear, poor surface quality.