Altair Inspire Mold 2022 includes the following new features and enhancements.
General
Dark Theme
Dark Theme is now supported throughout Inspire. You can change the theme in the Preferences under Workspace > Theme.

Advanced Screen Capture
Several new features have been added to the settings for the Advanced Screen Capture feature available in the File menu. These include the ability to copy an image to the clipboard, as well as options to either show a file save dialog or save files to a default location. These options can also be accessed from the Preferences.

Molding
Packing for Fast Solver
The packing stage is now included when running a fast analysis. This allows you to quickly analyze results like velocities, temperatures, and pressures during the packing process.

Geometry
Keyboard Shortcuts for Sketching
When outside of sketch editing mode, you can now press the S key and select a face to create a new sketch. Once in sketch mode, you can quickly access the most commonly used sketch tools with the following shortcut keys:

New Pipe Tool
You can now turn lines and edges into a pipe. The pipe has a uniform cross section that can be circular, square, rectangular, or triangular.
New Slice Tool
In addition to slicing a part with a cutting plane, you can now slice a part with a surface. The surface must at least partially intersect the part.
New Intersect Surfaces Tool
You can now retain only the intersecting portions of one or more parts. This is a "smart" intersect tool that automatically deletes excess faces, edges, and vertices.
Extrude Tool Updates
The Extrude tool has been enhanced for this release. You can now extrude all types of profiles, as well as 2D surfaces in one or two directions, to create solids or 3D surfaces with optional end caps. In addition, you can now extrude in a custom direction by either (1) selecting a reference geometry to which you want to align the extruded shape or (2) freely orienting the extruded shape by dragging the curved arrow or entering an angle in the microdialog.
Pattern Tool Updates
The Pattern tool has been enhanced and now allows you to perform Boolean operations on the results, as well as merging with all or selected parts. In addition, the new Copies to Skip option allows you to select copies to exclude from the pattern. For linear patterns, selecting the Seed Only checkbox will restrict the pattern to the first row and column.
Draft Tool Updates
You can now add draft to one or more faces of a part when designing a product that is manufactured using injection molding.
Additional Changes and Enhancements for Geometry
- The workflow for the Boolean Combine tool has been updated.
- Performance improvements for import of CAD files.
- Inspire now supports the following file format versions for import:


Altair Inspire Moldprovides 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.
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Introducing Altair Inspire Mold
Altairis a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data analytics. Altair enables organizations across broad industry segments to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future.