Altair Multiscale Designer 2024.1 Release Notes
Highlights
- Fully redesigned GUI and simplified workflows for continuous and short fiber reinforced materials
- Altair OptiStruct is used as solver for virtual tests (UNT/C,OHT/C, 3pt and
4pt bending, dogbone and railshear)
Figure 1. 
Figure 2. 
Figure 3. 
New Features
- New GUI Design with simplified workflows
- Version 2024.1 provides a fully redesigned and simplified GUI compared
to all prior versions. Some highlights of the new version are:
- Support of project-flies (mic-files) of version 2024.0
- Predefined Templates for continuous and short fiber reinforced materials
- On the fly review of nonlinear constituent material characteristics
- Simplified and improved inverse characterization workflows for continuous and short fiber reinforced materials
Known Issues
- Version 2024.1 covers the workflows for continuous fiber reinforced and short fiber reinforced materials. The generic material modeling workflow, including the support of user-defined unit cells, will be added in a future version.