SOLIDTHINKING INSPIRE 2017.1:
​GAUGE OPTIMIZATION, MOTION, TOPOGRAPHY OPTIMIZATION, AND MORE!

solidThinking Inspire allows design engineers, product designers and architects to investigate structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily. This can lead to reduced costs, development time, material consumption, and product weight. 

The new featured-packed release of solidThinking Inspire 2017 introduces many groundbreaking new features including:

• The new Motion tool allows users to easily mechanize their models and investigate system motion to predict loads for moving parts.
• The Topography Optimization tools can be used to change shapes of shell structures by introducing stamped bead patterns for better structural performance.
• Updated Partition Tools allow users to divide a part into design and non-design regions by selecting a hole, pocket, or face to offset.
• The Bolt Pretension tool allows users to achieve more accurate results when bolts are under pretension.

In addition to the best-in-class features added in solidThinking Inspire 2017, the latest release, Inspire 2017.1 adds the following new features:

• The new Gauge Optimization feature allows users to optimize the thickness of surface parts. Gauge optimization can be run by itself, or at the same time as topography optimization.
• Motion analysis results for a part can now be extracted for use in structural (FE) analysis and optimization. Peak loads will be automatically extracted from the motion simulation and used in analysis and optimization runs.
• Users can now define forces, torques, and g-Loads in terms of their x, y, z components.
• When optimizing fasteners, users can now constrain the axial and shear forces using the optimization properties in the Property Editor.

THE INSPIRE 2017 WORKFLOW

Generating the ideal part concept in Inspire is quick and easy. View the Inspire 2017 workflow below.
​Click on each step to see a quick video demo.

Sketch or Import a Part

Defeature the Part

Define Fasteners, Joints and Contacts

Assign Materials and Loads

Generate Ideal Shape

Refine using PolyNURBS or Export to CAD

Verify Performance

Manufacture