Altair 3-Matic

What is Altair 3-Matic?

3-matic allows you to modify and reform the project, allowing (re) to design CAD data, scanned or optimized for topology for 3D printing. 3-matic is the ideal tool to clean and improve the surface quality of approximate topology data.

3-matic allows you to create complex, 3D printable internal and external structures that increase strength, provide cushioning, increase porosity or simply reduce the weight of your design (lightweight structures). Plus, you can easily enhance your design with textures, perforations, and aesthetic or functional patterns. Because you work directly with STL data, your design is ready for FEA analysis or can be used for 3D printing.

Key features and benefits

The 3-matic comes standard with sketcher and CAD functions, which help simplify topology data if needed. Working directly at STL levels generates a high degree of freedom: parts of the geometry can be easily replaced by another geometry, projected in 3-matic or imported from a CAD package. In addition, 3-matic contains several operations to improve the surface quality of topology data, and parts of a project can be replaced by a truss structure. Finally, making changes directly to the STL data makes your design immediately ready for FEA analysis or 3D printing.

Main features:

• Convert CAD data to STL
• Perform boolean pinning operations or operations on STL files
• Group and debt sets of triangles on surfaces to create structure in an STL file (various segmentation methods are provided)
• Perform surface level and surface contour level operations
• Use additional elements in a part, such as curves and sketches
• Recreate analytical shapes (cylinders, planes) in the topology with just one click.
• Replace rough surfaces using splines and surface reconstruction algorithms, making the newly created surface tangent to the existing surface
• Apply truss structures
• Smooth, clean, and redraw raw output after stl-level topology optimization
• Easily compare and combine different topology results into one
• Optimize surface quality to immediately prepare it for next steps in the process
• Save time by avoiding iterations in a CAD package
• Extensive volume and surface mesh capabilities to quickly simulate a given geometry in FEA
• Export to CAD (resource recognition can be applied) or FEA
• Get better products on the market faster

Industrial Applications

The 3-matic is used in many industries, including:

• Automotive: Interior design, concept cars, wind tunnel models
• Aerospace: Light Parts
• Physician: Porly structures
• Consumer goods
• Orthopedics and Footwear

Product interfaces

3-matic has interfaces with Altair's Evolve, Inspire and OptiStruct.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768