Altair Evolve

What is Altair Evolve?

What is Evolve?

Evolve is a high-quality 3D hybrid modeling and rendering environment that enables industrial designers to evaluate, search, and visualize multiple projects faster than ever before. Evolve runs on Mac OS X and Windows.

Evolve 2017 introduces several new enhancements, including:

• New tools of planar and radial symmetry.
• New length parameter for the Rounded Line and Polyline tools.
• Improved curve displacement tool to work directly on surface edges.
• Depth channel added to the rendered tiff images to create depth of field.
• New and improved import/export for SVG, PDF 2D, DWG and DXF formats.

Why evolve?

Unmatched flexibility

Evolve allows your users to mix and combine modeling techniques quickly without additional plugins. These tools give users the flexibility to create complex freeform shapes with polygonal modeling, maintain technical precision with solid modeling, and use traditional tools like mixes and sweeps, all within a tool, in perfect harmony.

Multiple concepts in minutes

Due to evolve's unmatched flexibility and build history, Evolve users can quickly create and explore multiple iterations and make changes in real time without any rework. Evolve enhances creativity by allowing designers to drive the design, not the software that guides it.

Beautiful presentation

Evolve features industry-leading integrated rendering. Use Evolve's internal rendering to create stunning photo-realistic images directly within the modeling window without exporting to third-party tools.

Evolution resources

Best Construction History

Unlimited build history provides real-time updates when modifications are made.

Polygonal Modeling

Evolve has an advanced polygonal modeler with support for n-side polygons.

Realistic rendering of photos in real time

Take advantage of a truly comprehensive rendering system that integrates all industry-leading rendering techniques.

Advanced MODELING OF NURBS

Evolve uses Nurbs (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) as its type of geometry. This method of defining curve and surface offers the greatest flexibility and accuracy. What other people are saying

Reverse engineering

Reverse engineering with features that include point-of-tuning, PointCloud, planar clouds, and PointCloud curves

Animation

Take your design presentations to the next level by creating realistic photo animations. Create Quicktime VR videos or movies to communicate complex ideas, or import H3D files to produce stunning simulations.

System requirements

Supported operating systems

Mac OS X 10.5 x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB of RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS