Teacher's Guide
Choose the subject you teach below, to see which product to use, download relevant teaching packages and find courses for your students to self learn.
Subjects
Math, Scripting & Visualization
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | 0D modeling using equations directly | Compose | Teaching Package: FREE eBook:
Learning Course: |
![]() | 1D modeling using block diagrams including connectivity to 3D models | Activate | FREE eBooks: Learning Course: |
![]() | 1D embedded systems development | Embed |
Analysis
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | Theory of Finite Element Method - Fundamentals | product independent | Learning Course: |
![]() | Finite Element Model Verification | product independent | Learning Course: |
![]() | Linear static & modal analysis | Inspire (great for design students) | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Course: |
![]() | Linear, nonlinear, thermal, dynamic analysis | SimSolid (quick and accurate simulation, great for design students & early design studies) | Free eBook: Learning Course: |
![]() | Linear & nonlinear analysis (contact, material, large displacements) | HyperMesh (Preprocessing) OptiStruct (Analysis) HyperView (Postprocessing) | Teaching Package(s):
Free eBooks:
Learning Courses:
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![]() | Modal, dynamics, thermal, fatigue analysis | HyperMesh (Preprocessing) OptiStruct (Analysis) HyperView HyperGraph (Postprocessing) | Teaching Package(s):
Free eBooks:
Learning Courses: |
![]() | Composite analysis | HyperMesh (Preprocessing) OptiStruct (Analysis) HyperView HyperGraph (Postprocessing) | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Courses: |
![]() | Explicit analysis (crash, impact, highly nonlinear) | RADIOSS (Analysis) HyperMesh (Preprocessing) HyperView HyperGraph (Postprocessing) | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Course: |
Multibody Simulation
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | Model building, analysis, postprocessing | MotionView (Preprocessing) MotionSolve (Analysis) | Free eBook: Learning Course: |
![]() | Model building, analysis, postprocessing | Inspire (Motion) (great for design students) | Free eBook: Learning Course: |
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | Analysis | AcuSolve | |
![]() | External Aerodynamics | Virtual Wind Tunnel | Free eBook: |
Electromagnetics
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | Antenna design & placement, EM Compatibility | Feko | Learning Courses:
Free eBook: |
![]() | eMotor design | FluxMotor | |
![]() | Sensors, high power electrical equipment, heat treatment | Flux | Free eBook: |
![]() | Propagation modeling | WinProp |
Optimization
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | Light weight, topology, topography, size, gauge, shape optimization | OptiStruct | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Courses:
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![]() | Composite optimization | OptiStruct | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Course: |
![]() | Light weight, topology topography, size, gauge | Inspire (great for design students) | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Course: |
![]() | Optimization, stochastic, Design of Experiments (DoE) | HyperStudy (to be used in combination with a solver, e.g. FEKO, AcuSolve, RADIOSS, ...) | Free eBooks: Learning Course: |
Manufacturing
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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3D Printing (ALM) | Inspire Print 3D | Inspire Print3D is embedded in Inspire as a module. | |
![]() | Casting simulation | Inspire Cast | Teaching Package: Free eBook: Learning Course: |
Stamping simulation (multi-stage forming, trimming and springback) | Inspire Form | ||
Extrusion simulation (metal & polymer) | Inspire Extrude Metal Inspire Extrude Polymer |
Industrial Design
Task | Product | Remarks | |
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![]() | Sketching & rendering | Inspire Studio Inspire Render Thea Render |