“We believe the frictionless access to our entire solidThinking suite and cloud resources through this single licensing model is a market first and compelling offering for SMB and some enterprise customers,” stated Altair founder and CEO, James R. Altair Inspire automatically identifies holes, joints, and contacts in structures. This includes software such as Altair Inspire (structural modeling), Altair Activate (simulating multi-disciplinary systems), Altair Compose (programming), and many more. sTUs give customers access to the entire solidThinking portfolio of simulation-driven design products, as well as any new additions that may be added in future. This system has been developed specifically to appeal to small-to-medium businesses and startups, allowing for customized license access depending on how frequently they may need to employ solidThinking design tools. According to Altair, this helps solve traditional licensing hurdles such as high costs, limited access, multi-licensing issues, and of course paying for services that aren’t being used. These units can then be used by staff, being ‘recycled’ afterwards (returned to the pool) to be used again by others in the team. Basically, an organization can buy access to a certain pool of sTUs which it can share among team members.

The model shares similarities with the unit-based licensing model already available for Altair Hyperworks, and is based on ‘solidThinking Units’ (sTUs), which the company describes as a value-based licensing system. The new single license model (sTU licensing) allows access to the entire solidThinking library both locally and through the cloud. The new unit licensing model allows for customized access to the entire solidThinking software suite.Īltair has recently revealed a new software licensing model for its solidThinking design and engineering software package.

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