“It gives you the design choices and shows you the options, with tremendous flexibility in altering the forces. You don't have that kind of interactivity in other structural programs.”
Peter Macapia, Architect and Professor,
LabDORA, Pratt Institute
“Altair Inspire does what computation is supposed to do, allowing you to be in the driver’s seat throughout the project,” he asserted. “It says, these are the forces, these are the forecasts of what happens. You get a vast array of responses and ways the structure can be treated materially.”
Altair Inspire is distinctive from other structural programs. Macapia explained, “It gives you the design choices and shows you the options, with tremendous flexibility in altering the forces. You don’t have that kind of interactivity in other structural programs. They are isolated from the design activity.”
“It’s been great to work with Altair Inspire,” he said. “The team has always been fantastic and supportive. The support has allowed me to produce research, and the generosity on their end has made it easier for me to work with students, providing tools to pose problems of the future. The tools from solidThinking are really open and sophisticated, and the infrastructure support has been great.”