Weight Analytics Documentation

2025

Home
Functional Views
Functional views are the granular views of a Product.
Data Access
The Data Access section allows you to view the Departments and enable/disable Functional View node access.

What's New
Weight Analytics 2025 Release Notes
About Weight Analytics
Get Started with Weight Analytics
Programs Management
Concept
Development
Mission
Analytics
Parts Catalog
Functional Views
Security
Currency
Customization
Help
Profile Settings
Broadcast Messages
Glossary and Abbreviations

2025

Weight Analytics Documentation

What's New
Discover new features available Weight Analytics version 2025.
Weight Analytics 2025 Release Notes
Weight & Balance Engineering, also known as Mass Properties Engineering, is the technical discipline which refers to the prediction, determination, management and tracking of the weight, Center of Gravity, and Moment of Inertia for a new product.
About Weight Analytics
Altair's Weight Analytics (WA) incorporates the weight and balance as well as cost information of a product in the design and development process.
Get Started with Weight Analytics
The Home page is the first page that you see after logging into WA.
Programs Management
The Programs > Management page allows you to create and manage programs in the database. A Program structure includes Versions, Variants, and Products in the order of hierarchy.
Concept
In WA, a Concept is similar to a Product in development, with a few key differences.
Development
This section allows you to manage the Bills of Material (BoMs) available for each Product in the system.
Mission
WA provides a powerful and comprehensive mission simulation module which allows you to calculate the evolution of the weight during the flight and to monitor how this curve changes over the product life cycle.
Analytics
The Analytics section of WA allows you to create reports and charts and they are available in a dashboard.
Parts Catalog
This section allows you to manage parts, their weight and cost, and compare assemblies.
Functional Views
Functional views are the granular views of a Product.
- Structure Management
  Weight Analytics allows you to add a new Functional View, edit, copy, or delete the Functional Views, sort the nodes in a Functional View, and manage the Functional View structure.
- View the Mapping Table
  Weight Analytics allows you to map the Functional View with the selected node.
- Data Access
  The Data Access section allows you to view the Departments and enable/disable Functional View node access.
  - Department Functional View Mapping
    Weight Analytics allows you to define the mapping between Departments and Functional View Nodes. This mapping controls what a user assigned to a specific Department can see during navigation.
  - User Data Access
    Weight Analytics allows you to see how a Department is mapped for each defined Functional View with respect to the selected user.
Security
This section describes how to use the Admin Interface to manage security options.
Currency
The Currency section of Weight Analytics allows you to manage currencies and their exchange rates using historical methods.
Customization
Customization allows you to export Snapshot grid details, add Refrence System Catalogs, create and manage departments, and so on.
Help
The Help section of Weight Analytics provides information about the product version, Help contents, and so on.
Profile Settings
WA allows you to view or edit your profile settings and general information and change your login password.
Broadcast Messages
As a WA Administrator, you can insert a warning broadcast message that is immediately visible to all users connected to WA.
Glossary and Abbreviations

Weight Analytics Documentation

2025

Home
Functional Views
Functional views are the granular views of a Product.
Data Access
The Data Access section allows you to view the Departments and enable/disable Functional View node access.

What's New
Weight Analytics 2025 Release Notes
About Weight Analytics
Get Started with Weight Analytics
Programs Management
Concept
Development
Mission
Analytics
Parts Catalog
Functional Views
Security
Currency
Customization
Help
Profile Settings
Broadcast Messages
Glossary and Abbreviations

Data Access

The Data Access section allows you to view the Departments and enable/disable Functional View node access.

Department Functional View Mapping
Weight Analytics allows you to define the mapping between Departments and Functional View Nodes. This mapping controls what a user assigned to a specific Department can see during navigation.
User Data Access
Weight Analytics allows you to see how a Department is mapped for each defined Functional View with respect to the selected user.

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