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Altair One Home provides quick and easy access to your pinned applications, running desktops, recent jobs and files, and default and shared appliance statuses.
Altair Drive
Easily store, access, and manage your file and folders using Altair Drive storage service for hosting files in the cloud.
View Files and Folders
View files and folders that you have recently accessed or files that have been recently shared with you.
Generate File Preview
Generate a preview for the model result files to view its animation results.

Welcome
What's New
Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair One.
Overview
Explore collaborative access to simulation and data analytics technology plus scalable High Performance Computing (HPC) and cloud resources, all in one place with Altair One.
Tutorials
View a video to learn about the latest features of Altair One.
Get Started at AltairOne.com
Sign-in to gain quick access to the Altair One applications to create appliances, manage your files or folders, browse through Altair and Altair Partner applications, community and support channels and to view your license usage.
HPC Workflows in Altair One
Altair One enables users to run cloud-based simulations using the Altair License Units.
Altair One
Altair One Home provides quick and easy access to your pinned applications, running desktops, recent jobs and files, and default and shared appliance statuses.
- Altair Drive
  Easily store, access, and manage your file and folders using Altair Drive storage service for hosting files in the cloud.
  - What's New
    Here’s a quick look at the latest features available with Altair Drive and Altair Drive Desktop.
  - Tutorials
    View a video to learn about the latest features of Altair Drive and Altair One Drive Desktop.
  - Launch Altair Drive
    Launch the application to access your files, folders, and shared files.
  - Manage Files and Folders
    Manage your files and folders that you have accessed or that have been shared with you.
  - Submit Jobs and Launch Remote Sessions
    Submit jobs and launch remote sessions from Altair Drive in your preferred appliances or using Altair One default appliances.
  - Filtering, Sorting and Searching
    Use the filtering, sorting, and search capabilities to find and view a model or script.
  - View Files and Folders
    View files and folders that you have recently accessed or files that have been recently shared with you.
    - View General Information about a File or Folder
      View general information such as the name of the file or folder, creation date, size, type, last modified date and time, as well as who made the last modification.
    - View File or Folder Metadata
      View metadata that is specific to a file type.
    - View File or Folder Activity
      View the editing history information of a file or folder.
    - View All Activities
      View all activities such as create, rename, move, delete, share, unshare, version, view job status, view logs, and generate preview status on your files and folders.
    - View Shared Users
      View users or teams with whom the file or folder has been shared.
    - Upload File Preview
      Upload an image preview for your model file from your system.
    - Generate File Preview
      Generate a preview for the model result files to view its animation results.
    - View a Preview of the File Contents
      Preview the contents of a text and image file.
    - View Recent Files or Folders
      View your recently accessed files or folders.
    - View Files or Folders Shared by Me
      View the files or folders that are shared to other users.
    - View Files or Folders Shared With Me
      View the files or folders that are shared by other users.
    - View Account Folder
      View files or folders that are shared by the administrator.
  - Version Control for Altair Drive
    Altair Drive provides a version control system which enables you to track changes and collaborate with other team members.
  - 3D Viewer
    The viewer provides various options to view model details and analyze its simulations results.
  - Create Plots
    Extract plot data such as table of contents, result types, subcases, and components using the result files which has plot data. View or compare result types in a single or multi-plot layouts.
  - Advanced Search
    Build specific search for a file type, combine multiple search values by selecting correct operators (=, Like, or Is) and values (file name, file extension, metadata).
  - Manage Advanced Search Criteria
    Create, view and remove advanced search criteria.
  - Altair Drive Desktop
    Use Altair Drive Desktop to access and manage your files or folders from Windows Explorer.
  - Archived Release Notes
    Here are the release notes for features and updates to Altair Drive and Altair One Drive Desktop.
- Altair Applications
  The Applications page allows you to browse and access various software applications from Altair's suite of products.
- Altair Appliances
  Manage and monitor default and shared appliances within Altair One platform. Also, search for a specific appliance by name, status, application running with, and uptime duration.
- Jobs
  The Jobs page provides the status of your running and past jobs. Search and filter the jobs list by status, appliance, applications, duration, and owner. You can also terminate a running job.
- Desktops
  The Desktops page provides the status of your running and past desktop sessions. Filter the desktop sessions by status, duration, and owner.
- Teams
  Create teams by adding Altair users to share a file or folder with another user or team.
Administrator Dashboard
Administrator Dashboard portal providing real-time license usage for Altair managed license subscriptions.
Account Administration
Altair Dashboard is an administrative portal providing real-time license usage for Altair managed license subscriptions.
Altair Marketplace
Altair Marketplace is a digital catalogue that you can use to find, try out, and buy Altair's and Altair Partner simulation applications and services.
Altair Material Data Center
Altair Material Data Center (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.
Altair Design AI
Altair DesignAI enables you to make real-time predictions.

Generate File Preview

Generate a preview for the model result files to view its animation results.

You can view and analyze more information from the generated preview.

Navigate to a model file.
Choose one of the following option:
- Hover over a file, click > Generate Preview.
- Right-click and select Generate Preview.
  The Generate Preview dialog box is displayed.
  Figure 1. Generate Preview
Click Generate Preview. The preview is generated for the entire model file.

Note: If you wish to use the Section Explorer to view the section cuts of a model then you need to attach a JSON file.

A notification is displayed: Generating preview started for <model file>.
Note: A job is submitted to generate a preview.