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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.
Altair Drive Desktop
Use Altair Drive Desktop to access and manage your files or folders from Windows Explorer.
Altair Drive Desktop Home
The application Home tab provides an option to connect to Altair Drive.

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.
  - 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.
    - Installation
      Install Altair One Drive Desktop to access and manage your files or folders from Windows Explorer.
    - Add a Profile
      Add your profile using your Altair One Server URL.
    - Connect to Altair One
      Select a profile to connect to Altair One.
    - Altair Drive Desktop Home
      The application Home tab provides an option to connect to Altair Drive.
      - Manage Profiles
        Add, modify or delete your profile to access your files from Windows Explorer.
    - Submit a Job
      Submit a job by selecting an input file from your mounted location in Windows Explorer.
    - Launch Remote Session
      Launch a remote session by selecting a model file from your mounted location in Windows Explorer.
    - Version Control for Altair Drive Desktop
      Altair Drive provides a version control system which enables you to track changes and collaborate with other team members.
    - Extract Plot Data
      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 using Altair Drive.
    - Altair Drive Desktop Settings
      Set the user Altair Drive Desktop preferences.
  - 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.

Altair Drive Desktop Home

The application Home tab provides an option to connect to Altair Drive.

You can view recent activities, an option to launch Altair Drive application, open the mounted Altair Drive files location in Windows Explorer, view the storage space usage, and the preferred log details.

Connect to a Profile from Altair Drive Desktop

Select a profile and click Connect to synchronize your data with your Altair Drive account.

Altair Drive Desktop can now be accessed through Single-Sign-On (SSO) with Altair One.

Log in to Altair Drive to automatically sync your data using an authentication code with Altair Drive Desktop.

Altair Drive Desktop Home — Figure 1. Altair Drive Desktop Home

You can view all your recent activities performed from the Altair Drive Desktop Home tab.

Connect to Altair Drive

Click View Online on the Home tab of the application to launch the Files tab in Altair Drive Web application.

Connect to Altair Drive Web — Figure 2. Connect to Altair Drive Web

Open Altair Drive Desktop Files Location

Click Open MyFiles on the Home tab to open your files or folder of the selected Profile in your Windows Explorer.

Note: You must be connected to Altair One to access your files or folders from your desktop profile.

Open the folder location — Figure 3. Open the folder location

Open Common Files Location

Click Open Account Folder on the Home tab to open the files or folders shared by the Administrator in your Windows Explorer.

The administrator can provide permissions to other user to create files and folders. All users can access files and folders in this location.

Note: You must be connected to Altair One to access the files or folders from your desktop profile.

Open the common folder location — Figure 4. Open the common folder location

Open Log

Click Open Log to view the log files based on the preference you have set for the profile.

Open Log — Figure 5. View Log Details

There are four types of logs: Debug, Info, Warn and Error. You can modify the profile details and change the log type to access from the Home tab.

View Sync History

Click the Sync tab to view a history of the most recent 50 updates made from the connected profile.

Figure 6. Recent Sync History