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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.
3D Viewer
The viewer provides various options to view model details and analyze its simulations results.
View the File Contents in 3D
View the generated preview of a model file in 3D format and read its details.

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.
    - View the File Contents in 3D
      View the generated preview of a model file in 3D format and read its details.
    - Visualize Simulation Results Using the Result Browser
      The Result Browser enables you to visualize results for model files containing simulation data for results, load cases and result types. You can customize legends for color and precision, show and hide contours and add callouts to the model for effective analysis and visualization.
    - Hotspot Finder
      Use the Hotspot Finder tool to find critical regions of your model based on a plotted result, filter the entities based on selection set, threshold values, minimum separation, and load cases.
    - Add a Section Cut
      Prepare a specification file to view the section cuts of a model using Section Explorer.
    - View Section Cuts
      View the generated preview of a section cut.
    - Add a Comment
      Add a comment about a shared model file.
    - Add Comments with Markup
      Use the markup tools to share an annotated image of a model file.
    - Add a New Scene
      Capture the visualization state of 3D with the supported content using Scene Explorer.
  - 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.

View the File Contents in 3D

View the generated preview of a model file in 3D format and read its details.

For a 3D model file, Altair Drive provides associated 3D view controls to move (rotate, zoom, and so on). You can preview the content and view 3D using the 3D viewer .

Watch the below video to see how the content of a .stmod file can be manipulated using the 3D viewer:

Select a file or folder.
Choose one of the following options:
- Hover over a file or folder, click .
- Select the file or folder and click Info on the Action Ribbon.
Figure 1. File Action Ribbon
- Right-click the file or folder, click Info from the context menu.
- Double-click the file or folder.
A window opens to the right of the file.
By default, the Info tab displays the general information of the selected file or folder.
Figure 2. Info Panel
Click to view and edit the text files.
If you are an owner of the file and have edit role permissions for the shared files then the text files can be edited using the text editor and save the changes.

Click

to view the file contents in 3D.

Tip: Click

to view the contents of the file in full screen mode.

Figure 3. 3D View


Icon	Description
	Click to view an isometric fit view of a model file.
	Click to view the parts of a model file.
	Click to save a preview for a model file.
	Click to view an orthographic projection, a form of parallel projection of a model file.
	Click to view perspective projection, a centre of projection of the model file,
	Click to rotate to the closest principal axis.
	Click to view, a fit into the screen view of a model file.
	Click to select the section view of a model file.
	Click to explode the model parts. You can use the scroll bar to zoom in and zoom out the model parts.
	Use this icon to rotate the model file and view its details or press the arrows on the icon to change the model file view.
Move the mouse scroller	Use to zoom in and zoom out the 3D model view.