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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.
Drive
Easily store, access, and manage your file and folders using Altair Drive storage service for hosting files in the cloud.
Manage Files and Folders
Manage your files and folders that you have accessed or that have been shared with you.
Upload a File or Folder
Upload a file or a Zip file to the Files tab in 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.
- Drive
  Easily store, access, and manage your file and folders using Altair Drive storage service for hosting files in the cloud.
  - 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.
    - Customize File List View
      Customize your file view in three different ways.
    - Create a Folder
      Create a folder to organize your files in Altair Drive.
    - Upload a File or Folder
      Upload a file or a Zip file to the Files tab in Altair Drive.
    - Malware Scanning
      Altair Drive automatically scans uploaded files for security threats and restricts access until scanning completes. It uses Microsoft Defender to scan every file immediately after upload. This feature is available on Microsoft Azure.
    - Open a Folder
      Open folder to view, access, move or organize files and folders.
    - Rename a File or Folder
      Give a file or folder a new name.
    - Copy a File or Folder
      Copy a file or folder by copying and pasting.
    - Move a File or Folder
      Move a file or folder using cut and paste options.
    - Unshare a File or Folder
      Unshare a file or folder from users or teams.
    - Share a File or Folder
      Share a file or folder with another user or team.
    - Add File or Folder to Favorites
      Frequently used files and folders can be displayed in the favorite menu on the left pane for easy access.
    - Delete a File or Folder
      Delete a file or folder that is no longer needed.
    - Restore a Deleted File
      Recover a file that was previously deleted.
    - Download a File or Folder
      Download a file or folder to your local workstation.
    - Create a File Archive
      Compress and store a folder with one or more files as a zip archive.
    - Extract a Zip File
      Extract zip files that were uploaded, shared or moved.
  - 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.
  - Manage Tags
    Tags lets you apply structured metadata to files and folders, improving organization, discoverability, and contextual search across Drive and connected applications.
  - 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 to filter and locate files, combine multiple filter values such as file extension, content type, tags, file size, and by modification details.
  - Manage Advanced Search Criteria
    Create, update, and remove advanced search criteria.
  - Manage Storage Settings
    Site Admin has privileges to monitor organization-wide storage usage, configure usage alerts, and manage storage effectively using Drive Settings.
  - 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.
- Applications
  The Applications page allows you to browse and access various software applications by versions across Altair's suite of products.
- 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^TM (AMDC) provides accurate multi-domain material properties to enable the creation of sustainable, efficient, and lightweight designs.

Upload a File or Folder

Upload a file or a Zip file to the Files tab in Altair Drive.

While uploading a file to Altair Drive, the application reads the file contents and displays the content type automatically. The application scans the uploaded files for security threats and restricts access until scanning completes.

Note: When you upload an existing file to Altair Drive, the file name is added with the sequential number in brackets as a suffix. For example: Health_Check_Model.stmod(1) <file name (sequential number)>

You can upload one or more files at a time. You can view your storage update on the left pane once the files are uploaded.

Click from your Favorite Apps on the home page.
The Files tab is displayed.
Choose one of the following options:
- Drag and drop a file on to the right-pane.
- Click Upload on the Action Ribbon.
- Right-click and select Upload from the context menu.
The Open dialog displays your recently accessed folder path on your system.
Select a file and click Open.
The selected file starts uploading and its progress is displayed.
Figure 1. File Upload

Click fullscreen to view the current action progress.
Figure 2. Upload Progress