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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.
Submit a Job
Submit a job by selecting an input file from your mounted location in Windows Explorer.
View Shared Files or Folders
View the files or folders that are shared by other users.

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.
    - Submit a Job
      Submit a job by selecting an input file from your mounted location in Windows Explorer.
      - Generate Model File Preview
        Submit a request to Altair Drive for generating a preview for a model file from your mounted location.
      - Share a File or Folder from Windows Explorer
        Share your files or folders with another user or team from Windows Explorer.
      - View Shared Files or Folders
        View the files or folders that are shared by other users.
    - 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.

View Shared Files or Folders

View the files or folders that are shared by other users.

You can modify the shared files or folders based on the permissions provided to you.

In the case of concurrent save action on the same content by different users, only the updates committed by the first user is synched between Altair Drive and the mounting location. The updates of other users will fail but will be temporarily cached in the Altair Drive Desktop cache location. Also, an error message will be posted in the other user activity window of the application and the log file. The file updates will be available for three days, after which the cache file will be automatically deleted. User would need to validate the latest file updates in Altair Drive and make the necessary changes.

Note: You must be connected to Altair One to access the latest file contents of a shared file or folder.

On the Home tab, click Open MyFiles.
Your mounted Altair Drive files are displayed in a Windows Explorer.
Figure 1. Mounted Altair Drive
Click on the mounted drive of your profile.
The Windows Explorer displays MyFiles and SharedWithMe folders.
Figure 2. Mounted Altair Drive-Profile
Click SharedWithMe folder to view the files or folders that are shared by other users.
A list of the user folders who have shared files or folders with you is displayed.
Figure 3. Altair Drive - Shared Users Folder
Double-click the user folder to view the files that are shared with you.

Figure 4. Shared User Files