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Discover Compose, including its language support and system requirements.
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Discover Compose, including its language support and system requirements.
- Introduction to Compose
  Compose enables engineers, scientists and product creators to efficiently perform numerical computations, develop algorithms, and analyze and visualize various types of data.
- Language Support in Compose
  Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for OML, Python, TCL and R.
- System Requirements
  Supported operating systems and minimum requirements for hardware and memory.
- Online and Local Help
  Access help topics online or from your local installation.
- Online Learning
  The Altair Resource Library and Altair Community provides a host of resources to help you take full advantage of Compose.
Tutorials
The Compose tutorials and associated example model files help introduce you to the basic functionality of the software.
User Guide
Learn about the features and functionality available in Compose.
Reference Guides
Reference guides are available for functions and commands supported by OML, Tcl, and Python.
Appendix
Get help for the optional libraries that are available in the Extension Manager.
Frequently Asked Questions
You've got questions? We've got answers!

Online and Local Help

Access help topics online or from your local installation.

To access the online help, press the F1 key or select File > Help.
The online help home page or topic page opens from the Altair-hosted website.
Note: Online help requires internet access. If you do not have internet access, the help pages open from the local installation. The topics are generally the same in both the local and online help, but the online help may include updates between releases.
To set your help to open from the local installation, select File > Preferences. From the Preferences dialog, Workspace category > Help, deactivate the Use online help option.