Altair HyperWorks Licensing 2025 Release Notes
Highlights
- Altair License Manager 2025 (and its updates) is required for Altair 2025 and its updates.
- HyperWorks 9.1, 10.1, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 as well as Altair 2025 are compatible with Altair License Manager 2025.
New Features
- Product License Features
- The following Altair HyperWorks applications/tools are available under
Altair Units (AUs) licensing:
- Battery Damage Identifier
- Battery Damage Identifier can predict the behavior of mechanically damaged batteries and modules, focusing on the modeling of the mechanical and electrothermal properties of its components. A multi-physics process was designed to identify the mechanical and electrothermal properties of the homogenized material, based on the detailed composition of the cell. It contains tools to evaluate adiabatic or quasi-static temperature distribution in damaged cells. This feature requires 50 AUs.
- Altair Copilot AI Assistant for HyperWorks
- AI-powered support assistant that understands natural language and can answer questions based exclusively on Altair's online help material and other Altair knowledge sources. It takes 2 AUs for this feature.
- DSim
- DSim is a digital simulator and electronic functional
verification application. DSim Solver license draws units on
a per-CPU core basis. The unit draw is determined by the
total number of cores for all concurrent solver instances
according to a lookup table.
Number of Cores Draw per Core 1-128 10 > 129 5 - PSIM Solver
- PSIMSolver is the new license feature introduced in 2025 for the Solver in PSIM. When a simulation is executed either from within the PSIM GUI or from PSIM Solver (standalone), the PSIMSolver license feature is required. For Solver InApp licensing: PSIMSolver takes 15 AUs with Decay factor for multiple job runs. For Solver HPC licensing: the unit draw is on a per-CPU core basis. The unit draw is determined by the total number of cores for a solver according to a lookup table.
- SimLab
- SimLab v2025 introduces license feature, SimLabEDEMSolver. This feature is required when running EDEM solver in SimLab for one core. Multi-core usage follows the Solver In-App Licensing table.
- SimLab
- SimLab v2025 introduces license feature, SimLabFekoSolver. This feature is required when running Feko solver in SimLab for one core. Multi-core usage follows the Solver In-App Licensing table.
Licensing Changes
- Product Licensing Changes
- The following products have made licensing changes:
- Engineering Data Sciences
- The license feature, EngDataSciPaiShape, is used for Prediction of simulation results without requiring parametric inputs. Altair physicsAI model training requires 75 AUs. Altair physicsAI models require 75 AUs for inference within Altair modeling and visualization products, otherwise they require 150 AUs.
- romAI
- The license feature, romAI, that is required within Twin Activate to leverage ROMs for computationally expensive simulations draws 60 AUs.
- FlightStream
- The unit draws for FlightStream will no longer scale with the number of cores used. Draws will now be 50 AUs flat per instance of the application.