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Structures
Set up your model and run a structural analysis or optimization.
Structural Analysis
Set up and run a linear static analysis using the SimSolid or OptiStruct solver. You can also analyze normal modes and buckling modes.
View Structures Analysis Results
Use the Show Analysis Results tool to view the results of a linear static, normal modes, or buckling modes analysis in the Analysis Explorer. View and animate results, add callouts, and compare results from different runs.
Create Field
Create an implicit field from the results of an analysis run. The Create Field button is located at the bottom of the Analysis Explorer.

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Create and assign variables to parametrize a model. This allows you to quickly iterate and compare design concepts by tweaking the values of the variables.
Parametric Modeling
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Create implicit models with primitives, lattices, point clouds, fields, offsetting, Booleans, inverting, smoothing, morphing, and filleting.
Structures
Set up your model and run a structural analysis or optimization.
- Model Setup
  Create connections and apply loads, constraints, materials, and manufacturing controls to your model.
- Structural Analysis
  Set up and run a linear static analysis using the SimSolid or OptiStruct solver. You can also analyze normal modes and buckling modes.
  - SimSolid vs. OptiStruct Analysis
    You can choose whether to use SimSolid or OptiStruct as the solver when running a structural analysis.
  - Run Options: Local vs. Remote
    Choose whether to run jobs locally or on a remote job server.
  - Run Analysis and Export a Solver Model
    Define and run a linear static, normal modes, or buckling modes analysis, and then optionally export a solver model.
  - View Structures Analysis Results
    Use the Show Analysis Results tool to view the results of a linear static, normal modes, or buckling modes analysis in the Analysis Explorer. View and animate results, add callouts, and compare results from different runs.
    - Show Results in the Analysis Explorer
      Use the Analysis Explorer to view the results of an analysis.
    - Analysis Explorer Options
      The Analysis Explorer includes options that allow you to select a run, display a result type, add callouts, and adjust how the results are shown.
    - Show Options
      Determine what is made visible in the modeling window when viewing analysis results. You can show or hide the initial shape, loads and supports, deformation, and/or contours.
    - Callout Options
      Add visual callouts to show points of interest on your analysis results.
    - Compare Results
      Compare the results of multiple analysis runs in a table. The Compare Results button is located at the bottom of the Analysis Explorer.
    - Multiwindow Results
      Visualize analysis and optimization results with multiple modeling windows that show the results of each run.
    - Create Field
      Create an implicit field from the results of an analysis run. The Create Field button is located at the bottom of the Analysis Explorer.
  - Analysis Result Types for Structures
    Inspire provides several types of linear static analysis results, as well as normal modes and buckling modes analysis.
  - Animate and Record Results
    Use the Animation Toolbar that appears at the bottom of the modeling window to animate and record results.
- Structural Optimization
  Set up and run a topology, topography, or gauge optimization.
- Report
  Generate PPT or PDF reports from analysis results. The Report tools are available after you have run an analysis.
Motion
Inspire Motion provides Multibody Simulation (MBS) capabilities to analyze the motion, dynamics, and interactions of interconnected rigid or flexible bodies within a system.
Fluids
Prepare and run a computational fluid dynamics simulation.
Design Explorer
Evaluate designs by using geometric variables and applying a design-of-experiments (DOE) or optimization method. We recommend fully constraining your sketch when sketch variables are used in the design exploration.
Manufacture
Set up and run a basic porosity or thinning analysis.
Print 3D
Prepare and run an additive manufacturing simulation, and export a file for 3D printing.
Rendering
Adjust the materials and environment of objects in the scene to create a photorealistic image.
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Create Field

Create an implicit field from the results of an analysis run. The Create Field button is located at the bottom of the Analysis Explorer.

View the analysis results in the Analysis Explorer.

Click the Show Analysis Results tool on the Analyze icon to open the Analysis Explorer.

Note: Only OptiStruct results are supported in direct implicit field creation. For SimSolid results, see Video Tutorial: Field-Driven Design in Inspire Implicit Modeling.

Tip: To find and open a tool, press Ctrl+F. For more information, see Find and Search for Tools.
Use the Analysis Explorer dialog to select the results to convert to an implicit field.
Click the Create Field button located at the bottom of the Analysis Explorer.

For more information, see Create Implicit Fields from Analysis Results.
If an implicit part exists, a dialog will ask whether to create a new implicit part or add the field to an existing implicit part.
- Click New to create a new implicit part in the Model Browser and Construction History. The new part will only contain the new field(s) using simulation data.
- Click Existing to select an implicit part in the model. The new fields are created at the current point in the history timeline.