What’s new in Simcenter Inspire 2026.1
The latest Simcenter Inspire release enhances design exploration with AI-powered workflow, advanced modeling capabilities, and improved simulation efficiency across multiple engineering disciplines. In this blog you will find some of our highlights, to get the comprehensive list of everything new in the latest release review the release notes on support center.
AI-driven Workflow
Simcenter Inspire 2026.1 expands AI-powered simulation by enabling engineers to train PhysicsAI models from existing simulation data and predict results directly within Inspire. Models can be trained using structural analyses from Simcenter Optistruct and Simcenter Simsolid, as well as Cast, Mold, Form, and Extrude workflows available in Simcenter Inspire, providing broad coverage across engineering applications. Predicted results are displayed on new geometry without requiring a full solver run, helping teams evaluate design changes earlier, accelerate iteration cycles, and make informed engineering decisions while reducing reliance on time-intensive simulation workflows.
Expanded implicit modeling
Simcenter Inspire 2026.1 introduces powerful enhancements in Implicit capabilities that simplify the creation of complex, adaptive designs while improving modeling robustness. New implicit CAD operations, including Extrude, Revolve, and Sweep, enable field-driven geometry that remains reliable even in challenging modeling scenarios. Expanded GUI access to mathematical functions eliminates the need for Python scripting, making advanced implicit modeling more accessible to a wider range of users. Together, these capabilities streamline the development of sophisticated field-based designs, support greater automation, and provide engineers with more flexible, efficient workflows for creating optimized geometries.
Multi-profile support
Simcenter Inspire 2026.1 introduces a unified multi-profile experience that brings all Inspire tools, solvers, and workflows into a single user interface. Engineers can seamlessly switch between structures, motion, fluids, and manufacturing profiles without changing environment, creating a more efficient and connected design process. By consolidating capabilities into one interface, Simcenter Inspire 2026.1 reduces workflow interruptions, improves efficiency, and enables faster exploration of design alternatives. The result is a more streamlined design and manufacturing solution that supports productivity from concept through production.
Streamline multibody simulation workflow with Simcenter Inspire
Engineering teams often add time and risk by recreating the same models for different multibody simulation tests. This release of Motion Analyst closes that gap with Analysis, a virtual test lab that lets you define a complete test environment and run it as one connected workflow. An Analysis builds on the base model by adding test-specific behavior such as changing the properties or states of joints, springs, or inputs. Along with model changes, it includes a clear, ordered sequence of steps, such as static and transient simulations. Each step runs in sequence, and the output of one becomes the input to the next, just like a physical test. The result is a more efficient set up, and faster virtual testing that engineers can trust.
Real-time GPU accelerated Fluid simulation
Simcenter Inspire Fluids 2026.1 introduces real-time geometry editing, allowing engineers to modify designs and immediately visualize the impact on fluid flow and performance. By eliminating the delays associated with traditional CFD workflows, the new capability enables faster design iterations and a more intuitive understanding of how geometric changes influence simulation results. This streamlined approach reduces workflow complexity, accelerates product development, and empowers users to optimize fluid performance earlier in the design process, helping drive more informed decisions and greater design innovation.
Summary
Simcenter Inspire 2026.1 brings together AI-powered engineering, unified workflows and enhanced simulation capabilities to simplify engineering processes and accelerate innovation from concept to validation.
A new era for Simcenter
And it does not stop there. With the Simcenter June 2026 release we are bringing together Simcenter and Altair – two of the world’s most powerful simulation portfolios – in a defining moment for engineering.
Gain access to the broadest range of capabilities across modeling and visualization, mechanical, fluids, electromagnetics, systems, HPC, data science, and AI—helping accelerate innovation, simplify workflows, and drive smarter decisions with confidence.
