Altair Compose 2019.4

Altair announced the release of Compose 2019.4206, is a high level, matrix-based numerical computing language as well as an interactive & unified programming environment for all types of math.

About Altair solidThinking Compose. Altair’s solidThinking has released a suite of products that is aimed toward the model-based design (MBD) and systems simulation market. This new suite of products uses math, signal-based physical and 3D models to produce early concept designs, control algorithms and system performance optimizations.

The new suite is made up of three products: solidThinking Compose, solidThinking Activate and solidThinking Embed. Much of the technology available in the new product is based on Altair VisSim, which will now be rebranded as Embed.

Using solidThinking Compose, engineers and scientists will be able to produce high-level matrix-based computations. The programming software is able to perform various math operations from matrix analysis, differential equations, signal analysis and control design.

In this respect, the product sounds much like MATLAB or Maple. In fact, the software is able to mix signal-based and physical-based components from Modelica within a single diagram.

One big benefit of Compose is that it has a built-in connectivity to the pre-/post-process data from Altair computer-aided engineering (CAE) software.

Compose has the following math libraries:

- Statistical data analysis & visualization
- Matrix analysis & number theory
- Signal processing
- Interactive 2D & 3D plotting
- Differential equations
- Optimization