Important new features for crash and safety users have also been implemented. A brand new desktop tool called ConnectMe™ has been developed to efficiently manage, launch and update all the products within the HyperWorks suite. "HyperWorks 2017 adds key enhancements to the modeling and assembly capabilities of the software," said James P. Dagg, Chief Technical Officer, User Experience at Altair. "Users can now communicate directly with their enterprise PLM system, storing libraries of parts and configurations of their models. Tasks like setting up a model with multiple configurations for different disciplines can now be done in minutes." Multiphysics Analysis and Performance : Major speed and scalability improvements have been implemented for all the Altair solvers. In particular, structural analysis capabilities for OptiStruct ® have been further elevated to support the most complex nonlinear contact and material models.