Analyzing data, developing algorithms, or creating models – Altair Compose is designed to bring your ideas forward.
Altair Compose is an environment for doing math calculations, manipulating, and visualizing data, programming, and debugging scripts useful for repeated computations and process automation. Altair Compose allows users to perform a wide variety of math operations including linear algebra and matrix manipulations, statistics, differential equations, signal processing, control systems, polynomial fitting, and optimization.
About
Why Altair Compose?
Why Altair Compose?

Better Engineering Decisions
Perform useful engineering calculations based on first principles, either one-time or repeatedly (when archivable as reusable scripts), and with pre-or-postprocess data. Then easily plot results and make informed decisions.

Affordably All-in-One
All capabilities are available in a single, multi-functional tool with a user-friendly integrated development environment (IDE), with no additional toolboxes required.

Easily Accessible
Can be used on its own or with other Altair products, which are accessible through Altair’s innovative unit-based licensing system.
Licensing
Personal Edition
Recommended for usage by hobbyists, everyone
Personal edition features include:
- Altair Compose core product including IDE for scripting, executing, debugging, and visualizing
- Extensible OpenMatrix Language (OML) with bridges to Python and TCL provided
- Built-in tools for signal processing, control systems, system identification, optimization, and more
- Ability to import and execute scripts from Octave and MATLAB®
Business Edition
Recommended for commercial usage
All features from Personal edition are included, plus:
- CAE Readers
- Altair® HyperWorks® integration (via function registration and reuse)
- Special-purpose toolboxes
- Technical support
Student Edition
- All features of the Business edition are included
- Intended for use with project-based learning
- Useful for student competitions
- Requires validation of student enrollment at academic institution
Support
Support
Alfasoft provides free technical support to all our customers.
Please describe your problem as detailed as possible when contacting our support. Remember to always inform about your serial-/license number, product version and your operating system.
Click here to visit our Help Centre & Knowledge Base!