Altair Inspire MCP servers and AI agent skills

How AI connects to Altair Inspire

An MCP server or skill can only do what Altair Inspire lets programs do. Altair Inspire exposes 2 automation interfaces:

• Inspire Python API (hwx.inspire) (Python): Inspire wraps its GUI framework and core functions (objects, boundary conditions, geometry and graphics) in a Python API, and ships its own Python distribution. Scripts can run in pure batch mode without a UI, as macros from the Python window, or at start-up, and can add ribbons, icons and dialogs. The inspire-mcp server uses the batch route, launching ExecWinEnvInsp.exe with a generated script for every call, so no state carries over between calls. Documentation
• OptiStruct export and .h3d results (Input files): Inspire's structural analyses export OptiStruct .fem decks and write .h3d result files. The MCP server can export a deck without running the solver and read min and max values from an existing .h3d, which lets an agent check a model or a result without opening the GUI.

What Siemens (formerly Altair) offers

Inspire came to Siemens with Altair and is listed with the Simcenter mechanical simulation products. Altair CoPilot, the AI help assistant in Altair desktop applications, answers from Altair's documentation and knowledge base and can suggest Python snippets in beta; it is not an MCP server, and no official Inspire MCP server has been announced.

Checked 4 Nov 2026. Sources: Altair CoPilot (HyperWorks help), Altair is now part of Siemens

What you can do with Altair Inspire and AI

• Check whether Inspire is installed and which release, without starting it.
• Open a .stmod model read-only and list parts with mass, volume, material and sheet thickness, plus load cases and contacts.
• Summarise displacement and von Mises stress per run from an OptiStruct .h3d result.
• Export an OptiStruct .fem deck for a chosen load case and element size to run elsewhere.
• Create a simple solid in a fresh headless session with the Python API and save it as a .stmod.
• Return a JSON-ready result from a custom script, such as the minimum bounding box of every part, for use in a spreadsheet or design review.

Taken from the listings' own documentation. Check each listing for exactly what it supports.

Installing

The listings here document setup for Claude Desktop, Codex and Cursor. Install steps, copied from each project's own documentation, are on each listing's page. Most Altair Inspire integrations run on your own computer next to Altair Inspire, so you need Altair Inspire installed and licensed on the same machine unless the listing says otherwise.