Inspire 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Inspire

4.6

(5)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Inspire

Designed for businesses in aerospace, engineering, electronics and other industries, Inspire is a 3D CAD solution that helps accelerate product development via simulation-driven designs. It allows users to create, optimize and study structurally efficient parts and assemblies through collaboration. The platform offers a centralized interface that enables geometry creation and modification of product designs. It also provides dynamic motion simulation, topology optimization, and structural analysis, empowering designers and simulation analysts to perform faster what-if studies and reduce time to market. Additionally, Inspire also provides customer support via knowledge base, FAQs and more.

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Inspire Features

Popular features found in Engineering CAD
2D Drawing
3D Imaging
Collaboration Tools
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
Design Analysis
Design Management
Document Management
Presentation Tools
Version Control
More features of Inspire
Animation
CAD Tools
Data Capture and Transfer
Direct Manipulation
For 3D Printing
Graphical Data Presentation
Image Editing
Manufacturing Design Data
Mathematical Modeling
Modeling & Simulation
Project Management
Real-Time Updates

Inspire Integrations

Adobe Illustrator

Inspire User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

60%

40%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.2

Have you used Inspire and would like to share your experience with others?

Jorge L.

Verified reviewer

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

It is an efficient software, and has a new tool such as the generation of forms of morphogenesis.

Using it within my organization has helped me to compare this software with others and thus make the most of it as well as making the classes dynamic and with demonstrations of operation when performing the simulations.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The efficiency when designing and how fast this product generates the mechanical parts. It has important new features of solidThinking Inspire 2014 include geometry simplification tools, linear static analysis, concentrated dough pieces and smoothing options, as well as the ability to export solid geometry. this allows design engineers, product designers and architects to create and research structurally efficient concepts quickly and easily, reducing cost, development time, material consumption and product weight.

Cons:

The little diffusion to the Latin countries that makes it little known, besides the cost which is high for the conditions of these countries, should be promoted with a series of plans accessible to the end user, it is important to emphasize that due to being a high software level requires a high capacity ram memory inside the pc, you should also be considered the option of generating modules that require less memory for its operation.

Sascha P.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Mit selbsterklärender GUI und vielen Funktionen einfach das Thema Simulation angehen.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Die Einfachheit der Bedienung und selbsterklärende GUI, sowie die vielen Möglichkeiten zur Simulation.

Cons:

Die Einfachheit schließt auch gewisse Funktionen und Details aus. Es hat eben alles sein Für und Wider.

Nathan W.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2024

Design Engineer Using Inspire

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Inspire tends to be a great option for quick checks on design. The mesh seems fast and flexible... much better than most. It handles odd conditions like edge contact well.

Cons:

The plug in doesn't particularily work well embedded into CAD programs. It is a little tedious to always have to export models from CAD, import into Inspire, and then try to transfer the results back into CAD.

Reasons for switching to Inspire

Company mandated switch required me to move to an "agnostic" of CAD Simulation program.

Verified

Reviewer

Used other for unspecified

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Definitely the future of simulation

This software is one i implemented during my part time lectures in a local university. The students loved it

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

One can create 3 dimensional images from 2 dimensional images as references, and with a wide variety of online video tutorials and literature, this is possible even for newbies.

Cons:

The software is quite heavy on computers, and can slow down processes to the point of hanging, i suggest an increase in RAM.

Mert S.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Easy to optimize

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really like the user friendly interface, I used to optimize stamping products. Its so easy and lot of source to learn the program. While it might be harder to give constraints on another programs, it's so easy and compact.

Cons:

Can't have a detailed mesh in comparison with other topology optimization Programs.

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