Simcenter™ Compose™ Extension
Currently, the Simcenter Compose extension is only compatible with
- Microsoft Windows,
- Linux,
- Rapidminer® AI Studio software 2024.0+, and
- Simcenter Compose 2024.0+
The extension will not work together with Rapidminer® AI Hub software, nor with other operating systems.
Simcenter Compose is an environment for doing math calculations, manipulating and visualizing data, programming, and debugging scripts useful for repeated computations and process automation. Simcenter 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.
The Simcenter Compose extension for Rapidminer AI Studio provides the following 7 operators, with which you can seamlessly execute Compose OML from within a Rapidminer AI Studio process.
Execute Compose
CAE Readers
- Get Metadata
- Get Requests
- Get Components
- Get Timesteps
- Read CAE
- Read CAE with Parameters
You can find the extension on the RapidMiner Marketplace.
Prerequisites:
To use the Simcenter Compose extension, you need the following:
Windows or Linux
Rapidminer AI Studio 2024+
Simcenter Compose 2024+, installed and licensed.
Download Simcenter Compose from the Altair One Marketplace
Custom Operators extension >= 1.2.1
For installation instructions, see Adding Extensions.
Simcenter Compose installation path
To configure the extension, take the following steps:
Set the Simcenter Compose installation path in Preferences, under Settings > Preferences > Simcenter Compose

Click the Test button to check if the connection is made successfully.

Notes on Units
The Simcenter Compose extension runs Simcenter Compose in batch mode. Units are checked out when a process is executed, then released when execution is completed.
If you are using Rapidminer AI Studio together with a Units license, you should be able to use the same license configuration.
Read more:
For more documentation, see Simcenter Compose Help
Via the Siemens Xcelerator Academy, you can learn how to use Simcenter Compose.