HVE Studio — Engineering Dynamics Company

HVE Studio is the next major version of HVE, the physics-based simulation environment from Engineering Dynamics Company for reconstructing and simulating vehicle crashes and occupant motion. It runs the same EDC engines classic HVE runs, from the same physics source, in a new 3-D interface.

It installs beside classic HVE rather than over it, so you can run both while you move your work across.

What’s coming in HVE Studio

HVE Studio is coming soon. We plan to release it before the 2027 HVE Forum, which will be the first training on HVE Studio. Here’s a look at what’s new.

**Night lighting**Each vehicle lights the road with its own headlamps and tail lamps.

**Photorealistic images**Real sunlight, shadows and reflections, rendered straight from your case.

**Real sites**Search an address and pull in USGS aerial imagery and 3-D terrain.

**Point clouds**Bring laser scans of the scene in: streets, buildings and terrain.

**Walking pedestrians**A pedestrian walks with a measured gait right up to the impact.

**Occupant motion**Belted occupants ride through the crash and meet the vehicle's interior.

**Motorcycle impacts**Motorcycle dynamics and impacts, with a separate rider.

**See the forces**Tire and impact forces, drawn right on the vehicles.

**Crush heat map**See at a glance where each vehicle was crushed, and how deeply.

Get HVE Studio updates

Sign up to hear about HVE Studio as it’s ready. HVE users with a current support policy: tick the box, and we’ll invite you when the beta opens.

We use your address only for HVE Studio news, and every email has a link to leave the list.

Capabilities

SIMON 3-D vehicle simulation, with DyMESH collision and the TMeasy combined-slip tire model
Occupants in SIMON that ride through the crash and meet the vehicle's interior
GATB occupant and pedestrian simulation, with walking pedestrians
Motorcycles: nonlinear single-track dynamics and impacts, with a separate rider
EDCRASH damage-based reconstruction; EDSMAC and EDSMAC4 collision simulation
EDSVS, EDVSM, EDVTS, EDVDS and EDGEN vehicle and articulated-vehicle models
Real sites: search an address and pull in USGS aerial imagery and 3-D terrain
Survey point clouds (LAS, LAZ, PLY, E57 and Gaussian splats), and drivable surfaces built from a scan
Photorealistic images: sun shadows, night lighting with vehicle lamps, real skies and node-based materials
Animated cameras, a crush heat map, and tire and impact forces and vehicle paths in the 3-D view
EDR positioning, Monte Carlo analysis, Quick Case and a VIN-based Vehicle Package
Opens classic HVE cases (File → Import)
Graphs, report pages and timestep tables from every run
Animation recording up to 1000 fps, including slow motion; glTF export and a live link to Blender

Licensing

HVE is licensed per computer. Activate it once from Help → License with your EDC Software key; it refreshes itself online, and keeps working for 60 days without an internet connection. A computer that never connects can be activated with a license file from the offline page.

Each engine is licensed separately, and so is the EDC vehicle database. Your license says which you have, and HVE tells you plainly when something is not included. Opening, viewing and printing cases is never licensed, so your work stays readable.

Activate a computer without internet, or release one you no longer have →

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
macOS 11 Big Sur or later, on an Apple Silicon or Intel Mac
64-bit Linux with glibc 2.38 or later (Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 13, Fedora 39 or newer), with SDL2 and OpenGL libraries installed (for example: sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0)
A graphics card and driver with OpenGL 3.3: any Intel HD Graphics from about 2012 on, or any AMD or NVIDIA card from the last decade. Remote Desktop and some virtual machines do not provide it
Any 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, or Apple Silicon; more cores make DyMESH collisions faster
8 GB of memory at least; 16 GB recommended for large point clouds, detailed vehicle meshes or multi-event cases
An internet connection to activate, and at least once every 60 days (or the offline page)

For testers

HVE Studio isn’t released yet. These test builds are for invited testers only. Everyone else: see what’s coming above, and sign up for updates to hear when it’s released.

Version 1.0.0-alpha.5 · released 2026-11-02 · SHA256SUMS.txt

Test build. This version is for testing and is not yet a supported release, and only testers' keys can download it. Windows asks before running it the first time: choose More info, then Run anyway. On a Mac, open the disk image, drag HVE Studio to Applications, then the first time right-click it and choose Open. Please report anything that goes wrong to Engineering Dynamics Company.

Windows

64-bit installer · 48 MB

SHA-256 73d7e1141af0007bc15d079bd6a3b9f8530e09fcd009adbc89005474198fc405

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Linux

64-bit .tar.gz · 55 MB

SHA-256 007aa9f8ea933058c807ad0e8ffd794b3785ce64bca4bed3609af44abbbf6d00

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macOS

disk image

Not available yet

Only a tester's EDC Software key can download a test build. Lost it? Have it emailed to you.

In this test build

HVE Studio 1.0.0-alpha.5, built from 70fee8fdd9e8 on 2026-11-02.

UNSIGNED test build: Windows SmartScreen warns before it runs (More info, then Run anyway).

No macOS package in this release: the Mac build (failure) did not finish. Windows and Linux are complete.

Full test suite: passed on this commit (Gate: full).

Questions

Does it replace classic HVE?

Not yet. HVE Studio installs in its own folder, uses its own .hvex case format, and never takes over the .hve file type, so classic HVE keeps working beside it. Open a classic case in HVE Studio with File → Import.

How do I get a key?

Existing customers already have an EDC Software key. If you do not, or have lost yours, use the recovery link under Download, or contact Engineering Dynamics Company.

Where is the EDC vehicle database?

It is a licensed product, so it is not in the installer. Customers licensed for it receive it separately.

Can I check the download?

Yes. Every release lists the SHA-256 of each of its files, beside the downloads.

Support

HVE is developed and supported by Engineering Dynamics Company. Visit edccorp.com or contact EDC support for licensing, training and assistance.