Engineer vs. Designer

If you prefer your CAD and CAE news more on the zany side, check out the bi-weekly Engineer vs. Designer podcast.  Your hosts will be Adam O’Hern from cadjunkie.com and Josh Mings from SolidSmack.com.  With each episode they bring news, tips, and a special guest.

• Engineer Vs Designer at evd1.tv
• cadjunkie
• SolidSmack.com

Autodesk’s Project Vasari

Project Vasari from Autodesk Labs is a design tool for buildings that includes analysis capability such as CFD of the airflow around building exteriors.   (Giorgio Vasari was an Italian architect, 1511-1574.)  The CFD capabilities are known as the Ecotect Wind Tunnel and employs what Autodesk calls “simplified computational fluid dynamics.”

• Autodesk Labs’ Project Vasari
• Ecotect Wind Tunnel
• Autodesk blog post with images
• Details about the CFD including video from buildz blog

Five Ways SpaceClaim Boosts CFD Productivity

SpaceClaim provides a video in which they offer five ways in which their software will boost your CFD productivity.  Quoting (almost verbatim) from the video:

1. Fast, simple and intuitive modeling tools let you create 3D models with unmatched speed and accuracy.
2. Working with other CAD systems and 3D neutral files is a breeze.
3. SpaceClaim gives you the ability to easily defeature and simplify your model.
4. Creating a fluid volume around the geometry for external fluid studies is fast and easy.
5. SpaceClaim automatically creates internal fluid volumes for you after you select the inlets and outlets.

• SpaceClaim’s video

Other News

• Israeli CFD Center partners with ScaleMP to provide CFD simulations on HPC
• 11-17 September 2011 is National Aerospace Week in the U.S.
• Speakers announced for Pointwise User Group Meeting
• Paul Stallings of Kubotek writes about CAD interoperability on Evan Yares’ blog: a cylinder is a cone and a sphere is a torus.  (Comment: I think Paul has pretty nicely touched on everything wrong with CAD interoperability.)
• Wirth Research is applying CFD in its partnership with Honda Performance Development.
• There’s still time to enter Pointwise’s Meshy Award contest.