Tag Archives: CAD

CAD Interoperability and CFD Meshing Survey

Posted on April 12, 2018 by

We hope you will spend just a few minutes on our 9-question survey about geometry models and CFD mesh generation. It is open to everyone in the CFD community and we will share the results here after the survey closes. 

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Top Posts of 2017 on Another Fine Mesh

Posted on February 2, 2018 by

It was Confucius who supposedly said “Study the past, if you would divine the future.” With that in mind, we looked back at 2017’s posts here on Another Fine Mesh to see which ones got the most views. With that … Continue reading →

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Project Geode, Geometry for Simulation, Now in Beta Test

Posted on December 28, 2017 by

Project Geode is our effort to share the core components of our geometry kernel with select partners and customers and evaluate whether it solves the oft-cited problem of geometry access from CFD and other simulation software.

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Why CAD Surface Geometry is Inexact

Posted on November 29, 2017 by

The fact that geometry models from a CAD system are inexact may surprise some people. But the explanation provided here by guest authors Benjamin Urick and Benjamin Marussig may be one of the most concise explanations of that fact I’ve … Continue reading →

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This Week in CFD

Posted on October 20, 2017 by

News Why do engineers hate their current CAD system? According to an Engineering.com survey featured in an Onshape blog post there are four main things to hate. #2 “It is too difficult to import/export files.” Interoperability rears its ugly head … Continue reading →

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This Week in CFD

Posted on December 23, 2016 by

*** Special Christmas Eve Eve Day Edition *** Software Intelligent Light announced the release of FieldView 16.1 for CFD results visualization and postprocessing and including the most resolved issues and feature requests in any recent FieldView release. See video below. … Continue reading →

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This Week in CFD

Posted on November 4, 2016 by

Software Siemens PLM Software announced the release of STAR-CCM+ v11.06 which includes a toolset for electronics cooling. [Still seems odd to not be writing “CD-adapco announced…”] Speaking of electronics cooling, Coolit v16 was recently released with CAD import and turbulence … Continue reading →

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