Tips & Tricks

Auto Empty Folders option in CFD-GEOM
When importing large models into CFD-GEOM, you may notice that certain entities listed in the Model Manager may have a red box around them.
Abraham Meganathan CFD

Adding Baffles to an Unstructured domain in CFD-GEOM
While meshing the geometries of industrial significance like mixing tanks, reactor and heat exchangers, we may encounter baffles which have negligible thickness but significant area to impact the physics of the problem in terms of momentum and heat transfer. These surfaces may be free-standing or connected to other surfaces from the domain.
Abraham Meganathan CFD

Managing Multiple STAGE with Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)
This tip provides some information on the usage of multi stage runs in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)
Jean-Christophe Allain Virtual Performance

Using Inertial Relief
This tip provides some background information on how to model static cases without considering the effect of boundary conditions in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS)
Jean-Christophe Allain Virtual Performance

Preloading BOLTS
This tip provides methodology to pre stress elements in Virtual Performance Solution (VPS) to model Bolt assemblies.
Jean-Christophe Allain Virtual Performance

Using Region sources in CFD-VisCART
In order to control grid spacing at user-defined locations, mesh sources are a common tool in CFD-VisCART (Figure 1). Point, Line, Curve, Plane, Box and Surface sources have been available for several years. Cylinder and Sphere sources were introduced a few years back. To extend this tool set further, CFD-VisCART V2013.0 introduced Region sources.
Abraham Meganathan CFD

New Mesh Sources in CFD-GEOM for Triangle and Tetrahedral meshing
Corner Point Sources, Surface Interior Sources and Tet Sources have been available in CFD-GEOM for several years, allowing for refinements during certain phases of mesh generation.
Abraham Meganathan CFD

Importing an arbitrary STL surface for post-processing in CFD VIEW
When using the Arbitrary-Cut operator, you have the option to directly import an external surface in STL format into the model. This option, which was first made available in V2013.4, underwent significant performance improvements in V2014.0. This option provides the ability to plot data and process information on any arbitrarily shaped surface. The import process involves reading the STL file and computing the intersections between this surface and the model’s volume cells. Results on the imported surface are interpolated from the intersected volume cells and are independent of the surface mesh size of the STL as long as the surface is properly represented.
Abraham Meganathan CFD

IDO.Cooperate via a Gateway PC (USER)
In this Tips & Tricks document you will find a step to step description how to set up a Client as a Gateway PC for a IDO.Cooperate Session.
Frank Schoeffel Virtual Reality

How to do Export of SolidWorks Objects to PAM-STAMP?
Guidelines to export objects done in SolidWorks and retrieve then maximum information when importing in PAM-STAMP.
Harald Porzner Sheet Metal Forming