Tips & Tricks

Technical Highlight Videos (VIDEO)
On ESI’s IC.IDO Website, you can find a collection of short technical highlight videos, explaining selected features and workflows on various topics.
Frank Schoeffel Virtual Reality

CFD-VIEW Colormap Options: Static, Dynamic, and Cumulative
The Colormap Settings panel in CFD-VIEW assigns colors to data sets. Identical data values on an object are displayed with the same color if they are using the same colormap display. Three options offer the user the opportunity to select the mode for updating the colormap as the underlying data changes, for example during transient simulations. These options are: Static, Dynamic, and Cumulative
Santosh Kini 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

Best Practices for Video Rendering (USER)
In this Tips & Tricks document you will find the recommended settings and hints for rendering videos from IC.IDO.
Abderrazak Mejdi Virtual Reality

IDO.Present - Media Recording (VIDEO)
This tutorial will show you how to record your VDP / IC.IDO visualization screen. After you have studied this tutorial, you will be able to record your visualization screen and change the format or quality of the rendered video.
Abderrazak Mejdi Virtual Reality

Clipping Plane Parameters (USER)
The clipping plane functionality allows the user to increase the performance of his session. Some geometries can cause problems with the default clipping parameters. This article will explain some hints to avoid such problems.
Abderrazak Mejdi Virtual Reality

How to update the ProcessControl? (ADMINISTRATOR)
This document explains how to update the ProcessControl Software of your Virtual Reality Cluster.
Abderrazak Mejdi Virtual Reality

Grouping option for CFD-VIEW Data Import
Grouping feature in CFD-ACE+ GUI and CFD-VIEW comes in handy when working with complex industrial models. This feature allows putting BC patches or VC entities into a group that can be manipulated easily, to either set up properties or display specific post-processing attributes.
Abraham Meganathan CFD

CFD-VIEW Scripting is easier than ever with Journaling
In addition to the numerous options and tools available via the CFD-VIEW user interface, the scripting capability of CFD-VIEW allows you to perform complex data processing on your simulation results, and gives you the option to run the post-processing phase of your simulation in batch mode.
Abraham Meganathan CFD