Pointwise offers a greater variety of options for unstructured meshes in comparison to other meshing tools which I had previously used. Pointwise offers many tutorials available online, on both Structured and Unstructured meshes, which makes one’s learning easier. The Pointwise team is active and efficient in considering and further finding an apt solution for their client’s problems.

Implementing boundary conditions while generating a mesh in Pointwise is really easy and more user friendly as compared to ICEM CFD. The people at Pointwise offer great support to any technical and non-technical needs of the grid generator. Training sessions, Skype sessions, specific problem-oriented sessions are often held by Pointwise. On-site product training is also available where the number of users is large. Overall the product support is laudable.

Pointwise support team is really helpful. The interface is user friendly. For 2D grids, Pointwise has made my life very easy. It takes less than 5 min to generate 2D grids for geometries like Airfoil, Cylinder etc.

Using Pointwise software was a good experience. I used this software for meshing the 2D model of Orion CEV re-entry vehicle. The extrusion method was used for meshing. The best thing about the software was it was compatible with the software I used for numerical simulations (SU2). We can directly save the mesh in the SU2 format. Its easy to give boundary conditions also in this software.

With Pointwise one can generate a large number of meshes in a small amount of time, thereby increasing the efficiency towards the solver and generating other geometries rather than meshing the same thing again and again. I thank KFour Metrics for organizing the "Lets Talk Meshing workshop" in Bengaluru which helped me a lot.

Pointwise uses a completely different approach for mesh generation as compared to other packages which is more topology based, which makes it easy to use. It has various advantages including easily accessible GUI, various meshing techniques (like elliptic PDE, T-Rex and hyperbolic PDE based extrusion), it supports both analytic and faceted CAD formats and provides easy built in interface with a lot of flow solvers (more than 60). Pointwise also allows scripting to couple with one's in house code which is an attractive feature.