DOE is not the only reason an analyst is tasked with extracting meaningful data from a large number of solution sets. What if you’ve run a grid-dependence study and need to figure out which regions of the domain were most affected? It can feel like looking for gold on a sandy beach, but doesn’t have to.

Chorus, a part of your Tecplot installation, is designed specifically for such scenarios. This hour-long video is well worth the time. Scatter plots, Surrogate Models, Deep-dives: three out of three ain’t bad.

That intriguing and seemingly circular reference is significant if you’re aiming to automate your meshing on the lines of the remarkable effort described in this video and this article.

It makes sense to name the entities in your Pointwise model in a meaningful way: use the entity’s functional purpose as the name for the entity. See this video to learn how easy – and powerful – this approach is.

Analysts, like the cat Macbeth cites, sometimes consider converting a polygonal model into a CAD model. What’s the effort involved? How long will it take? Will the resulting data be good “enough”?

Such conversion is sometimes possible, sometimes ill-advised – and is sometimes almost as bad as assassinating the model. Read this article for a good discussion on the various pros and cons.