Chorus makes it remarkably easy to build surrogate models from your DOE or other sources of data. But what if you want to go beyond the modeling techniques built into Chorus? PyTecplot is your friend: put it togeher with a toolbox like SMT and watch your data come alive. And for a useful review of various modeling techniques, check the series of posts that starts here.

A voxel, according to the internet’s fount of knowledge, represents a value on a regular grid in three-dimensional space. In Pointwise, a regular (or Cartesian) grid itself is referred to as a Voxel-grid. Sometimes referred to as “Hex-Core”, unstructured hexahedra have been available in Pointwise for a while now. See this video for a quick overview if you haven’t started using them yet.

Sensory perception, this article points out, is a figment of your imagination. Remember that the next time you review appealing B-Rep rendering in your CAD application. This excellent writeup is a good place to start understanding why model-tolerances are such a critical aspect of CAD – and are yet brushed under the carpet in most CAD User-Interfaces.