“Pretty worthless, right?” is just the question to grab your attention when it comes to critiquing and selecting from the various options available for communicating data visually. It’s all OK to say a picture’s worth a thousand words, but what if you’re stuck choosing between thousands of options? Read this article for some basics on contour plots, XY-line plots and the appropriate zoom level.

Delaunay insertion and Advancing Front methods have been the mainstays of grid generation for a while now. Given the advantages of anisotropic cells for CFD, exemplified by Pointwise’s TRex, there’s another option that works particularly well for surface grids: right-angles triangles instead of equilateral triangles leads to better combination into quads. Take a look at this 3 minute video for more on how this can be just what you need. Don’t forget to read the manual!

Regardless of the reasons you may need to translate a CAD file from one format to another, the challenge of learning how to use the translation-software is always an added overhead. What if you could drop your source files in a folder and have the targets created automatically? This article explains how you can set up TransMagic Command to do just that.