Dealing with divide-by-zeros within the Analyze-functions, time-step specific zone-display, large reductions in temporary disk storage, and improved data loaders are only some of the features in Tecplot’s latest release.
Read the details here and use your my.tecplot account to upgrade your installation.
Flashpoint Automatic Surface Meshing, the marquee feature in Pointwise’s last release, now gets a step up with Flashpoint Volume Meshing.
But there’s more in this new release: WCN smoothing, surface tangency, thin-surface-interpolation grids … read the release notes and get started rightaway as V18.5 will run with your current Pointwise V18.4 license.
Widely presented as the answer to the many problems CAE analysts face with “dirty” CAD, this video is a reminder that shrink-wrapping NURBS surfaces is a procedure that involves some approximation. It’s up to the analyst to decide what level of accuracy to the CAD model is called for, of course, so this can be a useful method – provided you remember the fine print!
