Sundar

Let me try to answer your question but it reminds me a little of a joke: a tourist stops a local in a quiet Irish town and asks "How do I get to Cork from here?" and the local replies, "Well, you don't want to start from here."

I think your question is how can I integrate Pro-E and CFD teams, what you have asked is how good is SolidWorks. Let me adress these in reverse order.

The integration in SolidWorks is exactly that, it is integrated, there is no need to tidy up CAD models etc, as long as you have a solid model then you do not need to tidy it up.

The mesh is not fully tetrahedral, the mesh incorporates a near surface prismatic layer to aid in boundary layer capture. If you want to go beyond the tight STAR-Works environment you can use the other tools in the STAR-CD suite to create any mesh type, hexahedral, tetrahedral, trimmed cell etc.

Regarding PRO-E, SolidWorks can read in some pro-e files in native format (but the new format is encoded so this does not yet work), and also supports both STEP and IGES formats. We also have a new product called ProSurf that can directly read PRO-E files and then the other tools in the suite can work on this dataset. To me, if I were modelling in PRO-E I would not want to get a completed model and then for the next step spend time moving the model to another CAD package, I would want to take my PRO-E model and work on it as it stands.

If you would like to, feel free to email or ftp me some sample data sets (iges, vdafs, step, .sat etc) and I will see how the tool behaves.

So a little summary, STAR-Works should be able to do the job but there may be better ways available to you from the CD adapco group.

Regards

Philip

• STAR-Works - Mainstream CAD with CFD - CD adapco Group Marketing, Wed, 13 Feb 2002, 6:22 p.m.
  • Re: STAR-Works - Mainstream CAD with CFD - Sundar Jayaraman, Thu, 14 Feb 2002, 9:02 p.m.
    • Re: STAR-Works - Mainstream CAD with CFD - Philip Jones, Fri, 15 Feb 2002, 11:21 a.m.