FORT WORTH, TX (19 July 2011)—Pointwise users will be able to vote for the topic for a special training short course offered during the user group meeting here 8-9 November. The application-based course will be in addition to the much anticipated Pointwise Version 17 training.

Users may vote for design optimization, Glyph scripting, T-Rex (anisotropic tetrahedral extrusion) or large-scale problems or they may suggest a topic of their own. Voting will close 31 August.

To cast a vote, go to www.pointwise.com/shortcourse.

The Pointwise User Group Meeting will be at the Embassy Suites – Downtown in Fort Worth.>p More information about the Pointwise UGM is available at www.pointwise.com/ugm.

Pointwise, Inc. is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today – mesh generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The company’s Gridgen and Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers, such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS CFX and OpenFOAM as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows (Intel and AMD), Linux (Intel and AMD), Mac and Unix, and has scripting languages that can automate CFD meshing. Large manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide rely on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution.

More information about Gridgen and Pointwise is available at www.pointwise.com.

Pointwise and Gridgen are registered trademarks and Pointwise Glyph, Gridgen Glyph and T-Rex are trademarks of Pointwise, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owner.

# For more information: Jan Batts 817-377-2807 news@pointwise.com