Projection area

July 14, 2006, 03:17

Is it possible to determine the projection area of an object in cfx post? Say for instance you what to determine the cw value of a car you need the projection area of the car. I have only succeeded in creating a plane at an arbitrary coordiante and calculate the fluid area, subtracted from the total area.

July 14, 2006, 14:29

There was an undocumented command in 5.7.1 that did this (>dumpviewer file.txt), which would report the projected area of the visible surfaces at the command prompt. It doesn't appear to work in 10.0, however. Maybe it will get fixed for 11.0.

-Robin

July 14, 2006, 03:17	Projection area	#1
Michael B Guest Posts: n/a	Is it possible to determine the projection area of an object in cfx post? Say for instance you what to determine the cw value of a car you need the projection area of the car. I have only succeeded in creating a plane at an arbitrary coordiante and calculate the fluid area, subtracted from the total area.

July 14, 2006, 14:29	Re: Projection area	#2
Robin Guest Posts: n/a	There was an undocumented command in 5.7.1 that did this (>dumpviewer file.txt), which would report the projected area of the visible surfaces at the command prompt. It doesn't appear to work in 10.0, however. Maybe it will get fixed for 11.0. -Robin

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