Precise digital prototyping platform for fluid flow and heat transfer simulations
 CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 provides a fully integrated and certified digital prototyping solution for solving CAD-driven fluid flow and heat transfer challenges within the Inventor environment. |
Charlottesville, Va. – Blue Ridge Numerics announces the availability of CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010, which provides a fully integrated and certified digital prototyping solution for solving CAD-driven fluid flow and heat transfer challenges within the Inventor environment.
With new capabilities in Inventor 2010, previous obstacles to simulation have been reduced, enabling design engineers to easily and quickly create precise flow and thermal simulations to optimize product design.
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According to Blue Ridge, mechanical and electronic engineers with all levels of experience will benefit from new features in Inventor 2010 that help bring focus to the defined component or element of importance to be evaluated in CFdesign, allowing for faster meshing, analysis, and more accurate flow and thermal simulation results.
The CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 empowers engineers who want to find answers to their fluid flow and heat transfer questions early in the design process, but don’t have time to work through the inherent barriers found in traditional CFD tools.
CFdesign provides an extremely valuable flow and thermal digital prototyping platform for companies planning to use Inventor 2010 to design machinery, electronics enclosures, pumps, valves, and any kind of flow control device.
“CFdesign from Blue Ridge Numerics brings full spectrum fluid flow and heat transfer simulation to Autodesk Inventor 2010,” says Andrew Anagnost, vice president of engineering & simulation products, MFG Industry Group, Autodesk.
“Our partnership with the Blue Ridge Numerics team is an important part of our strategy to bring digital prototyping to manufacturers of all sizes.”
View a demonstration of CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010
New Features Enhance CFdesign Experience
Simulation tools continue to evolve and single-click capabilities in Inventor 2010, such as shrinkwrap, create substitute, and multi-body parts, make the process of incorporating simulation with 3D modeling even easier.
With these new capabilities in Inventor, previous barriers to simulation have been minimized, so more engineers will be able to leverage the benefits of CFdesign in their product development process.
- Shrinkwrap – Shrinkwrap enables an engineer to quickly simplify a production-level model by suppressing detail without requiring the user to edit the production geometry. This simplifies simulation set-up and produces simulation results much faster.
- Create Substitute – This new feature combines an assembly into a single component, so an engineer working on a valve or electronic assembly for example, no longer needs to be concerned with the many parts that make up the assembly. Instead focus can be brought to the element of interest to, for example, simulate and analyze the airflow through the assembly. This capability allows users to focus on the optimization of the product in a much faster, reliable way.
- Multi-Body Parts - The multi-body parts feature allows for quick creation of models that can be divided up into parts for segmented meshing automatically or manually. This allows users to analyze a model from multiple perspectives much more efficiently than ever before, providing more accurate answers with a finer mesh in the parts that a user is most interested in.
“Autodesk Inventor 2010 significantly reduces barriers for CAD engineers to leverage the benefits that simulation tools, such as CFdesign bring to the digital prototyping process,” says Derrek Cooper, product manager, Blue Ridge Numerics.
“New and improved capabilities in Inventor 2010 now enable any engineer, not just CAD power users, to more easily and quickly move from 3D CAD to simulation, making it easier and faster to conduct extensive design studies of fluid flow and thermal scenarios, resulting in a more optimized final product design upfront in the development process.”