Blue Ridge Numerics Introduces CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010

By DE Editors

Blue Ridge Numerics’ 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. 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. Mechanical and electronics engineers 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, according to the company.

CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 provides a 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, Inc. “Our partnership with the Blue Ridge Numerics team is an important part of our strategy to bring digital prototyping to manufacturers of all sizes.”

Blue Ridge Numerics has created a brief video highlighting a few of the new capabilities in Inventor 2010 that will benefit engineers using CFdesign V10. View the three-minute demo.

With Inventor’s new capabilities, previous barriers to simulation have been minimized:

• 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 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.
• 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 more efficiently.
 

CFdesign V10 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 is available immediately.

For more information, visit CFdesign.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.