New Wrapping Technology Boosts Harpoon’s Automation and Accuracy

By DE Editors

CEI (Apex, NC) announces a major new feature for fixing poor CAD geometry, 64-bit support, and a Windows installer for Harpoon, the extreme mesher developed by Sharc Ltd. (Manchester, UK).

New wrapping technology developed by Sharc further improves Harpoon’s unique ability to deal with poor CAD geometry. In tandem with automated cleanup tools introduced in previous versions of Harpoon, the Wrapper feature quickly and easily takes care of large holes in models that cause problems when creating a mesh, says a press release.

“This feature is extremely useful in applications such as underhood thermal management,” says Richard Bardwell, Sharc’s president, “where geometry is extremely complex, containing many holes, intersecting and overlapping surfaces, and in some cases, actual physical parts that might be missing.”

Harpoon’s Wrapper envelops CAD geometry within a single closed surface that can then be used to generate the final surface and volume mesh. This ensures a watertight, hole-free surface mesh, removing intersecting and overlapping surfaces and enabling automatic de-featuring of parts not required for the analysis.

The latest version of Harpoon now supports the Windows 64-bit operating system, providing the flexibility to use 32-bit systems for simpler meshes and 64-bit for more refined meshesned meshes. A new installer for both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows fully automates the Harpoon installation process. The latest version of Harpoon with Wrapper, 64-bit support, and the automated Windows installer is free to existing users. For more information, visit ensight.com. For trial versions, visit sharc.co.uk.

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