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Altair SIMSOLID Walkthrough
For this overview, Tony Abbey says he was was able to explore design configurations very rapidly—and this prompted further exploration into alternative configurations such as an integral fitting.
Trust the mesh generated by the software, or take a proactive approach?
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Aerodynamic Optimization of Exhaust for Car Compressors
Pollution and fuel consumption are the most important features of thermal engines that must be drastically improved in the coming years.

Ansys Launches HFSS Mesh Fusion
January 21, 2021
Ansys’ new technology helps engineers improve product design for advanced applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to 5G communications.

Democratizing Simulation: Job Well Done or Unfinished Task?
December 15, 2020
Designer-friendly tools are on the rise, but some make the establishment uneasy.
Coreform Rebrands Trelis Meshing Software
November 16, 2020
The new release of Coreform Cubit introduces beta functionality to support isogeometric analysis (IGA).

ENGYS Releases HELYX 3.3.0
November 10, 2020
Open-source CFD for Enterprise includes all HELYX Add-ons (Adjoint, Coupled, Marine and Hydro).

Editor’s Pick: Automated surface mesh generation in leading CFD software
November 4, 2020
Pre-processing software features a new utility for automated surface meshing.
Editor’s Picks: Oct. 15-21, 2020
October 22, 2020
One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Debuts Intelligent Automatic Surface Meshing
October 16, 2020
Pointwise’s new Automatic Surface Meshing capability takes as input a geometry model and a handful of user-defined goals for the mesh and automatically generates a geometry resolving, hybrid unstructured mesh with anisotropy.
Editor’s Picks: July 2-8, 2020
July 8, 2020
One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Accelerates Surface Meshing
July 2, 2020
New release provides 5X faster surface meshing for CFD.

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Honda Demonstrates a Major Breakthrough in CAD Preparation and Meshing Speed
March 31, 2020
Honda streamlines CFD simulation utilizing NUMECA AutoSeal technology.

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Editor’s Pick: Next-Gen Parallel Meshing Speeds CFD Prep 30x
March 4, 2020
Siemens Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 2020.1 said to be “rewritten from the ground up for parallel performance.”
nPower Software Partners with Thor3D
January 24, 2020
Partnership opens opportunity for companies to bundle the Cyborg3D MeshToCAD software with the Thor3D hand scanner.
Coreform Acquires csimsoft
October 24, 2019
High-end meshing technology to enable spline-based simulation.
Editor’s Picks: Sept. 19-25, 2019
September 27, 2019
One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.
Pointwise Mesh Generation Software Updated
September 19, 2019
Software includes the ability to use regular hexahedra instead of unstructured tetrahedra in regions away from the geometry model.
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