Published: September 01, 2010
Blue Ridge Numerics Announces the Release of CFdesign 2011 Allowing Engineering Teams to Get More Done in 24-Hours Than Other Physical and Digital Methods
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Blue
Ridge Numerics, Inc., the leader in upfront CFD software, today
announced the release of CFdesign 2011, and the availability for current
CFdesign customers to download it from the Customer Portal. New
functionality and major enhancements in CFdesign 2011 equip engineering
teams with the power to get more done in 24-hours than with other
methods. The highly-automated fluid flow and thermal management decision
making processes in CFdesign 2011 provides an effective alternative to
costly and time consuming physical testing methods that often lack a
complete picture of design performance. CFdesign 2011 provides a
platform for engineering companies to gain a competitive advantage and
sustain critical growth by better utilizing existing personnel and
network resources.
The new CFdesign 2011 collaboration tools effectively connect local and
global teams. The knowledge sharing features allow team members ranging
from the novice to the power user to have flow and thermal management
tools available on-demand, and flexible enough to suit their individual
needs.
Using CFdesign 2011, engineering teams will have design performance
feedback faster which provides a more direct path to product innovation.
This allows for do-it-right-the-first-time designs from concept to
validation. CFdesign 2011 delivers more of what engineers need in less
time than the physical, or digital, alternatives.
"CFdesign 2011 combines our commitment of bringing best-in-class CFD
software to the design engineer that include the tools they need to be
successful, with a feature-rich software platform that will also help
make the company as a whole successful," explains Derrek Cooper,
CFdesign Product Manager, Blue Ridge Numerics. "We have incorporated
features, such as automated mesh sizing with instant preview, a suite of
design study automation tools, a model-centric workflow, and Web-based
collaboration that will help engineers get more done in 24-hours than
ever before. CFdesign 2011 helps design engineers compress the design
process while expanding their reach. Engineers no longer have to wish
they had more time to run additional simulations leading to innovative
products with improved quality -- they do."
CFdesign 2011 Key Features:
One-Click Simulation
- New tools added to CFdesign 2011 simplify and expand the use of
simulation to every CAD engineer on the team using CAD-entity groups and
Design Study Rules to provide a convenient way to have a simulation
setup in one-click and begin exploring flow and thermal design options.
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CAD-entity groups- Collections of named parts or surfaces that
are created in the CAD system utilizing tools on the new CFdesign
toolbar. They provide a convenient way to automate the assignment of
settings and the building of the design study.
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Design Study Rules- Associations between a CAD part name, CAD
material name or CAD entity group, and a CFdesign setting. Use them to
automatically assign settings to frequently recurring CAD components,
providing the ability for one-click simulation.
Design Study Automation
- With several new features like a CAD-embedded Design Study Builder
and design study templates, engineers can now avoid the dejà vu
experience of repeating the same process over and over when setting up a
multi-scenario design study from within Inventor, Pro/ENGINEER, and
SolidWorks.
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Design Study Builder- A powerful automation tool that allows
for variation of multiple parameters such as materials, flow and
thermal conditions as well as design variations driven directly from
your design tables inside your CAD system.
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Design Study Templates - By capturing standard processes,
templates give design groups the ability to define standard processes
and reduce the need to "start-over" every time.
Remote Solving & Mobile Alerts
- CFdesign 2011 is built to support the multi-scenario design study
process by making it easy to harness all the computational horse power
available on your existing network. A new remote solving manager will
help you setup and allocate the workload across multiple workstations
and alert you via a text message and email when a simulation has started
and finished as well as providing solution progress along the way.
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Remote solving- An important part of the CFdesign Automation
Suite that provides the freedom to schedule and run multiple scenarios
from a single source, gaining access to all solving engines on your
network.
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Mobile Alerts- Notifications can be sent via email or text
messages keeping you informed on the progress of your design study.
Team Environment
- New workflow and collaboration functionality equate to getting
more of the team involved on every project. CFdesign's powerful 3D
viewer now even works inside your Web browser meaning everyone can
evaluate simulation results even when they don't have a CFdesign license
or are not a CFdesign user.
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Model-centric Workflow- The heart of the CFdesign workflow that
allows maximizing screen real estate as well as access to all
functions directly on the model. This provides fewer workflow
interruptions and improved usability for the entire team.
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Material Library Management- There are twice as many materials
now available in the material library. New materials such as standard
internal fans, customer requested fluids and solids as well as a brand
new LED material type have been added. Materials can now be searched,
filtered and tagged as favorites. Material databases can also be
shared with other team members.
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Next Generation Automatic Mesh Sizing- An extension of the
existing powerful automatic mesh sizing, these refinement options
improves the mesh automatically in critical areas, such as gaps while
providing an instant preview of the surface mesh.
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Web-based Collaboration- The Customer Portal has been expanded
to allow the secure sharing and viewing of results data across the
design team as well as those outside the organization with
authorization.
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3D Viewer in a web browser- The powerful CFdesign 3D Results
Viewer has been developed to work inside of a standard web browser as
an add-on. This reduces the need for members of the team to have to
download and install the 3D Viewer locally as an application which
opens the ability for more collaboration and knowledge sharing of the
simulation results.
Decision Center - With
CFdesign 2011 extracting the data you need to drive design performance
just got better. New thermal image camera-like visualization and
performance data output options add more muscle to this already robust
tool.
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Results Interpretation & Visualization- Identifying the
optimal design just got easier. Filtering and sorting through the
mountains of data and presenting them in a very simple way is the
heart of the Design Study Environment. Numerous improvements were made
to the visualization suite of tools including thermal imaging results
view, fan & contact thermal model operating points in the decision
center.
An online CFdesign 2011 resource center with informative videos and a
demonstration request form is available at: www.cfdesign.com/2011
About CFdesign
Using CFdesign, engineers are able to make insightful design decisions
based on fluid flow and heat transfer simulations while continuing to
work in their CAD environment. The simulations begin from within the CAD
system using the design study manager, and the native model along with
its associative information is opened within the CFdesign design study
environment. The unique multi-scenario design study environment in
CFdesign 2011 allows engineers to view multiple designs at one time and
visually compare the different results. CFdesign enables engineers to
obtain accurate simulation results early in the development process
where the value of true upfront computational fluid dynamic (CFD)
software is greatest.
About Blue Ridge Numerics
Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc. is the fastest-growing CFD software company in
the world and consistently ranked among the fastest-growing technology
companies in North America. The company's CFdesign upfront CFD software
integrates comprehensive fluid-flow and heat-transfer simulation into
early phases of design and engineering, when companies can dramatically
improve product quality, time-to-market, and ultimately profitability
through the product life cycle. Learn more at www.cfdesign.com.
Connect with design engineering colleagues at: www.upfrontcfd.com.
CFdesign is a registered trademark of Blue Ridge Numerics. Other
product or brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
Blue Ridge Numerics
Paul Whalen, 1-434-977-2764 ext.152
paul.whalen@cfdesign.com
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