Now showing: 1 … 2… 3… or maybe even 6 designs?

Why stick with just one when you can explore two … or three … or six different designs? Now, engineers – whether designing a VME, VPX, or other form factor system – can use CFdesign 2010, an upgraded version of Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc.’s design study environment, to do just that. Enabling efficient exploration of 1, 2, 3, or even 6 simultaneous design possibilities at the same level of ease, the CAD-enabled CFD design study environment is a real plus for designers who want to figure out – fast and with as little expense as possible – which design to move forward with when many design alternatives are at hand. (And when isn’t that the case?) What-ifs and Pass-fail criteria are always key decision-making motivators, thus CFdesign 2010 enables comparison of these criteria for several different designs. Key features include a design study bar and design review center, scenario cloning, direct modeling of external flow volumes, and direct modeling of mesh refinement regions, among others. Since many engineers aren’t experts in CAD environments and CFD, the environment renders its comparison results in standard engineering-speak. Additionally, this latest upgraded version supports the Intel Core i7 processor, automatically utilizing as many as four cores with the opportunity for additional core use. CFdesign 2010 supports Vista and Windows XP in their 32- and 64-bit flavors.