CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

29 February 2012

Product News

C&R Technologies and SpaceClaim Announce New Mesh Generation Module

C&R Technologies, SpaceClaim OEM partner and provider of comprehensive software for heat transfer analysis and fluid flow analysis, and SpaceClaim announced a major new model for CRTech SpaceClaim, Mesh Generation for SpaceClaim. CRTech SpaceClaim is an extension of SpaceClaim Engineer specifically for designers needing part- or system-level simulations of heat transfer and fluid flow, including thermal radiation, convection, and contact resistance.

The new Mesh Generation module represents the first-ever advanced FEA mesher built into SpaceClaim, taking advantage of SpaceClaim's features for importing, healing, and de-featuring third-party CAD drawings. More than just an advanced mesh generator for parts and assemblies, Mesh Generation for SpaceClaim allows analysts to define materials and optical properties, initial and boundary conditions, insulation, convection, contact, and so forth in preparation for active linking with CRTech's Thermal Desktop suite. Updates to geometry and meshes are shared, such that Thermal Desktop users can update their thermal models with a single button click.

"Dealing with defective and inappropriately detailed CAD geometry used to be the bane of the thermal engineer," explains Doug Bell, a CRTech thermal analyst. "When a design change came in, the engineer had to start all over, which could take days if not weeks. With these new tools, we have an easy to use and inexpensive to deploy CAD system of our own. We can build parts with little training and no concerns about retention for infrequent use. More importantly, we can accept any file type, clean it up, add thermal information, mesh it, and get results -- all within a few hours! Updated predictions are now minutes away when the design changes. All traditional bottlenecks in the process have been removed, so the productivity improvements are nothing short of astonishing."

"We are thrilled that CRTech has created this cutting-edge new meshing capability," said Rich Moore, Vice President of Business Development, "because it ensures that through this OEM relationship SpaceClaim can continue to expand aggressively into the industries targeted by C&RTech, such as aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, petrochemical, electronics, automotive, energy, and others such as defense and educational markets."

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