Today we’re talking about an integral part of most CFD processes that often get’s ignored. It comes before we start our CFD process, yet often has a huge impact on that process — CAD.

I’m chatting with Mark Gammon, Technical Director of the Cambridge office of ITI & one of the team behind their software package CADfix (the clue is in the name). Mark has an in-depth knowledge of CAD that many of us CFD people don’t & he fills me in on:

• what makes CAD so tricky to work with in the first place & why solid modelling isn’t really;

• what on earth a medial object is & why it could be hugely important for CFD meshing;

• what sort of pre-meshing / CAD-cleanup jobs we’ll soon be able to automate & whether we’re about to lose the human from the CFD meshing loop;

• why going back-to-CAD is still such a tricky problem.

Shownotes

CADfix — http://www.iti-global.com/cadfix & https://twitter.com/CADfix