The following
capabilities have been added or expanded:
General:
AutoCAD® 2009 compatibility.
Installer available for 64-bit OS with AutoCAD 2008 and higher.
Finite elements can be exported to NASTRAN.
Symbol definition allows rules for exporting Symbol as SINDA/FLUINT Register.
Thermal Desktop:
A new built-in mesher, TDMesh, allows creation of finite elements based on AutoCAD surfaces, regions, or solids. Finite elements can be generated as a free mesh or extruded or revolved from a surface. The mesh definition includes element size and the assignment of properties (material, radiation, etc.) to the planar and solid finite elements. The mesh definition can be modified after it is created or the elements properties modified individually. The mesh can be updated to account for changes to the underlying geometry.
Map objects allow Thermal Desktop post processed results to be mapped to an external mesh (NASTRAN, FEMAP, ANSYS or I-deas). The map object is a graphical object that can be aligned to the thermal model and copied to map multiple occurances of the part represented by the external mesh. An interpolation routine allows different resolutions in the thermal model and external model.
The Boundary Condition Map Object maps time-and temperature-dependent heat fluxes from CFD results to the Thermal Desktop model. An interpolation routine allows different resolutions in the thermal model and CFD model.
Network Element Logic can be defined for condutors. The user-defined logic allows a generic block of code to be expanded for all conductors created by the conductor definition.
When initial temperatures are set from previous solutions, nodes can be excluded from the initialization to allow expressions to remain intact.
An Enabled button has been added to thermal network element (conductors, contactors, heatloads, etc.) edit forms to allow disabling the element by expression. Disabled elements are excluded from the SINDA input file.
Heater register labels can be set by the user to allow easy recognition in the SINDA/FLUINT input file and post processing.
RadCAD:
Heatrate symbols can now be exported to SINDA as registers.
Radiation analysis tasks are now defined within a form instead of in the Case Set Manager.
FloCAD:
Network Element Logic can be defined for paths and ties. The user-defined logic allows a generic block of code to be applied to a group of paths or ties.
Lumps can now be initialized from an existing SINDA/FLUINT solution. The user has the option to exclude lumps from initialization.
