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Pointwise V17.3 New FeaturesErick J. S. GanttEngineering Specialist, Technical SupportNick J. WymanDirector Applied Research

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Overview

• New CAE plugins

• Improved and updated CAD readers

• Save selection and environment

• Other new I/O

• Improved layer assignment

• Enhanced connector projection

• Database point projection

• Improved normals in Orient

• T-Rex attributes table and defaults

• Drawing Guide

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New CAE Solvers

• ADS

• Edge

• Gmsh

• LAURA

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Improved and Updated CAD Readers

CAD Reader File Extension Pointwise V17.3

CATIA V4 .model,.dlv.exp,.session

All 4.xx versions

CATIA V5 .CATPart, .CATProduct, .cgr

R10 > R24

NX Unigraphics .prt V11.0 > NX 9.0

Pro/Engineer .prt, .asm 13 > Creo 2 M120

Pro/Engineer .neu 13 > WF5

SolidWorks .sldprt, .sldasm All versions > 2014

Parasolid XT .x_t, .x_b All versions > V22

ACIS SAT .sat All versions > R21

STEP .stp, .step AP203, AP214, AP242

STL .stl

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Save Selection As

• File, Save Selection As allows you to save selected entities to a Pointwise Project (.pw) file.

• Any supporting entities will also be written to the project file regardless of selection, layer status, and show/hide status.

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Save/Open Environment

• File, Save Environment lets you save your Pointwise environment data to a .pw file.

• File, Open Environment lets you load the environment of any .pw file while excluding grid and database entities.

• Data included in the Pointwise environment:– All tolerances (Model Size, Node, Connector, Grid Point)

– All settings defined in the Defaults panel.

– Layers description and associated layer numbers

– View information (Current view, Saved Views, View Type, light source type and direction, Show Type settings)

– Saved Examine cuts

– Grid type (Structured, Unstructured)

– T-Rex Boundary Conditions

– CAE information (CAE Solver, CAE Dimension, CAE Attributes, Boundary and Volume Conditions, Mirror Plane settings)

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Other New I/O

• STL multi-mesh is now supported for import and export, ASCII and binary.– Export of domains preserves domain topology and naming.

– Export of unstructured blocks preserves face topology and applies default naming using the block name as a basename.

– Export of structured blocks preserves face topology and applies default naming using the block name as a basename.

• PLOT3D attributes now fully supported– Single and mult-block

– IBLANK

– 1D and 2D

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Improved Layer Assignment

• The layer assignment process has been updated

• Assignment task moved to the top of Layers tab

• Option added to include parent entities when changing layer assignment

• Use Apply command to save assignment changes

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Enhanced Connector Projection

• Edit, Project now has two options for connector projection:– Project Points

– Project Shape

• Project Points– The grid points are projected

onto the target database surfaces.

– A control point is stored for each projected grid point on the surface.

– The distribution of grid points for the projected connector is stored discretely in memory as a General distribution function.

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Enhanced Connector Projection

• Project Shape– Only the connector shape is

projected onto the target database surfaces.

– The dimension and distribution of the original connector are maintained throughout the projection.

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Database Point Projection

Database points can now be projected onto database surfaces.

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Improved Normals in Orient

Normals are now rendered for structured domains in Orient.

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T-Rex Attributes Table and Defaults

• A new attributes table listing adjacent grid data for match BCs has been added to Solve on the T-Rex tab.

• Defaults can now be set for T-Rex attributes.

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Drawing Guide• Show, Show Drawing Guide controls

whether a drawing guide overlay is shown in the Display window.

• Drawing Guide size (density), color, and transparency can be set in Edit, Preferences.

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Thank you for attending our webinar!

The recorded video of the webinar will be available on our website on March 2, 2015:

http://www.pointwise.com/webinar/

Please contact us with any questions you have about the webinar (webinar@pointwise.com) or about the new features shown today (support@pointwise.com).