PointWise 18.5 R1 build 2021.11.11

Pointwise 18.5 Release 1 Release Notes - Date: November 2021
New Features
- A function has been added to the unstructured block solver to improve cell quality after initialization. It uses weighted condition number smoothing to change unstructured and voxel block grid point locations to improve cell quality.
- Automatic Volume Mesh has been introduced allowing unstructured blocks to be generated automatically for surface meshes by specifying volume meshing extents, shape, and resolution goals.
- Automatic Surface Mesh has been enhanced to include user created boundary conditions, enhanced T-Rex performance out of tight corners as well as other improvements.
- The slope of database curves and connectors can now be explicitly controlled to enforce tangency, normalcy, or orthogonality.
- The Patch command has been enhanced to now provide pending surfaces which maintain slope tangency with the surrounding surface or surfaces, automatically.
- A new unstructured algorithm, Thin Surface Interpolation, has been introduced specifically to improve cell structure of thin and tapered domains.
- Import and Export upgrades including:
. AVMesh V2 export is now supported
. Boundary and Volume Conditions as well as standard extensions are now available for UGRID
. MFEM has been added to CAE Solvers.
. Catia V6 is now supported
. Units can be specified for CGNS

PW-13599 Create, Intersect was creating an incomplete intersection.
PW-14273 A surface was not being trimmed correctly using Trim by Surfaces.
PW-20821 A surface was not being correctly trimmed by a plane.
PW-21380 A wing and nacelle were unable to be trimmed with each other.
PW-21531 Trim by Surfaces was did not correctly identify an intersection.
PW-21556 T-Rex initialization in a very large mesh led to an unexpected exit.
PW-22205 A file would encounter an error when being saved that prevented the file from being saved.
PW-22219 Mirroring a block resulted in Negative Jacobians.
PW-22322 An IGES file imported with incorrectly collapsed geometry.
PW-22939 A SLDPRT file was unable to be imported on Linux or Mac.
PW-23017 Two models were unable to be trimmed consistently based upon Model Size.
PW-23145 A T-Rex initialization resulted in floating faces when exported to CFX.
PW-23276 A Match connector between two domains had very large spacing.
PW-23344 Updating the distribution of a connector resulted in an unexpected exit.
PW-23445 A voxel block contained no voxels after initialization.
PW-23490 Copying and Pasting a database and block caused changes to the block.
PW-23494 NSU3D exporter took longer than expected to export a grid.
PW-23495 Mirroring a block and database emptied the block.
PW-23505 The isotropic portion of block initialization was not completing.
PW-23534 SU2 Import now supports volume conditions.
PW-23554 Two glyph commands that could be used for database export produce different results.
PW-23564 Copy/Paste caused erratic behavior in parts of the pasted grid.
PW-23575 Grid, Dimension was re-dimensioning connectors without user input.
PW-23584 Parameter sets were not being exported to the .nmb file format.
PW-23585 Groups of quilts can now be selected via glyph scripting.
PW-23597 Floating connectors in the structured block solver did not snap to new positions.
PW-23599 Information about running in batch on the Windows platform has been added to the user manual.
PW-23611 2D T-Rex had inconsistent initial spacing.
PW-23638 A boundary condition setting was preventing a voxel block from initializing.
PW-23676 A message has been added to the user manual to state that we do not import higher order grids.
PW-23677 When higher order export fails due to a negative jacobian, the value and centroid location of the offending cell are printed to the messages window.
PW-23679 Pointwise hangs while changing the distribution type of several connectors simultaneously on Linux.
PW-23741 The plugin SDK was failing verification in a newer gcc version.
PW-23745 The View Manipulator was not working on Mac when using an external monitor.
PW-23750 T-Rex recombination created overlapping faces.
PW-23793 T-Rex was stopping short adjacent to a symmetry domain.
PW-23851 A Fluent .cas file could not be imported into Pointwise.

Pointwiseis solving the top problem facing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) today - reliably generating high-fidelity meshes. The company's Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured, overset and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, OpenFOAM, and SU2 as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and has a scripting language, Glyph, that can automate CFD meshing. Manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide have relied on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution since 1994.
Pointwise, the Choice for CFD Mesh Generation.
Pointwise, Inc.is solving the top problem facing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) today - reliably generating high-fidelity meshes. The company's Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured, overset and hybrid meshes; interfaces with CFD solvers such as ANSYS FLUENT, STAR-CCM+, OpenFOAM, and SU2 as well as many neutral formats, such as CGNS; runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, and has a scripting language, Glyph, that can automate CFD meshing. Manufacturing firms and research organizations worldwide have relied on Pointwise as their complete CFD preprocessing solution since 1994.
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Product:PointWise
Version:18.5 R1 build 2021-11-11 with Tutorials
Supported Architectures:x64
Website Home Page :www.pointwise.com
Languages Supported:english
System Requirements:Windows / Linux / macOs *
Size:2.0 Gb

Platform Support
Minimum Requirements for All Platforms:
- At least 16 GB RAM (64 GB recommended)
- At least 2 GB disk space (512 GB recommended)
- Ethernet card
- OpenGL compatible monitor with at least 1280x1024 screen resolution (up to 4K)
- Dedicated professional graphics card supporting 3D hardware-accelerated OpenGL and 24-bit RGB double-buffering
- Up-to-date graphics accelerator drivers
Note:Pointwise does not support 32-bit platforms.
Microsoft Windows
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
Linux
- CentOS 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4
- SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 12.3
- Ubuntu Desktop 16.04
MacOsx
- High Sierra 10.13



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