************************************************************************ T h e C o n n e c t o r The E-mail Newsletter for Gridgen Users November 2003 IN THIS ISSUE Current Release Coming In the Next Release Upcoming Gridgen Training Courses 7th Annual Pointwise/IL Aerospace Client Briefing and Breakfast Gridgen User Group Meeting Pointwise Event Schedule Gridgen Tricks and Tips Free Gridgen Manuals for Contributing Focal Point Articles ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ Current Release: Gridgen V15.01 Details on the current release can be found on our web site at: http://www.pointwise.com/library/relnotes.pdf. ************************************************************************ Coming In the Next Release Although our next maintenance release, V15.02, is not yet available, as a subscriber to The Connector you have access to a pre-release copy of the V15.02 release notes. Find out what new features and fixes are currently slated for the next MR here: http://www.pointwise.com/library/prerelnotes.pdf. ************************************************************************ Upcoming Gridgen Training Courses Gridgen Training Courses currently scheduled for next year at Pointwise's Fort Worth office include: 20-22 January 02-04 March 11-13 May 13-15 July 14-16 September 09-11 November Register early since the classes are kept small and fill up fast. More training information, including a registration form, can be found on our web site at: http://www.pointwise.com/support/train.shtml. ************************************************************************ 7th Annual Pointwise/IL Aerospace Client Briefing and Breakfast The 7th Annual Pointwise/Intelligent Light Aerospace Client Briefing and Breakfast will be held 06 January 2004 at the Reno Hilton in Reno, Nevada in conjunction with the AIAA's 42nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit. John Chawner, Pointwise's President, and Steve Legensky, Intelligent Light's Founder and General Manager, invite you to join them for this annual event. Recent advances in Gridgen and FIELDVIEW will be presented, as well as an inside look at future plans focused on helping you meet the challenges of applied CFD within a design environment. Space is limited! Sign-up today on-line at http://www.pointwise.com/reno. ************************************************************************ Gridgen User Group Meeting Pointwise is pleased to invite our customers and partners to participate in the Gridgen User Group Meeting 2004 to be held in our hometown of Fort Worth, Texas on April 5-6, 2004. Get all the details about UGM 2004 at http://www.pointwise.com/ugm2004/. ************************************************************************ Pointwise Event Schedule Pointwise will be participating in the following conferences and events during November 2003: 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and RD&D Expo 15-21 November 2003 Washington, D.C. http://www.asmeconferences.org/congress03/ For other events see our web site at http://www.pointwise.com/pointwise/events.shtml. ************************************************************************ Gridgen Tricks and Tips Did you know that Gridgen Glyph utility scripts are provided with your Gridgen V15 installation? With the release of V15.01 there are now 17 unique utility scripts. They are located in the "/utils" folder under your Gridgen V15 installation. There are many convenient scripts that, for instance, will automatically convert domains to database networks (Dom2DBEntity.glf), or automatically create a two connector circle from center, radius and dimension (ConCircleCenterandRadius.glf), or automatically set connector spacing constraints based on Y+ from freestream flowfield information (Y+ConnectorSpacing.glf). Try one out today! ************************************************************************ Free Gridgen Manuals for Contributing Focal Point Articles We are now looking for new article ideas for upcoming issues of Focal Point. Anyone contributing an article that is used in Focal Point will receive a free set of bound Gridgen V15 Manuals, a $76 value when purchased from our partners at OnDemandManuals.com. To obtain more information about contributing an article, please send an email to FocalPoint@pointwise.com. Everything you want to know about Focal Point, including how to subscribe, may be found at: http://www.pointwise.com/focalpt/. ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ Resources... 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