Pointwise is solving the top problem facing engineering analysts today: grid generation for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), and other numerical simulations. The company has been a premier supplier of grid generation software and services to the engineering analysis community since 1994. With its decades of expertise in development, support, and application of robust software for real-world meshing challenges, Pointwise has helped industry, government, and academic clients worldwide bridge the "design - analysis gap."

Mesh Generation Software

Pointwise is our next-generation product, the future of reliable CFD meshing software. It integrates 24 years of meshing technology development with a modern software framework and interface and provides tools like Undo & Redo, 64-bit support, and multi-threading. More...

Gridgen Gridgen is our classic mesh generation software. In a highly automated manner Gridgen generates structured hexahedral grids, unstructured tetrahedral meshes, and hybrid meshes including prisms and pyramids. Gridgen integrates nicely into a design environment with its open access to CAD geometry, fault tolerant geometry utilization, Windows^® Linux^®, Mac^®, and Unix^®, portability, scriptability, and native interfaces to CFD solvers. More...

Native CAD Readers: Minimize CAD interoperability problems by reading CAD data from native files without using a CAD license. NCRs are one component of our CAD interoperability strategy and support STEP, Pro/E, NX, CATIA V4, and CATIA V5 files. More...

Support & Services

Training: Come up to speed on the latest tools and techniques or take an opportunity to learn the software from the ground up. Courses are held in Fort Worth, around the country, and at your site. More...

Glyph Glyph Scripting: The scripting language in Gridgen and Pointwise provides procedural access to all the functionality so that customized tools and templates can be developed. Journaling is available to produce a scripted record of your interactive session and the ability to define and use variables provides parametric capability. with Glyph scripts. The Script Exchange is an open forum provides a wide variety of scripted meshing tools for you to download and run today. More...

Applied Research

Custom Development: Our Applied Research team can customize the software for your requirements, develop an automated meshing template using scripting, or generate meshes for you. at our site or yours. More...