What's New in the Latest Release of the Pointwise CFD Mesh Generation Software

An advancing front algorithm may now be used to generate unstructured surface meshes. This method is an alternative to the Delaunay algorithm currently in use and can be applied on a domain-by-domain basis or as the default method for all new domains.

The PW file format has been changed from HDF5 to a proprietary format that is up to 100 times faster to read and write.

The Distribute command now provides the ability to probe the grid spacing values at individual grid points.

When copying a distribution of grid points from one connector to another, the direction of the connectors being copied from is now displayed.

Similar to the Add/Remove Faces for unstructured blocks, adding and removing edges for unstructured domains has been added to the Edit menu.

The Edit menu's Add Faces command has been extended to also provide removal of faces from a block. The command is now called Add/Remove Faces.

Global grid and flow attributes (for example, freestream Mach number, units) can now be set and exported for the CAE solvers that support them.

Glide (whether or not the grid continues to pan, zoom, or rotate after you stop moving the mouse) can now be toggled on or off as a preference.

Many new accelerator keys (for example, Ctrl+J for Join) have been added to the product.

The On Database Entities command for creating connectors has been extended to work directly with Database Boundaries (the minimum and maximum iso-parametric lines of an untrimmed surface, or any of the bounding edges of a trimmed surface). This means you no longer have to manually trace those boundaries or create connectors for a surface and delete the boundaries you don't want.

New functions were added to the API to better support CAE solvers that support grid data in face-based rather than node-based format.

The CAE solver interfaces for CFX, Cobalt, Fluent, SC/Tetra, and STAR-CD have been updated.