MentorGraphics Flo-THERM-PSB-VENT Suite v11.1 FloTHERM uses advanced CFD techniques to predict airflow, temperature, and heat transfer in components, boards, and complete systems, including racks and data centers. It's also the industry's best solution for integration with MCAD and EDA software. FloTHERM is the undisputed world leader for electronics thermal analysis, with a 98 percent user recommendation rating. It supports more users, application examples, libraries and published technical papers than any competing product. FloMCAD™ Bridge FloMCAD Bridge enables parts and assemblies to be transferred easily and rapidly to FloTHERM for thermal analysis from mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) software such as Creo Parametric, SolidWorks and CATIA. FloMCAD Bridge 64-bit support enables larger MCAD designs to be imported. It then intelligently filters the geometrical data for a particular part or assembly and creates a simplified “thermal equivalent” for analysis purposes. The voxelization method used to translate MCAD geometry into analysis objects was recently re-engineered to be 20 times faster and much smarter, ensuring that coincident faces on different bodies maintain that connection after translation. This is critical because production-quality MCAD solid models contain a vast amount of thermally insignificant geometric detail such as fillets, small holes, chamfers and screw threads. These details provide no accuracy benefit if included, but can drastically slow down the solution process. The ability to de-feature a part to match its thermal importance prior to translation offers a massive improvement in the efficiency of the model creation workflow process.