PointWise 18.6 R1 

The Pointwise CFD product team is pleased to announce the availability of Pointwise 18.6 Release 1 is our leading mesh generation software product for CFD, encompassing nearly three decades of technology development.

Pointwise 18.6 Release 1 Release Notes - Date: May 2022

New Features
- Fidelity Pointwise 2022.1 now uses FlexNet for license management. Fidelity Pointwise V18.6 (functionally equivalent) supports Reprise License Manager.
- A function was added to the unstructured block solver that speeds up T-Rex initialization times by allowing T-Rex to advance multiple layers with each step.
- Two new examine metrics were added for estimating required curving during high-order export: Database Deviation and Relative Database Deviation.
- Domains created by using On Database Entities now inherit the quilt name.
- Saving a file using Save Selection As will now keep only the named layers that contain selected entities rather than keeping all named layers.
- A new keyboard shortcut was added for isolating masks: Ctrl + LMB + Mask toolbar icon.
- A new Glyph command was added to compute the minimum distance between database surfaces.
- A new ability to hide assigned volume conditions was added to the CAE, Volume Conditions panel.
- The default value for voxel transition layers was updated to 5.
- The following versions are now supported for database import: NX CR 1980, Parasolid 33, and Creo 8.

Pointwise 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.

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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