June 30, 2020: India- Bricsys welcomes Jaishankar Menon as our Head of Sales for the Indian subcontinent, a geography that also includes Sri Lanka, Bangladesh & Nepal.

Mr. Menon has more than two decades of experience in the engineering design, technical software and enterprise systems space. He joins Bricsys after growing sales, distribution channels and operations for leading software companies like Oracle, PTC, Dassault Systemes, Autodesk & Bentley Systems. He has built strong distribution, technology and academic partnerships across the region.

Mr. Menon helped increase the adoption of Autodesk Revit in India, working with over 500 AEC firms on the subcontinent. His work led to record-breaking revenues for the AEC division at Autodesk. He has specific expertise in product packaging, pricing and distribution strategies customized for the Indian markets.

“I am looking forward to supporting the Bricsys vision to provide tools for people who build things. It’s a perfect time to re-launch the BricsCAD brand in India, as we are in a new phase of nation-building across infrastructure, manufacturing, and digitalization,” Mr. Menon stated. “I will work to build strategic relationships between product users, channel partners, software developers (ISV’s), training centers and technical & engineering colleges.”

Chris Lee, Bricsys VP of APAC, said: “The Bricsys team is excited to welcome Jaishankar Menon as our new leader for India. India plays a critical role in the world’s economy. His work will help us deliver on the Bricsys commitment to bring the best CAD products to our clients & business partners. Bricsys believes in the future of DWG. Jaishankar will bring new energy into the Indian CAD community and sales channels across the subcontinent.”

Mr. Menon earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University. Please join us in welcoming him to Bricsys and the Hexagon family.

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BRACKNELL, UK, Jul 1, 2020 – OpenCFD is pleased to announce the June 2020 release of OpenFOAM v2006 (20 06). This release extends OpenFOAM-v1912 features across many areas of the code. The new functionality represents development sponsored by OpenCFD’s customers, internally funded developments, and integration of features and changes from the OpenFOAM community.

OpenFOAM is distributed by OpenCFD under the GPL license as:

1. Source code to be compiled on any Linux system
2. Pre-compiled binary installation for Linux systems
3. Pre-compiled binary installation for Mac OS X systems
4. MS Windows installer
5. Bash on Ubuntu on Windows for MS Windows 10

Please refer to the download instructions to obtain the code.

The development repositories are publicly available. These repositories are regularly updated with bug fixes and new functionality.

Upgrading

1. Help for users is provided in the user upgrade guide.
2. Help for developers is provided in the developer upgrade guide.
3. We have also initiated documentation on coding patterns to improve the understanding of some typical idioms, where the reasoning may not be immediately obvious or where there are advantages to using a particular approach. We are happy to incorporate content!

Pre-processing

1. Improved blockMesh utility more…
2. New baffle creation in blockMesh more…
3. New ramp Function1 more…
4. New expression Function1 more…
5. New expression PatchFunction1 more…
6. New coded PatchFunction1 more…
7. snappyHexMesh: New controls to disable gap refinement more…

Numerics

1. Improved Arbitrary Mesh Interface (AMI) more…
2. Community contribution: Integration of OpenQBMM more…
3. New dense-matrix eigendecomposition solver more…
4. Community contribution: New and improved adjoint optimisation tools more…
5. New directional meshwave more…
6. Governance contribution: New external solver module more…

Solvers and physical models

1. Improved thermal baffle more…
2. Improved handling for particle injection bounds more…
3. New particle Weber number cloud function object more…
4. Improved Curle function object more…
5. Improved multiphase phase change more…
6. Community contribution: New isoAdvector solvers more…
7. New pipelined Conjugate Gradient (CG) solvers more…
8. New cloud function object to remove particles more…
9. Improved lumped point movement for large structures more…
10. Community contribution: New and updated avalanche and mud slide tools more…

Boundary conditions

1. New suite of atmospheric boundary layer tools more…
2. New wall-blending for low- and high-Reynolds number flows more….

Post-processing

1. Improved data conversion to Ensight format more…
2. New momentum error function object more…
3. New reading of Abaqus surface files more…
4. Community contribution: New interface height function object more…
5. New Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) tools more…
6. New Obukhov length function object more…
7. Community contribution: New log(x) function object more…
8. New pow(x) function object more…
9. Improved controls for sampled surfaces more…

Build system

1. New pre-compiled packages more…
2. Improved wmake build system more…
3. Visualization Module more…

Documentation

1. Overhaul of OpenFOAM user documentation more…

About OpenFOAM

OpenFOAM is the free, open source CFD software released and developed primarily by OpenCFD Ltd since 2004. It has a large user base across most areas of engineering and science, from both commercial and academic organizations. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to acoustics, solid mechanics and electromagnetics. For more information, visit https://www.openfoam.com.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jul 1, 2020 – NUMECA is delighted to announce the official release of FINE/Acoustics version 9.1. FINE/Acoustics is a complete simulation suite for the analysis of a broad range of industrial applications involving Acoustics, Vibro-Acoustics and Aero-Acoustics, from fast pre-design calculations to detailed large-scale analysis.

Discover the advantages of the newest version of FINE/Acoustics, NUMECA’s integrated simulation suite for Aero-Vibro-Acoustics.

Improved Wizard for Tonal and Broadband Noise Analysis for Turbomachinery 

Speed 

The new solver is 2x faster and consumes less memory, allowing engineers to simulate larger, memory intensive cases. The parallelized FEM solver uses the MPI standard (Linux and Windows OS) and is based on full domain decomposition, enabling considerable savings of engineering and simulation time

Ease-Of-Use

The wizard offers a fully automated chain, requiring minimal user inputs and operations.

For direct tonal noise radiation analysis, the NLH solution is directly propagated to the far-field through the Boudary Element Method (BEM – Green’s function) for the computation of sound power and noise levels at microphones. The generation of the BEM radiation surface is supported by a new interactive tool that helps identify optimal surface position and mesh resolution.

Robustness

Users can now really exploit the full computational power of their computers, thanks to improved Flow-Noise memory management. Optimized dynamic distribution of the computational load across cores takes into account the available free memory on the computing machine. This means reduced temporary disk space through the reduction of the flow-noise source size stored on disk and the reduction of temporary files.

Further improved robustness was obtained thanks to work-flow simplification, the enhancement of the internal diagnostic checks and a massive validation test campaigns performed on academic and industrial configurations.

Wizard work-flow and interface

Muffler Wizard with Computation of Insertion Loss (IL) 

The wizard for the computation of the Transmission Loss (TL), already available in FINE™/Acoustics version 8, has been extended with prediction of the Insertion Loss (IL).

One of the main advantages of this is that it enables analysis of an extended frequency range. TL analysis is limited to relatively low frequencies, compatible with planar acoustic waves propagating in the inlet and outlet ducts. This limitation does not affect the IL analysis.

The wizard now also offers the capability to model sound propagation through infinitely long ducts and open ducts (at the outlet termination) and the microphones can be located in the far-field, externally to the muffler duct.

The wizard is more robust and features an enhanced look-&-feel, thanks to added guidelines and improved widget graphics. Added info/warning/error messages and log files improve interaction.

Example of wizard generated output of acoustic pressure analysis of a muffler

About NUMECA International

NUMECA International is a leading developer and provider of Grid Generation, Multi-physics – CFD software systems for analysis, design, and optimization of industrial products and processes, with an emphasis in the domains of turbomachinery, marine, aeronautics, aerospace, energy, chemical processes and multi-physics. NUMECA offers an extended suite of software systems covering a broad range of applications for both internal and external flows, including fluid-structure, fluid thermal, aero-acoustic interactions.

Driven by creativity, innovation & quality, we proudly turn our passion into innovative software toolsets that support the world’s leading industries. For more information, visit www.numeca.com.

NEW YORK, NY, USA, Jul 1, 2020 – Global BIM and EAM consulting firm Microdesk, a leading provider of business and technology services for the design and construction industry, has expanded its comprehensive BIMrx portfolio with the release of BIMrx Fabrication and BIMrx MEP as well as updates to BIMrx Core. Each of these custom-tailored solutions allow Architects, Engineers and Contractors to streamline workflows and maximize efficiency within Autodesk Revit.

BIMrx Fabrication was built by construction professionals to ensure the accuracy and effectiveness of everyday fabrication workflows. Regular tasks like tagging, spooling and hangers are automated, and designers have access to database properties of these parts for simplified reporting and estimating through Microsoft Excel. BIMrx Fabrication brings true automated fabrication capabilities to Autodesk Revit.

BIMrx MEP adds important tools to Revit for system management by providing engineers and designers the ability to edit objects in a single interface. Users will be able to utilize BIMrx MEP to undergo clash detection within 3D models that display accurate spatial layouts and engineering data. Designers can also manage segments and parameters within families through formulas in Microsoft Excel.

Additionally, Microdesk released the latest version of BIMrx Cloud Manager, formerly Bulk Loader, an application that allows AECO firms to easily and quickly add and manage projects, users and data in Autodesk BIM 360. BIMrx Cloud Manager is essential for full network synchronization between local storage and BIM 360. The application also includes bulk upload, project creation and browsing capabilities, as well as the ability to export enterprise and project data to excel for advanced reporting and analysis. BIMrx Cloud Manager is the ideal tool for firms managing projects in BIM 360.

“We want to alleviate common pain points designers in our industry deal with every day, and we believe the tools built into BIMrx Fabrication, MEP and Cloud Manager are a significant step in this process,” said Michael DeLacey, President and CEO of Microdesk.  “Our goal is to help our clients spend less time on administrative tasks and more time innovating for creative and sustainable projects.”

Special introductory pricing will be available for a limited time.

For more information on the complete BIMrx product line, please visit the https://www.microdesk.com  or call (800) 336-3375.

TRIESTE, Italy, Jun 30, 2020 – ESTECO pleased to announce that, with the new hybrid edition of ESTECO Users’ Meeting 2020 approaching, the agenda is taking shape with the first keynote speakers from two major international companies.

Toru Inaba from Takenaka Corporation and Juan Montoro from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics will share their experience with the application of VOLTA for SPDM in the architectural and aerospace fields. Register now and don’t miss these engaging presentations from prominent professionals.

Toru Inaba, Head Office at Computational Design Group at Takenaka, specialized in steel-structures and has developed several design programs in this field. He will join ESTECO Users’ Meeting 2020 with a speech titled “Application of a collaborative web tool for structural design projects in the architectural field” and will present on how at Takenaka they could benefit from VOLTA technology to seamlessly share the analysis results and complex simulation projects with other teams.

Juan Montoro is Conceptual Design Engineering Manager at Lockheed Martin and has a 20-year experience in commercial and military aircraft, rotorcraft and UAV design and development. At the ESTECO Users’ Meeting 2020 he will present “The EXPEDITE program and the benefits of VOLTA as a server based MDO framework” on the shift of moving MDO from a desktop to a server based approach. Here he will explain how they used VOLTA to foster Multidisciplinary Design Optimization and develop an optimization workflow of a close air support vehicle.

Register now to listen to Takenaka and Lockheed Martin’s success stories featuring ESTECO technology. Join us virtually or on-site on 30 September and 1 October 2020.

FORT WORTH, TX, USA, Jun 30, 2020 – The latest release of Pointwise’s computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software accelerates its surface meshing process by up to a factor of five on benchmark grids.

The surface meshes (gray) on NASA’s Common Research Model were generated using the new, faster surface meshing. The cut through the hex-core volume mesh shows multiple levels of mesh refinement (colors indicate cell volume). The cyan mesh illustrates how the hex-core mesh topology is imprinted onto the symmetry plane.

“’Accelerate’ is one of our three main development thrusts,” said John Chawner, Pointwise’s president. “Anything we can do to speed-up the software improves the user’s experience and shrinks the time required to generate a CFD mesh.” The speed-up targets multi-core desktop systems. Meshing B-Rep NURBS geometry models now uses multi-threading.

Pointwise V18.3 R2 also extends hex-core meshing, introduced in the software’s previous release, to imprint the hex-core cell topology onto symmetry planes. In addition, high-order mesh curving now supports periodicity making high-order meshes much more suitable for turbomachinery applications.

Customers can immediately download Pointwise V18.3 R2 from pointwise.com/downloads.

About Pointwise, Inc.

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 and CFX, 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. For more information, visit www.pointwise.com.

SANTA CLARA, CA, USA, Jun 29, 2020 – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced three new additions to the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processor family – the AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT and AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT processors. Introducing XT branding for the first time to the Ryzen family of processors, the new AMD Ryzen 3000XT desktop processors are purpose-built to maximize performance under any workload. Expanding on the award-winning 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen processor family, 3000XT series desktop processors are optimized with higher boost frequencies to deliver elite-level performance that dominates gaming and content creation.

Today also marks worldwide availability of the AMD B550 chipset, the first mainstream chipset with support for PCIe 4.0. Available in a variety of motherboard form factors, the AMD B550 chipset is perfect for high-speed performance in both gaming and multitasking. Additionally, AMD announced the A520 chipset for socket AM4 and 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen desktop processors with more than 40 designs in development. Alongside these new chipset and processors, AMD also announced the redesigned StoreMI storage acceleration software with a new UI and enhanced acceleration algorithm.

“At AMD, we are committed to listening closely to our customers and the enthusiast community to deliver leadership products,” said Saeid Moshkelani, senior vice president and general manager, client business unit. “With AMD Ryzen 3000XT processors, we’re making additional optimizations to the 7nm manufacturing process to deliver industry leading single-thread performance and more choice and flexibility for enthusiasts.”

AMD Ryzen 3000XT Series Processors

Building upon the legacy established by the 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen processor family, the 3000XT Series processors elevate the world-class “Zen 2” architecture with an optimized 7nm manufacturing process technology to offer higher boost frequency and increased performance at the same TDPs of their Ryzen 3000 counterparts.

The AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT offers:

1. Up to 4% increase in single-threaded performance over AMD Ryzen 3000 desktop processors
2. Up to 40% more power efficiency than the competition