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Pointwise Accelerates Surface Meshing

New release provides 5X faster surface meshing for CFD.

Check Out Azore-Pointwise Integrated Workflow for Efficient CFD Simulation 

March 25, 2021 · The new functionality for the mesh import to AzoreCFD is based on collaborative development with Pointwise personnel and their plugin SDK. 

AzoreCFD Support Now Built In to Latest Pointwise Meshing Software

February 22, 2021 · The company's Pointwise software generates structured, unstructured, overset and hybrid meshes

Editor’s Pick: Automated surface mesh generation in leading CFD software

November 4, 2020 · Pre-processing software features a new utility for automated surface meshing.

Editor’s Picks: Oct. 15-21, 2020

October 22, 2020 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Debuts Intelligent Automatic Surface Meshing

October 16, 2020 · Pointwise’s new Automatic Surface Meshing capability takes as input a geometry model and a handful of user-defined goals for the mesh and automatically generates a geometry resolving, hybrid unstructured mesh with anisotropy.

Editor’s Picks: July 2-8, 2020

July 8, 2020 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Accelerates Surface Meshing

July 2, 2020 · New release provides 5X faster surface meshing for CFD.

Editor’s Picks: Sept. 19-25, 2019

September 27, 2019 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Mesh Generation Software Updated

September 19, 2019 · Software includes the ability to use regular hexahedra instead of unstructured tetrahedra in regions away from the geometry model.

Pointwise Adds Native Interface to Design Software ESP

March 11, 2019 · Although it's mostly a maintenance release, it includes new geometry model importa and user interface updates.

Editor’s Picks: February 28 to March 6, 2019

March 8, 2019 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Offers CFD Mesh Generation Software

October 9, 2018 · Pointwise Version 18.2 also accelerates the generation of surface meshes (named spacing constraints, a mesh spacing synchronization command, and a quick way to split curves into pieces of equal arclength), enhances the generation of hybrid meshes with the T-Rex technique, and offers improved user experiences.

Editor’s Picks: Sept. 20-26, 2018

September 27, 2018 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise’s CFD Meshing Software Updated

August 31, 2018 · This new release from Pointwise includes the ability to customize the near-wall mesh for accurate and efficient boundary layer resolution.

Editor’s Picks: August 23-29, 2018

August 31, 2018 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Pointwise Release Focuses on Mesh Automation

April 20, 2018 · This latest Pointwise release includes a suite of tools that provide increased automation and flexibility in mesh topology creation, mesh types and mesh quality assessment.

Editor’s Picks: April 5-11, 2018

April 13, 2018 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.

Removing the Meshing Bottleneck

October 1, 2017 · The common goal for meshing is to get accurate results fast enough to streamline the engineering process.

Pointwise Meshing Software Enhances Graphics

May 31, 2017 · Maintenance release of Pointwise's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) mesh generation software includes updated graphics capabilities.

Editor’s Picks for May 18-24, 2017

May 25, 2017 · One of the picks will be chosen as DE’s Editor’s Pick of the Week.


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