Today most analysis codes come with their own
preprocessor. Why should I buy the TrueGrid® stand-alone
preprocessor?
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Answer:
There are many reasons but the 2 most compelling are speed and quality. When
it comes to quality, today's analysis companies have many other topics on which
to focus their software talent such as new elements, more sophisticated contact
algorithms, material models that keep up with today's never-ending advances
in Engineering Mechanics and slicker GUIs. On top of all that, high quality
hexahedral mesh generation on complex geometries is a hard problem quite unlike
the problem of accurately calculating stress gradients or vortex migration.
Our company does not author analysis code. We only do mesh generation and
we do it very well.
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The other compelling reason is speed. Preprocessing is typically 80% or
more of the time taken to conduct a simulation. Faster mesh generation,
with no reduction or even an increase in mesh quality, is your best way
to reduce simulation costs. Your employee's time, not the price of the
software, is the real cost of generating a mesh.
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From a company-wide perspective, TrueGrid®'s parametric batch
input capability and our company's dedication to backward compatibility
makes it easy to document the analysis code's input and to regenerate
input files initially generated years before or by analysts in different
departments. Such reproducibility is essential to the effort of
building and preserving analytic knowledge within the company and may even
be required for government sub-contractors.
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Finally, full utilization of TrueGrid®'s parametric capabilities can
be a tremendous aid in the manufacturing sector, enabling high-speed auto
hex generation across a company's complete product line. Once all potential
variations of a product's design are encoded in the TrueGrid®input file,
the user only has to enter a few parameters, run the input file and proceed
immediately to the analysis. Companies that have taken the time to
make this investment enjoy a substantial advantage over rivals who
may be taking weeks generating a bad mesh with so-called "automatic"
mesh generators.
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