Comet/Thermal
In collaboration with Cullimore and Ring Technologies, Inc , Comet Solutions has developed a robust bi-directional integration with the widely used Thermal Desktop/Sinda applications for advanced thermal analysis.
Comet/Thermal is a thermal-specific bundle of Comet®, the innovative multi-physics engineering analysis environment from Comet Solutions, Inc. Developed specifically to integrate seamlessly with CRTech’s Thermal Desktop® product, Comet/Thermal greatly extends the analysis capabilities and productivity of the Thermal Desktop user. Comet/Thermal Workshop enables the bi-directional associativity of 3-D CAD geometry used in standard thermal analysis work processes. Comet/Thermal Workshop provides capabilities for importing native CAD (e.g., Pro/Engineer, Solidworks, UG/NX CAD) and passing corresponding meshes and other model information seamlessly into Thermal Desktop. In the Comet/Thermal environment, objects may be “tagged” as needed to describe boundary conditions, contact conductance, heater locations, etc. Once the analysis process has been created and saved, if the CAD geometry is altered, then the Comet process template can be used to automatically update the Thermal Desktop model.
The Coemt/Thermal environment can also be easily extended to enable process automation of other multi-disciplinary and multi-physics engineering analysis domains. In addition to executing a SINDA/FLUINT thermal analysis in the traditional “batch execution” mode from within a pre-defined Comet process template, Comet/Thermal and Thermal Desktop can be running simultaneously with 3D CAD software during an interactive thermal model building session on the thermal engineer’s workstation. This enables the thermal analyst to leverage the unique capabilities above of Comet/Thermal while still working from within the familiar environment of Thermal Desktop. Comet/Thermal will enable thermal analysts to significant increase their analysis process productivity and spend more time evaluating “what if” design alternatives vs. repeatedly performing manual and error-prone geometry manipulation and model building/meshing tasks.
As an inherent aspect of working in Comet/Thermal, all relevant inputs and output results for each analysis iteration are automatically tracked and manged within the Comet Project. This “work-in-progress” data management provides a documented history of the analysis inputs, models created and thermal analysis process definition along with first-level configuration management of results within a shared drive project folder requiring no incremental IT overhead. Analysis processes and associated data residing in a Comet/Thermal project can be shared and used across multiple members of a project team and copied for re-use across projects and with partners/suppliers.