Comet/Thermal Workshop

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.

Thermal Workshop is a thermal-specific version of Comet®, the innovative multi-physics engineering analysis environment from Comet Solutions, Inc. Developed specifically to integrate seamlessly with CRTech’s Thermal Desktop® product, Thermal Workshop greatly extends the analysis capabilities and productivity of the Thermal Desktop user. Thermal Workshop solves long-standing problems associated with the extraction of geometry from CAD models to thermal analysis software. Thermal Workshop provides capabilities for importing native CAD (e.g., Pro/E, Solidworks, NX CAD), ACIS, STEP, and IGES files, and passing corresponding meshes and other model information seamlessly into Thermal Desktop. In the Thermal Workshop 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 process can be used to automatically update the Thermal Desktop model.

The Thermal Workshop environment can also be extended to enable 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 process template, Thermal Workshop 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 Thermal Workshop while still working from within the familiar environment of Thermal Desktop. Thermal Workshop 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.