New Toys !

I've spent the last few days setting up 2 new MCAD (Mechanical CAD) PC's , and after a few licencing problems they are finally ready to use. One machine is for use by our Production dept and the other is for me , its a Dell Precision M6500 laptop ( http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/notebooks/precision-m6500/pd.aspx?refid=precision-m6500&cs=04&s=bsd )


I've also got some new software to use which I'm rather excited about , its a Computational Fluid Dynamics (see below for link to definition of CFD ) package called FloEFD.Pro by Mentor Graphics.
This will be used to analyse our new designs from both a fluid flow and thermal viewpoint, we will also be offering this facility as a service to our customers. I hope to be able to show you some of the work I'm doing with this over the coming months.

I've just run the first analysis on an assembly consisting of 2 PCBs stacked in a small plastic enclosure. I wanted to look at the thermal performance as the a couple of components have a fairly high heat dissipation. The results are correlating quite well with the physical testing we have been doing on the prototypes. I'll post some more detailed images when I've finished post processing the results, in the mean time here is an image to keep you going.



Links

Dell Precision M6500 laptop
http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/notebooks/precision-m6500/pd.aspx?refid=precision-m6500&cs=04&s=bsd

PTC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 4
http://www.ptc.com/products/proengineer/

Mentor Graphics FloEFD.Pro
http://www.mentor.com/products/mechanical/products/floefd/

Definition of CFD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics