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Working with CAD

News | Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by

This week I will talk about CAD import. Many times, the first task a new user of COMSOL is up to is to lay their hands on the CAD models of the design team. After all, COMSOL handles the analysis, which needs to be closely tied with the design process. Ideally, design and analysis is integrated in one single process.

There are different ways to marry the CAD models with the analysis. File based import is maybe the most common method still: import CAD files to the COMSOL software. There is a number of file formats supported and you can read more about it here: http://www.comsol.com/products/cad/

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