[HelplessWanderer]

Hi folks,

while my university has ANSYS-FLUENT at its disposal, it doesn't have any (CAD) Computer-Assisted-Design software (such as SOLIDWORK).
I am not even sure it has any preprocessing program dealing with the meshing of the spatial domain.

Do you know any free CAD-software compatible with ANSYS-FLUENT?

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers.

[BlnPhoenix]

To my knowledge FreeCAD can create geometry data, it can not create mesh data. If you don't have any meshing licence for ANSYS you would need a third program to do the meshing. FreeCAD however is compatible with most meshers as it can produce the usual output formats for meshing like .step or stl.

[gdimitris]

Originally Posted by HelplessWanderer

Hi folks,

while my university has ANSYS-FLUENT at its disposal, it doesn't have any (CAD) Computer-Assisted-Design software (such as SOLIDWORK).
I am not even sure it has any preprocessing program dealing with the meshing of the spatial domain.

Do you know any free CAD-software compatible with ANSYS-FLUENT?

Many thanks for your help.

Cheers.

If you're student you can download for free autodesk inventor. But there are other ways too to get other softwares,,, if you know what I mean

[HelplessWanderer]

Many thanks for your answer!

I need to design a closed hollow cylinder (depth: 150 mm, inner diameter: 24 mm, outer diameter 25 mm), that rotates at a very high rotation speed (1500 rpm).
Of course, I'll have to mesh it in an appropriate way.

I just realised I do have an access to Ansys Pre-processing but it is excruciatingly slow due to my remote connection.

What would be it the easiest way to go about it?

[ves]

We may use any CAD system if it save geometry file in Parasolid x_t format. x_t most compatible with different CFD preprocessors