samm vs. ICEM

Lars Ola Liavåg

ProAm from adapco appears to offer many advantages to STAR-CD users. I currently use ICEM Tetra/Prism in conjunction with the direct CAD interface to I-DEAS, and to be honest, I am relatively satisfied with this combination. However, all to frequently, I get frustrated over the many difficulties with generating prisms on my tetmeshes. If this step could be left out, I would probably cut my meshing time with two thirds - at least.

If anyone has experience with both ICEM and ProAm/samm, I would really appreciate to hear your opinions on the strong and weak points of the two softwares, however subjective they may be.

Thanks in advance.

Lars Ola