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Multiple Hole Cutting in Surfaces

In the past, cutting holes in surfaces with CFD-GEOM required a two step process; 1) pick the surface 2) pick the closed set of curves that forms the hole.  Not a bad process but in the case of having to cut with multiple holes this was quite inefficient since you could only cut one hole at a time.  Now you can cut hundreds of holes with a similar two step process; 1) pick the surface, 2) pick all curves or edges that may form holes.  CFD-GEOM will automatically determine the closed sets of curves that form holes and complete the hole cutting process.

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Figure 1.  Cut Hole(s) tool in CFD-GEOM

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Figure 2.  Geometry before cutting holes Figure 3.  Geometry after cutting holes

If you have any questions about this feature or would like us to discuss some other topic in the future, please let us know.

Regards,
Sajesh Giri
ESI CFD Support Team

 

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