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• Hey JohnM, Thanks for pointing OpenFOAM out. I've used it quite a bit in the past as well and it works great. I've just found there aren't a lot of GUI options that offer the streamlined ease of use that MECWAY offers at a similar price point. I w…

  in Fluid Mechanics Support Comment by cmmcnamara May 2020
• @Victor I suppose it's not super slow when the setting on the device is maxed out. I used Quick Cube as a baseline and it takes about 3.5-4 seconds for full rotation and about 2 seconds for a full screen pass. I could just be picky, my normal work f…

  in Version 13 Beta Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• Did some minor testing last night with it and I am really liking the addition of the Spacemouse navigation option. Sensitivity seems fairly low, even when the mouse's settings itself are maxed but I may have just missed a sensitivity setting in MECW…

  in Version 13 Beta Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• @disla I think this may also be related to the RAM spec too. DDR3 has nearly half the bandwidth that DDR3 does if I recall correctly and may explain some of the difference as well.

  in Mecway PC benchmarks Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• @prop_design I agree. I was expecting much lower than that. I did my home workstation as well now, so that's all the PC's I have: SOLVER: CCX Pardiso 2.16 using 12 cores CPU: Intel Core i7 7800X @ 3.50GHz RAM: 32.00GB Corsair DDR4-3200 HD: Samsung…

  in Mecway PC benchmarks Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• Did another with my laptop: SOLVER: CCX Pardiso 2.16 using 4 cores CPU: Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz RAM: 16.00GB Kingston DDR4-2400 HD: Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD Run Time: 01:56

  in Mecway PC benchmarks Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• SOLVER: CCX Pardiso 2.16 using 10 cores CPU: Intel Core i9 9900K @ 3.60GHz RAM: 64.00GB GSkill RipJaws DDR4-3200 HD: Samsung 970 Pro 512 GB SSD Run Time: 01:19

  in Mecway PC benchmarks Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• Thanks for the overview Victor, I'll give that a try. As far as the *VIEWFACTOR card goes, I think this maybe called by the *RADIATE card when using the RxCR automatically but it's unclear to me from the manual.

  in Surface to Surface Radiation Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• @wolinski This is only available when using 1-D beam elements and the internal solver rather than CCX. You can add this to the post processing by right clicking Solution then selecting "New force and moment" then "bending moment (beams)" or "shear f…

  in Shear and Moment Calculation Comment by cmmcnamara March 2020
• tk1537 I do see what you’re saying. I do agree that I like MECWAYs environment for its GUI and would like the capability of accessing CCX’s other solver capability including surface to surface radiation and it’s CFD as well. CCX has a lot of apparen…

  in Non-linear diffusion calculaton Comment by cmmcnamara February 2020
• tk1537, I think you are correct that it would be nice for MECWAY to support this kind of behavior and I think it does in certain locations (eg, you can define BC's such as 5*sin(5*t) to vary with simulation time). It would be similar to how COMSOL a…

  in Non-linear diffusion calculaton Comment by cmmcnamara February 2020
• Hi, I don't think that MECWAY solves Fick's Law but Fick's Law is mathematically identical to Fourier's Law I believe (heat equation). MECWAY does seem to allow for temperature dependent thermal conductivity and specific heat so I think you could s…

  in Non-linear diffusion calculaton Comment by cmmcnamara February 2020
• Perfect, thank you very much Victor.

  in Help with Building a Material Database Comment by cmmcnamara May 2017
• Hi everyone, don't mean to barge in on a thread but this seems like a relevant post. Is the Plastic (CCX) material tab not active until a later version? I take it all plastic material properties for large deformation needs to be done at the moment …

  in plastics materials database Comment by cmmcnamara June 2016