A CAD to CAE interface based on Scientific data format HDF

Abstract

Usage of various CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) software among students and researchers are very common nowadays. CAD systems are specialists for designing purpose and CAE systems are special for different engineering analyses (CFD, FEM and so on). CAD and CAE both software systems can be regarded as a mutually dependable software systems. Analysis without perfect modeling is unthinkable. For that reason, every CAE system has its own built-in CAD systems. Usually modeling is being done by that built-in CAD system and then models are sent for the CAE analysis. But, there is a problem lies in this process; built-in CAD systems of the CAE systems are not such efficient, in comparing with professional CAD systems for making complex designs quickly and precisely. There are many lacking in updated features in the built-in CAD system, if comparison is made with professional CAD systems. Therefore, it’s utmost necessary to make a bridge between the professional CAD systems to the professional CAE systems. In order to solve this problem different research has been made but each of these researches has its own drawbacks. Aim of this research is to shun all of those drawbacks by adopting a new method with help of scientific data format HDF. A scientific data format is used for versatile researches and wide varieties of computational work. Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) is such kind of powerful scientific data format, which can deal with very large datasets. HDF technologies address the problems of how to organize, store, discover, access, analyze, share and preserve data in the face of enormous growth in size and complexity. At the same time HDF can store and export any types of data. It was stated earlier that, a bridge is needed to be made between the CAD systems and the CAE systems. HDF can be regarded as the perfect tool to act as a bridge between the CAD system and the CAE system. Because, the whole process of integration involves d...