Welcome to the Flow Design User Forum!

[hartogj]

Welcome to the Flow Design Forum!

Formerly known as Autodesk Project Falcon, Flow Design is a virtual wind tunnel app for product designers, engineers, and architects that models air flow around design concepts to help test ideas early in the development cycle.

This forum is a place where you can ask questions, share ideas, and learn about the product. In addition to the forums, you may also find these other resources useful:

Flow Design Online Help: http://www.autodesk.com/flowdesign-help

Searchable text and video based help documentation on how to use Flow Design

Flow Design IdeaStation: http://www.autodesk.com/flowdesign-ideas

The place to go to share your ideas and enhancement requests with the Flow Design development team

Account Management Page: https://accounts.autodesk.com/

Review and manage your account details, named users, and contract. Download the product installer.

Autodesk Store: http://www.autodesk.com/store/flow-design

If you don't have Flow Design, you can go here to get access.

Autodesk Education Community: http://students.autodesk.com

We are committed to our student users. If you qualify for educational use, you can get access here.

If you have any questions on the above or need help, be sure to use this forum. We've created it to support you wherever needed.

- Jon

[DarrenP]

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@hartogj wrote:

 Autodesk Store: http://www.autodesk.com/estore/global/en/flow-design.html?cq_ck=1387566369688

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this link does not work for me

[DarrenP]

is this where your the above link is supposed to go?

http://www.autodesk.com/store/flow-design

[hartogj]

Thanks. The stores are in the process of launching right now so that may explain what you are seeing.

Right now the US store can be accessed here: http://www.autodesk.com/store/flow-design

Thanks for the heads up.

Jon

[bethrogers449]

Nice information post thanks for the share...

[er_teclas]

fproject falcon had version for mac os x, but I see that no flow design. is planned to take a version for Mac users?. Thanks

[SIM360EVAL]

Yes, Falcon was available for Mac OSX for part of the labs program. For Flow Design, we are initially focusing on Windows due the fact there was far more interest in it within the labs community.

However we are continuing to monitor interest in the Mac version so let us know if you want to see it: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Flow-design-Ideastation/Add-support-for-Flow-Design-on-Mac-OSX/idi-p/4...

[youssef1955]

Hello,

Falcon (Flow design actually) works very nicely, to be really usefull a couple of enhancements are needed, otherwise it will be considered as a gadget. For architecture and urban planning for example :

1- topography of the area (i.e import an .stl file, or something else, containing the terrain)

2- porosity  for some elements (like trees)

3- take into account the friction velocity (assign materials to the objects and maybe to soil) to simulate wind gradients.

For the moment the wind tunel seem to be a wall but without wall conditions.

Anyway the product is very fine for a primary assessment and on simple Cases. Thanks for this easy to use and usefull product.

[er_teclas]

in usa store 36$ in europe 40€...??? why?

[hartogj]

Pricing is regional based on several factors, so you will see small variations depending on location by design. This goes for all products on the store. I don't have specifics on this particular comparison, unfortunately.

[umar.azhar]

Hi, I am having problem while designing a micro-fluidic channel in AutoCAD. Its like whenever I draw a circular or curvy channel of about 30 micron, the channel walls do not remain smooth. And when I manage to get the curves smooth, its like at saving and reopening the drawing, its back to the same irregular shape.

Please, advise.....

[hartogj]

I don't know the details of your application, but Flow Design is tailored for external airflow analysis. It isn't designed for microfuidics or channel flow applications. If you are having trouble creating the geometry you may be better off posing your question in the AutoCAD forum.

Jon

[StefanBuchberger]

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[bkkumaris4u]

Its great post and help me a lot. please keep continue posting. Thanks for sharing this nice info.

[stevebuttler125]

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