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Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

Royce_adsk — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:12:03 GMT

Hello Autodesk CFD Community!

I had a recent post regarding where to learn more. I wanted to capture that list and make sure it stayed near the top of the forum so that we keep it a living list of resources. If I were to be learning Autodesk CFD from the start, this is the order I wish someone would tell me to follow. There is enough material here to fill a few years worth of diligent technical growth.

Essential Skills: Learn basic clicks and picks.
Self-Paced Training: Do the entire training! When I talk to customers or even when you look at the click through on the website many skip Units 3 and 4. Why? Because many customers get through model setup training and they want to do their work. Spend the the extra couple hours to learn how to review results and create multiple design in the tool to discover how to do what if's down the road. Some of the real power of the tool is in Units 3 and 4.
Basic Tutorials: Learn the basic model setup including some best practices. Fairly extensive list of simple models that represents a type of industry.
Industry Best Practices: This is for Electronics Cooling, LED Lighting, Turbo machinery, and Architectural Engineering. These are great reading and captures some tips, tricks, and tactics for specific industries.
Review of Physics: These are less tutorials and more a high-level best practices. Many of these have a compliment model in the basic tutorials. Read through these as you will learn some of the assumption for the specific physics, the gotchas that we help teach customer in support, meshing tips for the type of physics, what types of results are unique for this type of simulation, etc. Lots of great information here for those that want to learn at a deeper level.
Take a step back ... Review Design Automation: Learn how to make yourself more productive with the tool. Nobody enjoys assigning 200 heat loads one by one in a electronics model every time you have a design change. This will discuss how to automate that routine.
Watch our full length feature films with the Build your Simulation IQ Series: Here you will find a list of to date 92 recordings of live webinars hosted by the technical support team. You will be committing some time to watch all of them since they range from 30-60 minutes long. Find topics which are interesting and get comfortable. TONS of excellent information here from learning how to do external aero, scalar mixing, meshing, and on and on.
AU (Autodesk University) Classes
1. AU Workshops
2. AU Classes
  1. Here is Royce's on external aero!
  2. Intro class from @apolo_vanderberg
  3. Bit more interesting
YouTube: Find excellent material from customers and partners around the world.

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

Royce_adsk — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:44:31 GMT

Autodesk CFD learning material

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:16:32 GMT

Thanks for this information.

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

lucasliraAU — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:21:28 GMT

A Great Way to Understand Simulation Processes!

Thank you

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

jishee — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:33:20 GMT

How do we get the training files for the Self-Paced Fundamentals Training? The link provided does not work.

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

asif.ahmed.cr7 — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:20:42 GMT

Got some really good ideas about the simulation process.

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

bpjrpugh — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:39:57 GMT

When you install CFD under the Learn Tab the Start here or any learning buttons do nothing. VERY annoying

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

superviral.ca — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 06:32:31 GMT

It is really a helpful material to get new ideas about the simulation.

Regards

SuperViral

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

gaurvr — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:25:30 GMT

I wish to my book in this list as resource for beginners. Its Autodesk CFD 2023 Black Book. Attached is the sample PDF if you allow it.

Re: Extensive list of Training and Learning material for Autodesk CFD!

matthieu.griveletAH26V — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 08:05:53 GMT

The item number 6. from your list is... lacking.

First of all, the API programming references link is dead, and when I managed to get an older version (https://help.autodesk.com/sfdcarticles/attachments/CFD_API.zip), it lacks attributes/parameters lists for CFD specific functions.

Is it possible to have this updated ?