Fusion 360 CFD

[BOGGAB]

Hello , I have been using Fusion 360 for a long time using it mostly as a CAD CAM tool for medical work. I also use the simulation tool you have added but I believe adding a fluid flow simulation module would prove to be an invaluable tool for designing vascular stents  . The simulation available in Fusion 360 is extremely useful to me as it is now , but I feel that if you add this tool it would add value to Fusion 360 , as flow simulation is required by many disciplines . It would also prove useful to those who simulate air flows around their 3d designs ( in order to see if their product is in any way aerodynamic ) .

[Anonymous]

I couldn't agree more.

Fusion 360 is great but it NEEDS a CFD component.

It really is my favourite CAD software to use but as an aeronautical engineering student nothing would help more. I've heard this from other classmates too, from electrical to mechanical engineering students, its always "I love using it but what's the point if I cant model airflow/pipe flow/pressure difference/shockwaves/Reynold's Numbers/etc.? I might as well stick to Inventor or other independent software."

[roambotics_scott]

As someone who worked in and taught HPC for a few years, I'd caution that making turnkey CFD is very difficult* and if you don't know what you're doing, you're more likely to get pretty pictures / videos that give you the wrong idea than anything.

To be done well (especially in a product like F360), the software needs to know enough physics to know when and how to setup specific types of boundaries and solvers.

It's totally doable, but not something that should just be tacked on - especially if it's going to need to cover multi-physics, multi-scale simulation, and accelerating flows.

Most people don't even know what the Reynolds number is, but that dictates what kind of solver would be appropriate (and if you pick the wrong solver, you end up with pretty garbage)

* far more so than FEA and NMA which are already built into Sim

[Anonymous]

I am also looking for CFD ...

[Anonymous]

CFD would be a great addition, it would be phenomenal to see in unison with the T-spline shapes and voxel modelling. 

Great stuff guys,

[Anonymous]

I basic CFD function would be very good for Fusion 360. It would also be nice to integrate thermal into it as well.

[roambotics_scott]

Can't repeat enough that CFD is hard and should be done with great caution if at all, but doing thermal well and giving useful / non-misleading results is pretty feasible and would be very useful for mechatronics