Design Study Manager: Manage Geometry Changes

Use this procedure to manually implement geometry changes to a small number of designs. To automate a series of changes using CAD model instances, use the Design Study Builder.

1. In Autodesk® CFD, on the Design Study bar, right click on a Design, and click Clone. Assign a unique name to the new Design. Note that all scenarios of the Design are also cloned.

   

2. In the CAD tool, modify the geometry as needed, and launch into Autodesk® CFD.
3. On the Design Study Manager, and click the Update design study tab.
4. Select the new design from the list.
5. Click Update design.

These are the results of this procedure:

• A new Design is created containing the modified geometry
• The new Design contains all of the Scenarios from the original Design
• The settings in each Scenario are transferred to the new geometry
• Scenarios in the new design that had been run before they were cloned are marked with the Warning icon to indicate that the results do not match the model:

To change the geometry of an existing design, follow steps 2-5.

For an example of updating a design to incorporate a design change

Note: It is not possible to update a Design with a different kind of geometry. For example, it is not possible to update a Parasolid-based model with an Acis-based model.