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Originally Posted by Gunman
Bull. If no one used wind tunnels, why is Windshear booked for months? Honda, an OEM las I checked, just invested $124million in a new tunnel.
Again, bull. We use a much more expensive suite of software, and are always working to make it more accurate. Part of that is correlating the CFD to the wind tunnel data.
At $210, per Autodesk, a year, that is CHEAP! The electric bill for the cooling system, for our CFD cluster, is bigger than that  |
Yep. Wind tunnel testing, clay modeling, and a lot of other things people think would be antiquated are still alive and well in the auto industry.
I'm not familiar with the autodesk program but if it is anything like inventor, it is probably complete garbage. The last one I used was the solidworks add on. I forget the name of it but it was capable of being run on a top of the line desktop computer costing several grand. You're probably looking at a minimum of 20 grand to get the computer and one of the usual software packages. Maybe even more. I used it for free through the college. Some can use it through work. I'm guessing this is what he did.