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With a set of geometry creation and manipulation, CAD import, and mesh generation capabilities, CFD-GEOM provides meshes for ESI Group's CFD solver packages CFD-ACE+ and CFD-FASTRAN. It can also be combined with other CFD/FEA/CAE packages.

cheetahSTC takes CAD integration one step further and it creates a new higher order mesh definition, the Cell3 that is operated on as CAD geometry. It works inside Rhinoceros3D as a plug-in.

Construct2D is an open source preprocessor for building the computational structured grids around wing sections. It may also work for other shapes though. Basically it works on 2D but also has a limited 3D capability by extruding the 3D grid on z axis.

Femap is an advanced engineering simulation software program that creates finite element analysis models of complex engineering products and systems, and displays solution results. Femap also offers geometry creation and modification functions so you can make necessary model changes in preparation for finite element model creation.

GEMS has been developed as a geometry pre-processor for engineering analysis. It provides pre-processing to a range of CFD codes, from vortex-lattice to multiblock Navier-Stokes solvers.

Gridgen is Pointwise's legacy software, used by engineers and scientists worldwide since 1984 to reliably generate grids for CFD. Gridgen is being used to prepare geometry data for computer simulations of fluid flow and supports neutral, native, and defacto standard interfaces to CFD solvers (including the specification of solver boundary conditions), grid files, and geometry formats.

GridPro is an automatic object oriented multiblock grid generator based upon a topology engine. It provides modular parametric design.

HypGrid is a grid generator based on hyperbolic equation for orthogonality and cell area. The 2D grid generator can make C, H and O meshes. HypGrid3D is a 3D mulitblock hyperbolic grid generator based on equation for orthogonality and cell volume. It is used in connection with EllipSys3D solver.

ICEM CFD meshing software starts with CAD/geometry readers and repair tools to allow the user to progress to a variety of geometry-tolerant meshers and produce volume or surface meshes.

Kubrix BlockRanger is an interactive hexahedral grid generation plug-in for Rhino 5. It builds block-structured hexahedral meshes for Finite-Element, Finite Volume Analysis Computational Fluid Dynamics. Volume grids can be saved in the Abaqus, Ansys, CCFD, FLAC3D, I-DEAS, LS-DYNA, NASTRAN, PATRAN and VRML.

Pointwise provides hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. Also these meshes can be interfaced in several ways to form a hybrid grid. Using Pointwise geometry kernel, CAD data can be imported from native and standard formats, work with both analytic (i.e. NURBS) and faceted (e.g. STL) geometry representations. The mesh and its boundary conditions may be exported to open-source, commercial, and standard CFD formats.

TrueGrid is a mesh generator and pre-processor for FEA and CFD Analysis. All meshes are composed of block structured hex or quad grids. The TrueGrid projection method conforms the mesh to the shape of the geometry. This geometry can come from many sources including IGES, STL or Polygon data files, as well as other non-standard forms of geometry such as digital laser-scanned data.