AFid is very useful for computational engineering processes where rules (such as mesh spacing) are associated to specific geometric shapes, even if they are not tagged or labelled in a model tree. In this example, over 700 mesh spacing rules (the colourful volumes of interest) are used repeatedly in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) process for aerospace drag reduction in a commercial airliner. Based only on a point cloud generated via tessellation from a CAD geometry, AFid is able to correctly find and apply all of the rules in under 2 minutes – 120x faster than an engineer.
