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(continued...) During the mesh generation process a dialog shows progress and statistics indicating the number of cells generated.
A tally of irregular cells indicates where any mesh problems have been encountered and results may be inaccurate.
Once the mesh is complete the solver runs with a multiple tabbed dialog.
Again progress is tracked together with graphs on the goals tab plotting each of the defined goals to indicate convergence.
On the preview tab a results plot is updated on a selected plane every ten iterations.
Right clicking inside the preview area allows the plot parameter such as pressure, temperature or velocity to be selected.
Once the pre-defined engineering goals have been achieved the solver stops.
After the monitor dialog is closed, results can be displayed directly in the SolidWorks windows.
Since the SolidWorks graphics area can be split into four panes, different results can be displayed simultaneously in each view.
The FloWorks tree in FeatureManager gives access to each of the result types.