How it works
Six guided steps, one study, a result you can trust
Laminaro lives on its own tab in Inventor. You go through the steps in order, each one ticks green when it's done, and the CFD Tutor and the AI Checks are there when you want them.
STEP 1
Geometry
Tell Laminaro what the fluid is. For flow inside a part, pick the body that is the fluid. For flow around a part, Laminaro builds the air around it.
- Bodies that aren't part of the question can be excluded from the study.
- Works on the Inventor part you already have; nothing is exported by hand.
STEP 2
Boundaries
Click a face and say what it is. Inlets take a velocity or a flow rate, outlets a pressure, and the rest are walls unless you say otherwise.
- A fan goes on an opening or inside the part, from the fan curve on its datasheet.
- Hover any ticked step to see what's set, e.g. inlet 10 m/s, outlet 0 Pa.
STEP 3
Fluid & flow
Air or water at 20 °C. Laminaro picks the turbulence model from the Reynolds number and shows you why; you can change it.
- For wind on the ground: the basic wind velocity and the terrain's roughness, as in EN 1991-1-4.
- SI or US units, per part.
STEP 4
Mesh
Choose Draft, Standard or Fine, or slide to the cell count you want. Before you start you see the cells, the run time and the memory it will take.
- Standard is the right start for most studies.
- The upper limit follows the memory of the PC that solves.
STEP 5
Run
Start with a Quick look: a coarse, short run that catches a leaking fluid region or a wrong inlet before you wait for the real one. Then run it properly.
- Solve on this PC, or send the run to another PC in your office and keep working in Inventor.
- A run stops by itself when the key results are steady.
STEP 6
Post-processing
Four tabs: Check, Explore, Arrange and Report. Check gives the numbers with their ± and a plain verdict; Explore is the 3D view with cuts, colours, streamlines and vectors.
- Measure through a boundary, across a passage, or the force on a body. Every later run is measured the same way.
- Compare two runs side by side (A vs B).
Help that sits in the ribbon
The CFD Tutor, the AI Checks and the report
You don't need to know CFD. You need to know your part and your question.
CFD Tutor
A question box on the LaminaroCFD tab. Ask how to do something, or what a result means, in plain words. Answers come with the steps and a link that opens the right window.
AI Checks
Two reviews. At Run, a check of the set-up that only shows a card when it finds something. After the run, a review of the result under the verdict: is it settled, is the mesh fine enough, does the number make sense.
Advice only: you decide. Off with one tick in Settings.
Reports
PDF, Word or PowerPoint. The pictures you chose in Explore, the results with their ±, the set-up, the convergence, and a written summary.
Every run keeps its full OpenFOAM case folder, readable by anyone who knows OpenFOAM.
Your office, your hardware
Solve on this PC, or on another one
Any PC in your office can be the solver PC: a workstation that runs the jobs while you keep working in Inventor on your laptop. The solver PC needs no seat of its own.
How-to videos
Watch it done, step by step
Guided tours
The solved examples, explained
The same tours open inside Laminaro with each example.