11.1.1. Source of Geometry

In order to be able to create secondary flow paths in TurboGrid, the geometry must be defined from a CAD source. TurboGrid has no support for creating secondary flow paths for geometry that is defined from profile points. For details on defining geometry in TurboGrid using these different sources of geometric data, see Geometry.

Note that BladeEditor can serve as a source of CAD geometry for TurboGrid. In particular, native BladeEditor blades (blades that were produced by the Blade or Splitter feature, without subsequent modification to the blade or splitter) with added 2D sketches of the secondary flow path(s) can be sent to TurboGrid as CAD data by making a cell connection in Workbench from the Geometry cell (that represents BladeEditor) to the Turbo Mesh cell (that represents TurboGrid).

To prepare the geometry in BladeEditor:

  1. Create line bodies for the sketches: at least one line body for each boundary entity that will be made in TurboGrid.

  2. Create Attributes (Tools > Attribute): as many as one for each line body; at least one for each boundary entity that will be made in TurboGrid.

    The Attribute Name property values (that is, the attribute text names) must be prefixed with "NamedSelection:". The remainder of the name is what will appear in downstream applications. Note: Unicode is not supported for names in TurboGrid. Set the attribute Geometry property by selecting edges from the defined wire bodies.