The ASML design engineers needed to use Flomerics' Flotherm software to be sure the higher power electrical components used to boost functionality within the AT:1100 would be effectively cooled in their housing. However, much of the intricate detail contained in production-quality Unigraphics 3D Solid Edge CAD files is of no significance to a thermal analysis; it simply slows the analysis without adding anything to its accuracy. The ASML CAD files were prepared with production in mind, thus FloMCAD was used to remove thermally insignificant details such as small depressions, holes and features that have no effect on airflow.

Flo/MCAD can read files from virtually any 3D solid modelling program via STEP, IGES and SAT formats. The powerful tool allows Designers to control exactly how much detail is retained for the thermal analysis, giving them the power to decide the complexity of the final data they receive. This is possible because very complex objects can be thermally modelled accurately with much simpler geometric shapes. A good example is a fan, which geometrically is very complex but in thermal terms can be displayed as a simple unit that pushes, pulls and swirls a set amount of air. By not modelling the individual blades, time can be saved analysing airflow without loss of accuracy.