The Mac port was strongly motivated by NASA customers who have begun using Macs for CFD meshing, postprocessing, and visualization. Mac OS X and Xserve provide a powerful and productive environment to handle the compute-intensive tasks and support workgroup data needs, while the Power Mac G5 is a desktop machine that people enjoy working with.

Dr. Craig Hunter, a CFD researcher in the Configuration Aerodynamics Branch at NASA Langley Research Center, has this to say about Gridgen and the Mac: "I look forward to Gridgen filling that critical need as a preprocessor tool, and enabling us to more effectively use our numerous structured grid flow solvers and other CFD tools on Mac OS X."

Gridgen V15.06 also features a significant extension of the software’s extrusion techniques for generating prism and hex layers. Complex surface mesh topologies consisting of structured (quad) and unstructured (tri) surface meshes can now be extruded simultaneously into hexes and prisms. Also, existing surface grids can be used as the boundary condition for a new extrusion. Adjacent extrusions can differ in height, but still match point-to-point along their common boundary. Taken together, these two additions greatly expand the scope of geometries for which extruded layers can be generated.

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