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The GrabCAD model is good, but even less up-to-date than this oneFt5fTL wrote: ↑13 Jan 2025, 19:18Happy new year everyone.
What i would like is obviously the new 2026 regs but i dont know if it is achievable in a reasonable short time. There is a grabcad post with the 2026 legality volumes but i dunno about how legit it is.
Apart from that, maybe updating bluecfd released to the 2024 build that uses OF12 if the change has any gains to us.
Edit: Ah Matteo beat me to it
Yes, switching to a new OF version is a must. OF now can run on windows using this Linux stuff but also in Docker. Not sure if blueCFD is still the way to go. I will find out though.
This is also something, we definitely need. This also includes checking the radius on our surfaces. With the tool you have developed, I am not sure how we could make it work. However, I think, it is possible in Blender. But at a minimum, we need to use your tool this year.
Would definitely be cool. Switching to a new OF version opens the door for that. We would not even need two sims. We could run on configuration and then use moving / rotating meshes to switch to the next configuration and then let the flow settle itself. But I think, if we get the big moves done for this year, this would be a goal for the next one.Koldskaal wrote: ↑14 Jan 2025, 00:44IMO it would be very cool to have active aero like the real cars. I imagine this would require two simulations per car, one in high downforce mode and one in low downforce mode. I know this will make a lot of things more complicated, but it seems too significant in the new regulations to ignore.
Thanks for reporting. Exporting an STL from the STEP I get the correct alignment in MFlow, but there might be something wrong in the STEP I shared. To be sure I ask @LVDH to confirm the problem (which will be fixed in the next release).
The shared model are referred to the november release fo F1 FIA rules: I could not find the PDF of decemeber update. Can you help me find the link on FIA website?
Happy new year all!CAEdevice wrote: ↑13 Jan 2025, 19:00Happy New Year, you will soon receive information on the 2024 awards.
For the moment I would like to share the CAD model of the legality volumes for MVRC 2025 regulations, which is inspired by (but not coincident with) the FIA F1 2026 rules (the differences concern both the volumes themselves and the management of the distance between the wheelbases and the dimensions of the safety cell, which in our case is fixed). These volumes will be used by the STAFF as a reference to write the rulebook.
The following first proposal is a R00 version: some details are missing, both because the final FIA F1 2026 rules are not yet fully defined, and because some volumes (e.g. front wing) will be simplified, as was the case for the MVRC 2024 regulations. The reason for releasing this preliminary draft is to involve the teams in the open source development and discussion of the geometry, without anyone being able to take advantage of it.
As you can see, unlike the FIA F1 regulations, I have prepared some common elements: extended safety cell, suspension, power unit, accessories.
CAD models MVRC R00: http://www.caedevice.net/SERVER/MVRC/20 ... RC_R00.zip
(Released with GNU GPLv2 license, no commercial use allowed).
http://www.caedevice.net/SERVER/MVRC/20 ... RC_R00.png
The ICE power will decrease from 640kw to 400kW, su I guess that cooling flow will be reduced (more ore less) proportionally (2.8 m3/s >>> 2.0 - 1.8 m3^2)
