So I have a wooden cabinet with thermocouples embedded into the wood. The cabinet is holding an oven. Using data acquisition, I've obtained an excel sheet logging the temperatures of each TC over time.
Currently I am using DIAdem 2012 and a .WRL mesh model exported from Solidworks where I can attach each column (each TC) to a point on the model id DIAdem and have it color code it.
HOWEVER, you can only create a sensor location for the thermocouple at the vertices of part of the mesh (triangles)... NOT on a flat surface. So in solidworks, I had created small cones at these locations to produce vertices, as well as doing large shallow pyramidal lofts.
Unfortunately the mesh geometry created seems to effect the propagation and interpolation of the temperature data.
Is there a better way to being doing this in DIAdem 2012? Or maybe another piece of software better suited for what I'm trying to accomplish.
Image HERE