Course Catalog

Introductory Training Options

CRTech offers live online training on a regular schedule. See our Product Training page for schedules and prices.

You can also request in-person training at your facility or online training exclusively for your organization. Contact us for a quote. When requesting in-person training at your facility, you may select any combination of the classes below for up to four consecutive days. The hosting organization is responsible for supplying a training room and computers.

In-person training: In-person classes are an immersive experience. Since in-person training is held in a classroom, outside interruptions are minimized allowing for improved comprehension. The classroom experience also allows for open discussions and community building among the students and instructor. CRTech prefers to stay under a 12:1 student to instructor ratio.

Online training: Online classes provide lectures and demonstrations only. While the durations of the online classes are less than the in-person classes, you are expected to work on the tutorials outside of class time. The training materials are provided electronically. Students should have access to computers and the software.

Training classes are taught using the currently released version of our software. For online classes, students who cannot access the currently released version can work through the tutorials installed with earlier versions of the software but may not have access to the tutorials discussed in the training.

Introduction to C&R Thermal Desktop® - Geometric Thermal Modeling and Solutions

Lectures, demonstrations, and self-paced tutorials are used to introduce students to basic Thermal Desktop usage and provide practice building models and interpreting results using Thermal Desktop as a stand-alone analysis environment. For in-person classes, participants may bring flash drives containing their own NASTRAN, IGES, or DXF/DWG files for assistance as time permits.

For the online classes, the schedule is:

• Day 1 - Introduction to the user interface, running solutions, postprocessing, and basic thermal networks
• Day 2 - Building models and making thermal connections
• Day 3 - Parameterizations and customizations

Introduction to RadCAD® - Thermal Radiation Analysis

Lecture, demonstrations, and self-paced tutorials are used to introduce attendees to basic RadCAD usage and provide practice building models and interpreting results. RadCAD performs surface-to-surface and environment-to-surface radiation calculations.

Introduction to FloCAD® - Flow Modeling in Thermal Desktop

Lecture, demonstrations, and self-paced tutorials are used to introduce attendees to basic FloCAD usage and provide practice building models and interpreting results. FloCAD provides the key to unlock the power of advanced FLUINT modeling within Thermal Desktop.

Single-phase modeling will be emphasized, while two-phase modeling webinars are available separately on our video page once single-phase techniques have been mastered. 

Introduction to CRTech TD Direct® - CAD Mark-up and Advanced Meshing

Lecture and demonstrations are used to introduce students to ANSYS SpaceClaim's easy direct modeling CAD interface and advanced meshing tools in TD Direct. Self-paced tutorials are used for hands-on experience. For in-person classes, students may work with their own CAD geometry brought on flash drives as time permits.