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Introduction
Thermal Model Exchanger is an application that allows you to transfer thermal models between Thermal Desktop and Simcenter 3D. The application supports the transfer of the meshes, material and optical properties, and boundary conditions of your model.

User manual
- Introduction
  Thermal Model Exchanger is an application that allows you to transfer thermal models between Thermal Desktop and Simcenter 3D. The application supports the transfer of the meshes, material and optical properties, and boundary conditions of your model.
- Prerequisites and operating system
  Thermal Model Exchanger requires the installation of AutoCAD with Thermal Desktop. The Thermal Model Exchanger application uses the OpenTD Application Programming Interface (API) to exchange data between Simcenter 3D and Thermal Desktop. Since OpenTD only supports C#, Thermal Model Exchanger can only run on Windows.
- Thermal Model Exchanger user interface
- How to use Thermal Model Exchanger
- Simcenter 3D entities supported by Thermal Model Exchanger
- Thermal Desktop entities supported by Thermal Model Exchanger
- Assumptions and limitations for importing a model
  The following section describes the Thermal Model Exchanger assumptions and limitations when you import a Simcenter 3D model into Thermal Desktop.
- Assumptions and limitations for exporting a model
  The following section describes the Thermal Model Exchanger assumptions and limitations when you export a Thermal Desktop model to a Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal XML file.

Introduction

Thermal Model Exchanger is an application that allows you to transfer thermal models between Thermal Desktop and Simcenter 3D. The application supports the transfer of the meshes, material and optical properties, and boundary conditions of your model.