The SmartCells™ based frontloading CFD approach will be elaborated in this paper. It has proven successful in a wide range of applications and is applied by OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive, aerospace and other industries. Several benchmark examples will be presented to illustrate the approach. The methodology described here ultimately enables the use of CFD in the design process by CAD engineers and automates tedious CFD meshing by an order of magnitude within common CAD environments and PLM workflows without compromising the resulting accuracy compared to typical traditional CFD solutions even with coarse meshes.