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Fluid, thermal, noise and vibration analysis software
News Release from: Fluent | Subject: IcePro 3.1
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 01 November 2002
Enhanced thermal modelling for
Pro/Engineer users
IcePro 3.1 is a Pro/Engineer-to-Icepak interface from Fluent.
IcePro 3.1 is a Pro/Engineer-to-Icepak interface from Fluent The interface builds on the successful integration of CAD software and Icepak thermal modelling software
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 9 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the release of IcePro 3.1, Pro/Engineer geometry and materials are seamlessly available to Icepak.
"This release is a major advance in the CAD integration paradigm introduced in the previous versions of the interface.
Using a few configuration parameters, the user can export much of the model automatically.
Icepak can also be started directly from within Pro/Engineer to access the newly exported model", says Icepak Product Manager, Dr Rajesh Nair.
In addition to the capabilities available previously, the new interface also allows the user to automatically decompose complex geometries into prismatic shapes.
All of the manual features are still available.
IcePro 3.1 allows the user to export protrusion features and cut features on boundaries automatically to Icepak.
Complex shapes can be decomposed automatically for export into Icepak.
Simplification, the process of simplifying a model to ignore small geometry features, while including the larger thermally relevant features, has been made extremely easy, and thus dramatically reducing transfer time.
A new optional feature allows the Pro/Engineer assembly tree to be replicated in Icepak.
The hierarchy of information is maintained for the geometric shapes that are exported to Icepak.
The interface also applies sensible object recognition, as when recognising a pattern of fins to be modelled as a heatsink object, or modelling a pattern of holes or cutouts as a vent or planar resistance.
IcePro 3.1 is now available for Icepak users worldwide from Fluent for Windows NT/Windows 2000, HPUX and Solaris platforms only, for an annual licence fee of $2500.
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