Fluent Inc. announces the release of Icepro 4.0. This model clean-up tool for electronics cooling analysis makes it easy to convert any CAD model into an efficient thermal model. Typically, CAD models are too detailed to be thermal modeling-friendly, so this conversion step is necessary and often tedious. Icepro 4.0 uses an intelligent and automated process to clean up CAD files and quickly make them suitable for thermal analysis in Icepak® electronics cooling software.

When it was conceived in 1999, Icepro was a handy model clean-up tool exclusively for Pro/ENGINEER® users. The new version of Icepro has the same name, but is decidedly different. Icepro 4.0, built on Parametric Technology Corporation’s GRANITE™ technology, is CAD-platform independent. This capability allows industry-standard files such as STEP, IGES, or SAT to be imported with the same efficiency as native Pro/ENGINEER files. Furthermore, Icepro 4.0 is now a stand-alone software module, eliminating the requirement to execute it from within Pro/ENGINEER.

Icepro 4.0 is easy to use and remember, thus reducing the users’ learning curve significantly. It imports files quickly and efficiently, automatically ordering each object on a model tree as the data is read into the Icepro module. Users can easily filter out unnecessary objects by name in the model tree. An automatic filtering capability based on object size is provided. Users can further fine-tune the processing by selecting the level of detail in the simplification process for individual CAD object or a group of CAD objects. The resulting Icepak objects can be further processed within Icepro to prepare the model for export to Icepak. The result is the rapid creation of an optimal thermal model that is ready for successful high quality thermal analysis in Icepak.

Pricing and Availability

Icepro 4.0 is now available worldwide through Fluent’s network of offices and distributors for an annual cost of $3,000 per seat.

About Fluent

Fluent is the world's largest provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services. Fluent's software is used for simulation, visualization, and analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. It is a vital part of the computer-aided engineering (CAE) process for companies around the world and is deployed in nearly every manufacturing industry. Using Fluent's software, product development, design and research engineers build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and existing designs, allowing them to improve design quality while reducing cost and speeding time to market. Fluent's corporate headquarters is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, with offices in Belgium, England, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, and Sweden. Its CFD software is also available around the world through joint ventures, partnerships, and distributors in Korea, Australia, Brazil, China, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Middle East, and most European countries.

Icepak is a registered trademark of Fluent Incorporated.

Pro/ENGINEER and GRANITE are registered trademarks of PTC, the Product Development Company™.

For more information, contact:

Jennifer Correa, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH 03766, 800-445-4454 Ext. 668, jrc@fluent.com