Here is a newbie question if there ever was one. I have generated a mesh in ICEM but can't seem to import it to CFX-Pre. Both importing the .uns file as an "Ansys mesh", and importing the .in file (the Ansys simulation input file) as an "ICEM mesh" give errors. I am not using the Workspace. Also, the .in file is more than just the mesh, but I see no way to feed it to CFX. Can someone clarify this for me?

ICEM in CFX mode generates a .msh file which is imported into pre with the ICEM option.

Thanks for your response, Joe. I am not sure what you mean by CFX mode, but when I export the mesh from ICEM to "Ansys", I get a .in file (which cannot be read by CFX. The same happens when I do Solve Options/Write-View Input File, targetting the Ansys solver. I have never seen an .msh file output. I am completely confused?

Do the CFX specific tutorials in the ICEM manual

Make shure you select CFX as solver under the output tab, then export. This will produce a file with .cfx5 extension.

In CFX-Pre, go to mesh import and select "ICEM CFD" as source, then pick the .cfx5 file.

Done.

if you have cfx 10 you must use workbench to export to cfx

The Ansys mesh is related to the mechanical calculations. For CFX you have following possibilities: .msh, .cfx5 and .gtm.

Best way: Start up ICEMCFD, follow the menu Settings->Product and set the radio button to "Ansys ICEM CFD - CFX Version".

Then you have to restart ICEMCFD. Afterwards the Output register will have a new design and the button "Output to CFX" will automatically procduce a .msh file. These files can be imported in CFX as an ICEM file.

Good luck

Some basic questions:

Which version of ICEM are you using? Which version of CFX are you using?

What do you have in your ICEM license file? OUTPUT, AIOUTCFD, AIOUTCFX - any of these?