Ansys Icepak Reviews

The ability to take any input and structural, thermal conduction, and thermal convection analysis all in one place. It is fast and requires minimum work.

The GUI is not user friendly. Needs a lot of work. It feels redundant sometimes. The look of it is poor and things are hard to look at.

I would reccomend this software to people for use.

Performance of various cooling techniques on circuit boards.

.In IcePak you have plenty of options to create or import your PCB

Sometimes the way that you want to do some changes in orientation or position of part the IcePak becomes hard to use

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Icepak results are accurate, i modelled PCB in Icepak and physically I measured board with infrared camera to see the difference in results, i see the temperature gradient is almost matching and temperatures are close to 2-3 Deg C. same i tried its great tool to support design. we can save time with tool for smaller problems. need to have some expertise to use it ease, once you get the interface its very good tool . Supporting Layout engineer in component placement by executing feasibility analysis for best thermal solution. we loved this tool.

user interface should be improved and tool tips are needed, this will help engineers to us the tool seamless. sometime the crashing and fluent solver is running. this needs to be improved. large models are always has issues with time vs machine. also meshing must be improved and import of meshing from other tools are needed to implemented soon. cost of tool must be lowered to suite the startups.

buy with parallel license, its saves time and buy machine.

i used to perform Rack or Cabinet level and board level thermal simulation and optimization. 30 KW Heat removal from a test setup with Liquid Cold Plates copper pipes vacuum brazed to a aluminum plate in 19inch rack. As inlet water at 30 Deg C. Design and Simulation, prototyping. Modeling done in SolidWorks and simulation done in Ansys Icepak was quick and results were helped to find the right paths and optimized designs.

Easy to use and very straightforward to use

maybe it is a bit annoying not being able to import CAD directly

Please consider using Icepak for any thermal management application you have. Its capabilities are really broad and the technical support and resources to master the product are amazing!

all kinds....from medical device application, to consumer electronics, to industrial applications I used Icepak for many years.

It can handle any kind of complex geometries, which is a very important feature. It can also do a faster problem solving as the solver it uses, is very robust. I have used it extensively and test results match the predicted simulation results.

Updating the design can be made more robust. Exporting CAD geometry from Icepak should be made more robust.

If you want to solve your thermal design problems, Ansys Icepak should be your first choice. One can surely say that future is going to be this software and no other thermal management tool. Highly recommended by our team.

We solve our customers thermal design problems with Ansys Icepak.

It helped me analyze easily & give appropriate result

There was no such thing to dislike. It was great throughout

If you're looking for easiest & fastest way to analyze beams / structure then ansys icepack is there for you

Sometimes i need to find out bending moment of particular structure.

The solver can solve complex simulation very fast and efficiently.

The GUI is outdated and not so intuitive compare to other ANSYS workbench products.

Proper training is essential before start using Icepak.

System thermal cooling simulation.

Easy to use. Includes user manual for new users

Little expensive. There is no online tutorial.

I do not have any recommendations. Thank you very much

I need to know temperature for a microchip which suppose to be incorporated into our electronic device. I find that out before building prototype.

Ansys icepak is very friendly to use and has a lot of features in modeling the different electronic boards and performing thermal simulations and other concepts of heat related problems.It will help in easy understanding of the effects of thermal behavior of components used in Simulations

Ansys icepak has a limited functionality when it comes to help window but there are user guides which have played greater role in understanding the basics of tool usage

Its a good tool to perform electronic simulations

I solve vehicle level simulation on ECU and cooling systems.

I have used this software in one of subject electronic packaging which involves various flow analysis and calculations for chip cooling. One of the best thing about this it gives more accurate results which gives perfect design model for your analysis. As engineer we are expected to get near perfect results in our project. I would like to mention one more thing about its user interface is really good, its very handy and easy to operate. I have seen may software with very complicated user interface.

There is nothing much to dislike about this software but I would like to add one more thing here. If we increasing mesh size it will take much longer time in normal computer than expected , but that is fine because It will give you more accurate results.

It was my part of syllabus for subject Electronic Packaging. I was using this software for couple of projects which helps me a lot to understand the subject in details and its importance in practical application for thermal flow analysis. I was analyzing the heat sink for various conditions to make design changes in it.