Hi Does someone use ICEMCFD 5.0 as a mesh generator? When I finished my model in structural hex grid, I want use its output fonction to convert my grid to CFX 5.7 compatible format. But I always can not success doing that. Who can teach me how to do it ?

Gary

Hi Gary,

I am now going with ICEM5.1 and CFX5.7.1 and the hex mesh generation of ICEM works well. I don't know what you problem really is, maybe you should pay some attention to the error message. By the way, ICEM5.1 seems to be better than ICEM5.0.

Twiti Originally, I installed ICEMCFD 5.1. But I found that ICEMCFD 5.1 can not convert its formats to some CFD solvers like CFDRC, ADINA...; it only can be transferred to ABAQUS, LS-DYNA...So, I removed ICEMCFD5.1 and install 5.0 again. In ICEMCFD 5.0, I can select different solver in "output" tag. While I have selected the solver, I do not know how to set the proper parameters in "BC" tag and "PAR" tag . Following its tutorial, there were always differences between tutorial and what I saw in my case. It's hard to keep practicing more. Anyway, Do you know the relation between the normals of surface and Hex grid formation ? Do I need to reverse each normals of surface toward the volume ?

You should modify shortcut for ICEM CFD 5.1 just add -cfd to the end of command line - it will start cfd version instead of fea (AI Environment). And everything will be OK. (or you can see shortcuts in ICEM 5.0 and modify 5.1 accordingly). Best regards.

Thanks , deLuther .

Gary