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[ThermalSamoyed]

Hi, I?m using icepak and am new to it. However going through the help files and google search I couldn?t find much details. My problem is several small geometry sources aren?t meshing. I?ve tried arranging the assembly priorities but then Ive gotten errors and the entire model won?t mesh. So I reverted back to the creation order.n1) I?ve changed the priority of those parts to be a lower value than the part it rests on. I plan to try multilevel meshing. However I don?t quite understand the priority of that. Will it mesh a level 2 prior to level 1? n2) I?ve also noticed from many video tutorial people don?t use plates to represent resistance from one part to like a board. Why is that? Wouldn?t the software just assume really good conduction when for example things could be bolted?nis there a website I can read more about meshing parameters as I felt the icepak mesh help section wasn?t that useful.n

[Rob]

Have a look here as the tutorials may help https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/prod_page.html?pn=Icepak&pid=Icepak&lang=en If you struggle with the link, read https://forum.ansys.com/discussion/22563/using-help-with-links this too. n

[Satyajeet Padhi]

Hi nI would recommend you to go over some of the tutorials available online to get more practice with Icepak. The tutorials can be found at https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/prod_page.html?pn=Icepak&prodver=20.2&lang=en nAfter you have completed working on some tutorials, please go back to the documentation. It will make more sense then. nSatyajeetn

[ThermalSamoyed]

thanks for responding. I?ve actually done about 85% of the icepak tutorials already. It didnt covered my issues. I was able to get the part to mesh by recreating the geometry in icepak vs creating it in design modeler -> simply to icepak body method.n