The ANSYS viewer will display ANSYS Icepak documentation. See Accessing Online Help of the User's Guide.

Material property browsing with bubble help for quick verification of material properties. See Material Properties of the User's Guide.

Block object face highlighting to indicate sides with specified properties. See Display Options of the User's Guide.

Automatic update orthotropic material properties for move/rotate operations. See Editing an Existing Material of the User's Guide.

ANF files can now be imported for detailed printed circuit board and package modeling. See Importing Trace Files of the User's Guide.

Automatic creation of meshing plates including modifications to the plates using the Model layers separately option. See Importing Trace Files of the User's Guide.

Purge Inactive Objects option in the IDF Import dialog box. See Reading an IDF File Into ANSYS Icepak of the User's Guide.

Transient setup of models is now possible using CSV files. This capability enables import/export of all transient parameters including piecewise linear property curves using CSV files. See Displaying the Variation of Transient Parameters with Time of the User's Guide.

Network objects can now be imported and exported in CSV format. This aids in the quick editing of complicated networks. See Networks and Networks of the User's Guide.

CSV import/export capability has been enhanced to include import/export of geometric and non-geometric parameters.

Zero slack is allowed for non-conformal assemblies. See Non-Conformal Meshing Procedures for Assemblies of the User's Guide.

Solar load modeling is available. This capability allows users to automatically account for heat transfer at all surfaces due to solar loading. See Modeling Solar Radiation Effects of the User's guide.

A cluster-based ray tracing radiation model is now available. See Ray Tracing Radiation Modeling of the User's Guide.

CAD shapes are now available for grilles, openings, fans and walls. See CAD Objects of the User's Guide.

Delphi package characterization is available. This procedure allows users to automatically extract compact thermal models of packages. See Delphi Package Characterization of the User's Guide.

Enhanced heat transfer coefficient boundary conditions are available for block sides. See User Inputs for the Block Thermal Specification of the User's Guide.

Heat pipe macro is available. See Heat Pipes of the User's Guide.

Optimization for package and PCB geometries is available. See Meshing Options of the User's Guide.

Anisotropic or isotropic refinement is available for 2D multi-level meshing. See Meshing Options of the User's Guide.

Summary report now includes mesh option. This option allows users to report results on meshed areas of objects. See Summary Reports of the User's Guide.

Heat Flux Vectors are exported by ANSYS Icepak and can be read by CFD-Post. See Advanced Solution Control Options of the User's Guide.

Enhanced material libraries including new heat spreader materials.

New libraries including ALPHA heatsinks.

Option to include temperature secondary gradients for skewed meshes is available. This option improves accuracy of the solution to energy equation for skewed meshes. See Advanced Solution Control Options of the User's Guide.

ANSYS Icepak 13 supports both the Fluent FLEXlm and ANSYS FLEXlm license managers.

ANSYS Icepak workflow in ANSYS Workbench 13 allows the automatic export of ANSYS Icepak geometry from Design Modeler to ANSYS Icepak.

ANSYS Icepak data transfer occurs in ANSYS Workbench 13.0 from ANSYS Icepak to Mechanical.