How to postprocess Icepak AEDT results in CFD Post.

This article explains a workaround to postprocess Icepak AEDT results in Ansys CFD Post.



  1. You have to have a finished simulation or have had a clean stop. 
  2. Look for the results folders. 
  3. Inside the AEDT results folder, look for your Icepak project results folder. 
  4. Inside the results folder, look for a folder ending in .restart. 
  5. Inside the restart folder, look for the .nc_cas file and the .dat.h5 file. 
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  6. After identifying the files, open Fluent either in the standalone version or within the workbench.  
  7. Open only the case file and select the current .nc_cas file. If you try to open the case and data at the same time, it will give you an error. 
  8. After you open the .nc_cas file, read or import only the data file. 
  9. Check in Fluent if the temperature, velocity, or other results were imported correctly. 
  10. Save the Fluent files with a different name. 
  11. Finally, open the case file created in step 10 with CFD Post. 
  12. Postprocess your results.